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 …

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 book explores the nature and purposes of formulaic language, examining patterns
across research from the fields of discourse analysis, first language acquisition, language …

We report the results of a large-scale picture naming experiment in which we evaluated the
potential contribution of nine theoretically relevant factors to naming latencies. The …

Pictures are often used as stimuli in studies of perception, language, and memory. Since
performances on different sets of pictures are generally contrasted, stimulus selection …

Early learned words are recognized and produced faster than later learned words. The
authors showed that such age of acquisition effects are a natural property of connectionist …

Previous research on the effects of age of acquisition on lexical processing has relied on
adult estimates of the age at which children learn words. The authors report 2 experiments in …

Ratings of age of acquisition (AoA), imageability, and familiarity were collected for 1,526
words. The methodology made use of a modular approach, in which the full sample of words …

The processes required for object naming were addressed in a study of patients with
semantic dementia (a selective decline of semantic memory resulting from progressive …

We present new Spanish norms for object familiarity and rated age of acquisition for 140
pictures taken from Snodgrass and Vanderwart (1980), together with data on visual …