Despite the abundance of research investigating general and academic vocabularies and developing dozens of word lists, few studies have compared academic vocabulary with general service word lists such as conversation vocabulary. Many EAP researchers assume that university students need to know all the words in West’s (1953) General Service List (GSL) as a prerequisite to academic words (e.g., ...

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...

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 article reports on two studies investigating the effect of contextual variables on young children’s language use in conversation. In Study 1, 20 children between age 1;5 and 2;2 were recorded in conversation with their mothers in three settings: mealtime, toy play, and book reading. In Study 2, 16 children between age 1;9 and 3;0 were recorded in dyadic toy play interaction with three diff...

SRI collected a corpus to study how spontaneous speech differs from other types of speech. The corpus was collected in two parts: (1) a spontaneous Switchboard-style conversation on an assigned topic, and (2) a reading session in which participants read transcripts of their conversation from part 1. Experiments were conducted on sentences with identical transcripts that varied in speaking style...

The aim of this study is to explore the impact of technology-mediation courses into Japanese learning effect. The subjects are vocational college students. The study used quasiexperimental design, whether to import e-pen and internet learning strategies in accordance with the Japanese curriculum. There was a pretest and posttest on Japanese vocabulary and conversation. We found that technology-...

To tackle the vocabulary problem in conversational systems, previous work has applied unsupervised learning approaches on co-occurring speech and eye gaze during interaction to automatically acquire new words. Although these approaches have shown promise, several issues related to human language behavior and human-machine conversation have not been addressed. First, psycholinguistic studies hav...

To tackle the vocabulary problem in conversational systems, previous work has applied unsupervised learning approaches on co-occurring speech and eye gaze during interaction to automatically acquire new words. Although these approaches have shown promise, several issues related to human language behavior and human-machine conversation have not been addressed. First, psycholinguistic studies hav...

The elements of the common vocabulary (e.g. words) are quickly known by all participants of a conversation. It was possible to extend on the web the vocabulary effectively by HTTP URLs, because their content is quickly viewable. A further extension is possible, which is powerful but not used up to now: Elements (vectors) of metric spaces, identified by a HTTP URL plus a sequence of values, wher...