This paper concerns the influence of age of acquisition (AoA) in word reading and other
tasks, and attempts to develop a number of issues raised by Zevin and Seidenberg (2002) …

An important determinant of picture and word naming speed is the age at which the names
were learned (age of acquisition). Two related interpretations of these effects are that they …

It is a striking fact that in humans the greatest learning occurs precisely at that point in time-
childhood-when the most dramatic maturational changes also occur. This report describes …

Young and old adults were shown pictured or written verbs and asked to name them as
quickly as possible. Simultaneous multiple regression was used to investigate which of a set …

The focus of this study was on developmental reserve capacity in old age as revealed by
testing-the-limits. We examined (a) the time course of training-related magnification of age …

This chapter describes a detailed theory of perception, production and memory for language
and applies it to the problem of cognitive decline in old age. Altering a single parameter in …

Upon fast mapping, children rarely retain new words even over intervals as short as 5 min. In
this study, we asked whether the memory process of encoding or consolidation is the …

Four experiments explored the age of acquisition effects in the first and second languages of
dominant Spanish-English bilinguals. In Experiment 1 (picture naming task) and Experiment …

This paper reports four experiments on the effects of word age of acquisition in verbal tasks.
In all cases, multiple-regression analysis was used to assess the relative effects of age as …

Recent studies have suggested that age of acquisition (AoA) has an impact on skilled
reading independent of factors such as frequency. This result raises questions about …