Corpus-based age of word acquisition: Does it support the validity of adult age-of-acquisition ratings?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F22%3A10446959" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/22:10446959 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/68081740:_____/22:00564446
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=CH_uJehY1v" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=CH_uJehY1v</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268504" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0268504</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Corpus-based age of word acquisition: Does it support the validity of adult age-of-acquisition ratings?
Original language description
Age of acquisition (AoA) is presumed to reflect the age or relative order in which words are learned, but is often measured using adult ratings or adult-reported observations and might thus reflect more about the adult language than about the acquisition process. Objective AoA estimates are often limited to words whose referents can be shown in pictures. We created a corpus-derived AoA estimate based on first word occurrences in a longitudinal corpus of child English, and evaluated its reliability and validity against other measures of AoA. Then we used these different measures as concurrent predictors of adult lexical decision times. Our results showed adequate reliability and good relations with other AoA measures, especially with parent-reported AoA (r = 0.56). Corpus AoA did not predict unique variance in lexical decision times, while adult AoA ratings and parent-reported AoA did. We argue that this pattern is due to two factors. First, the adult AoA ratings and parent-reported AoA are confounded with adult memory, lexical processing and reading difficulty variables. Second, the adult AoA ratings are related to actual age of acquisition only for words acquired during later preschool and school age. Our analyses support the utility of corpus-derived AoA estimates as an objective measure of acquisition age, especially for early-acquired words.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-15576S" target="_blank" >GA19-15576S: Predictive and adaptive processes in children’s language</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
PLoS One
ISSN
1932-6203
e-ISSN
1932-6203
Volume of the periodical
17
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
40
Pages from-to
"nestránkovano"
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85130953500