Aphasia and age of acquisition: are early-learned words more resilient?

M Brysbaert, AW Ellis - Aphasiology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Aphasia patients can produce some words reliably but have difficulty retrieving
other words. In this article we review one of the variables that have been proposed to …

Age of acquisition of 299 words in seven languages: American English, Czech, Gaelic, Lebanese Arabic, Malay, Persian and Western Armenian

M Łuniewska, Z Wodniecka, CA Miller, F Smolík… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
We present a new set of subjective Age of Acquisition (AoA) ratings for 299 words (158
nouns, 141 verbs) in seven languages from various language families and cultural settings …

The Croatian psycholinguistic database: Estimates for 6000 nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs

A Peti-Stantić, M Anđel, V Gnjidić, G Keresteš… - Behavior research …, 2021 - Springer
Psycholinguistic databases containing ratings of concreteness, imageability, age of
acquisition, and subjective frequency are used in psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic …

Character amnesia in Chinese handwriting: a mega-study analysis

S Huang, Y Zhou, M Du, R Wang, ZG Cai - Language Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Handwriting has been largely replaced by typing in modern days, leading to a decline in
handwriting literacy (eg, character amnesia), especially in non-alphabetic scripts such as …

The hunt for the age of acquisition effect: It's in the links!

JC Catling, MM Elsherif - Acta Psychologica, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Age of Acquisition (AoA) effect is such that words acquired early in life are
processed more quickly than later-acquired words. One explanation for the AoA effects is the …

What lexical factors drive look-ups in the English Wiktionary?

R Lew, S Wolfer - SAGE Open, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This study aims to establish what lexical factors make it more likely for dictionary users to
consult specific articles in a dictionary using the English Wiktionary log files, which include …

Italian age of acquisition norms for a large set of words (ItAoA)

M Montefinese, D Vinson, G Vigliocco… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Age of acquisition (AoA) is an important psycholinguistic variable that affects the
performance of healthy individuals and patients in a large variety of cognitive tasks. For this …

On the tip of the pen: Effects of character-level lexical variables and handwriter-level individual differences on orthographic retrieval difficulties in Chinese handwriting

S Huang, W Lin, M Xu, R Wang… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
In the past few decades, Chinese speakers have suffered from difficulties in handwriting,
which include tip-of-the-pen (TOP) states (knowing a character but failing to fully handwrite …

When phonological neighborhood density both facilitates and impedes: Age of acquisition and name agreement interact with phonological neighborhood during word …

H Karimi, M Diaz - Memory & Cognition, 2020 - Springer
The number of similar-sounding words that a target word has, or its Phonological
Neighborhood Density (PND), has been shown to influence word production. However …

Obsolescence effects in second language phonological networks

EM Luef - Memory & Cognition, 2024 - Springer
Phonological networks are representations of word forms and their phonological
relationships with other words in a given language lexicon. A principle underlying the growth …