We examined the potential advantage of the lexical databases using subtitles and present SUBTLEX-PT, a new lexical database for 132,710 Portuguese words obtained from a 78 million corpus based on film and television series subtitles, offering word frequency and contextual diversity measures. Additionally we validated SUBTLEX-PT with a lexical decision study involving 1920 Portuguese words (and ...

PURPOSE This study examined the effect of socioeconomic status (SES) on the early lexical performance of African American children. METHOD Thirty African American toddlers (30 to 40 months old) from low-SES (n = 15) and middle-SES (n = 15) backgrounds participated in the study. Their lexical-semantic performance was examined on 2 norm-referenced standardized tests of vocabulary, a measure of ...

The words in children's language learning environments are strongly predictive of cognitive development and school achievement. But how do we measure language environments and do so at the scale of the many words that children hear day in, day out? The quantity and quality of words in a child's input are typically measured in terms of total amount of talk and the lexical diversity in that talk....

understanding of the language of the qur'an is needed for     recognition of the names and attributes of allah. language         of the quran is not equal with the language of religion which             has originated from christianity world. language of the            qur'an and imams speeches do not have one aspect, so that it            can be understood perfectly via lexical princ...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a conversation intervention including 500 min of linguistically and cognitively complex talk on the expressive vocabulary growth of prekindergarten children. Method: Children (N = 73) were randomly assigned to control or a 10-week experimental intervention condition. Twice weekly, children in the intervention condition rec...

This paper describes a new experimental system, the Automated Deception Analysis Machine (ADAM), that was used to conduct automated, chat-based interviews and perform deception detection of the text-based responses. 108 participants were interviewed by this new chatbot agent and they provided 3,162 chat-based responses. Several new metrics were discovered that highly correlate to deceit. ADAM c...

Statistical learning paradigms traditionally use transitional probabilities as a measure of statistical distribution within a language. The current study suggests that alternative metrics may exist that can account for differences in language processing ability. Two primed lexical decision tasks are used to examine the effects of bigram frequency and diversity on speed and accuracy of word reco...

RESEARCH FINDINGS The roles of child lexical diversity and maternal sensitivity in the development of young children's inhibitory control were examined in 100 low-income Hispanic Spanish-speaking children. Child communication utterances at age 2½ years were transcribed from 10-min mother-child interactions to quantify lexical diversity. Maternal behavior was rated independently from the interac...