Connected with various resurgent and decolonizing projects, Canada has seen a surge of renaming Indigenous land acknowledgement, which draw attention to territories that have been overwritten through colonial naming practices. While practices acknowledgments are contested for having merely representational effects, they may also be linked efforts. Our paper explores subversive (re)naming afford...

Objectives: Nouns and verbs are the central conceptual linguistic units of language acquisition in all human languages. While the noun-bias hypothesis claims that nouns have a privilege in children’s lexical development across languages, studies on Mandarin and Korean and other languages have challenged this view. More recent cross-linguistic naming studies on children in German, Turkish,...

The present paper attempts to establish the motives behind baby‑naming trends and parents’ choices in recent years (2018–2021). It also aims repertoire of names children aged 0–2 collected by means a questionnaire created for purposes this research study. repertoires female male children’s were compared with those their parents’, which allowed determining differences presenting changes naming o...

We report performance measures for lexical decision (LD), word naming (NMG), and progressive demasking (PDM) for a large sample of monosyllabic monomorphemic French words (N = 1,482). We compare the tasks and also examine the impact of word length, word frequency, initial phoneme, orthographic and phonological distance to neighbors, age-of-acquisition, and subjective frequency. Our results show...

Objective We tested the claim that age-related increases in knowledge interfere with word retrieval, leading to word finding failures. We did this by relating a measure of crystallized intelligence to tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) states and picture naming accuracy. Method Participants were from a large (N = 708), cross-sectional (aged 18-88 years), population-based sample from the Cambridge Cent...

Introduction: Word retrieval problems are among the limitations observed in children with specific language impairment during the initial schooling years. These restrictions are predictive of reading problems and poor performance at school. Additionally, studies on lexical access in Persian speaking children are scarce. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate and compare naming accuracy and ...