Imageability and Neighborhood Density Facilitate the Age of Word Acquisition in Czech

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68081740%3A_____%2F19%3A00509247" target="_blank" >RIV/68081740:_____/19:00509247 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://pubs.asha.org/doi/pdf/10.1044/2018_JSLHR-L-18-0242" target="_blank" >https://pubs.asha.org/doi/pdf/10.1044/2018_JSLHR-L-18-0242</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2018_JSLHR-L-18-0242" target="_blank" >10.1044/2018_JSLHR-L-18-0242</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Imageability and Neighborhood Density Facilitate the Age of Word Acquisition in Czech

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Purpose: The study examined the effects of imageability and phonological neighborhood density on the acquisition of word production in Czech, controlling for part-of-speech class, word length, and word frequency. Phonological neighborhood density is of interest because previous research has not examined highly inflected languages such as Czech. The effects of imageability on word acquisition are widely assumed, but only a few empirical studies examined such effects using child data directly. Method: Data from the Czech norming study of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (Smolík, Turková, Marušincová, & Malechová, 2017) adaptation were used, and all nouns and action words in the data set were examined (total 359). Based on the norming sample of 493 children, the expected age of acquisition was calculated. Results: A small but significant effect of neighborhood density (explaining 1.5% of unique variance) was found, as well as a robust effect of imageability (9% of unique variance). Imageability also accounted for the difference between nouns and verbs in the age of acquisition. Conclusion: Imageability is a robust predictor of word age of acquisition that should be taken into account in future studies. The identifiability of the referent and the memory mechanisms are likely responsible for the strong imageability effect. Words with large phonological neighborhoods are acquired earlier, even in a language with complex inflectional morphology.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Imageability and Neighborhood Density Facilitate the Age of Word Acquisition in Czech

Popis výsledku anglicky

Purpose: The study examined the effects of imageability and phonological neighborhood density on the acquisition of word production in Czech, controlling for part-of-speech class, word length, and word frequency. Phonological neighborhood density is of interest because previous research has not examined highly inflected languages such as Czech. The effects of imageability on word acquisition are widely assumed, but only a few empirical studies examined such effects using child data directly. Method: Data from the Czech norming study of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (Smolík, Turková, Marušincová, & Malechová, 2017) adaptation were used, and all nouns and action words in the data set were examined (total 359). Based on the norming sample of 493 children, the expected age of acquisition was calculated. Results: A small but significant effect of neighborhood density (explaining 1.5% of unique variance) was found, as well as a robust effect of imageability (9% of unique variance). Imageability also accounted for the difference between nouns and verbs in the age of acquisition. Conclusion: Imageability is a robust predictor of word age of acquisition that should be taken into account in future studies. The identifiability of the referent and the memory mechanisms are likely responsible for the strong imageability effect. Words with large phonological neighborhoods are acquired earlier, even in a language with complex inflectional morphology.

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CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA16-15123S" target="_blank" >GA16-15123S: Mentální zpracování gramatické a sémantické informace u českých dětí</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research

ISSN

1092-4388

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

62

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

5

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

13

Strana od-do

1403-1415

Kód UT WoS článku

000469202500015

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85066919861