The dissociation between age of acquisition and word frequency effects in Chinese spoken picture naming

Author(s):  
Qingfang Zhang ◽  
Yuxi Zhou ◽  
Hao Lou
1994 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith P. Goggin ◽  
Patricia Estrada ◽  
Ronald P. Villarreal

ABSTRACTName agreement in Spanish and English in response to 264 pictures was assessed in monolinguals and in bilinguals, who varied in rated skill in the two languages. Most of the pictures were adapted from a standardized set of line drawings of common objects (Snodgrass & Vanderwart, 1980). Name agreement decreased as language skill decreased, and agreement was lower when labels were given in Spanish rather than in English. The relationship between name agreement and word frequency, word length, and (in the case of English) age of acquisition was assessed; both word frequency and word length were found to be related to agreement. Modal responses given by monolingual subjects were nearly identical in the two languages, and the types of non-modal responses were affected by both naming language and language skill.


NeuroImage ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 1212-1220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Grande ◽  
Elisabeth Meffert ◽  
Walter Huber ◽  
Katrin Amunts ◽  
Stefan Heim

2003 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catriona M. Morrison ◽  
Katherine W. Hirsh ◽  
Geoffrey B. Duggan

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 of potential variables predicted naming speed. Age of acquisition was found to be an important predictor of naming speed in both young and old adults, and for both word and picture naming. Word frequency predicted picture-naming speed only in older adults and failed to make any significant contribution to word-naming speeds for either group of participants. The respective loci and roles of age of acquisition and frequency in lexical processing are discussed in the light of these findings.


2001 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 350-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Barry ◽  
Katherine W. Hirsh ◽  
Robert A. Johnston ◽  
Catherine L. Williams

2001 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 469-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Bonin ◽  
Michel Fayol ◽  
Marylène Chalard

1973 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
John B. Carroll ◽  
Margaret N. White

In multiple-regression analysis of picture-naming latencies from an experiment modelled on Oldfield and Wingfield's (1965), with 94 stimuli and 37 adult subjects, two word frequency measures had insignificant beta weights, while two measures estimating age at which the word was learned had highly significant weights. Objects whose names were learned early were named faster. This result may have important implications for the interpretation of studies using word frequency as a critical variable. It is suggested that word retrieval may be a one-stage process that depends upon the age at which a word was learned.


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