Abstract Words and pictures with earlier learned labels are processed faster than words and
pictures with later learned labels. This age-of-acquisition (AoA) effect has been extensively …

A language learner trying to acquire a new word must often sift through many potential
relations between particular words and their possible meanings. In principle, statistical …

Age of acquisition (AoA) refers to the age at which people learn a particular item and the
AoA effect refers to the phenomenon that early-acquired items are processed more quickly …

This paper reviews research concerned with word age-of-acquisition (AOA) effects in adult
word recognition and production. Methodological issues, including the use of multiple …

We investigate how the mental lexicon changes over the life span using free association
data from over 8,000 individuals, ranging from 10 to 84 years of age, with more than 400 cue …

There are an infinite number of possible word-to-world pairings. One way children could
learn words at an early stage is by computing statistical regularities across different …

The investigation of a patient with a selective impairment of phonological short-term memory
has recently provided evidence that this system may be involved in long-term learning of …

Research suggests that word learning is an extended process, with offline consolidation
crucial for the strengthening of new lexical representations and their integration with existing …

Age of acquisition (AoA) has been reported to be a predictor of the speed of reading words
aloud (word naming) and lexical decision, with early‐acquired words being responded to …

The combined contributions of word age of acquisition (AoA) and word frequency (rated and
objective) to word retrieval speed and accuracy were investigated, using a picture-naming …