abstract vocabulary developmentExtensive research has shown that children's early words are learned through sensorimotor experience. Thus, early-acquired words tend to have more concrete meanings. Abstract word
Abstract Word learning is a notoriously difficult induction problem because meaning is underdetermined by positive examples. How do children solve this problem? Some have argued that word learning is achieved by means of inference: young word learners rely on a number of assumptions that reduce the ...
According to Ehri’s phase theory of reading development, learning to decode is a connection-forming process in which the spelling patterns of words become tightly bonded with their pronunciations. These unitised representations are retained in memory, supporting efficient visual word recognition and ...
Abstract This study uses corpus critical discourse analysis to examine the reporting strategies and affective attitudes of Malaysian media towards Chinese modernization. The analysis is based on 192 related news reports and aims to reveal how Malaysian media interpret and construct the discourse of ...
Chapter 12, byHedde Zeijlstra, is on word classes in Minimalist Syntax.The starting point here is that grammatical rules are not sensitive to word classes or grammatical categories per se, but rather to the abstract features underlying them. Zeijlstra discusses a number of theoretical proposals, ...
Abstract Keywords 1. Introduction 2. Study 1: Fast mapping, retention, and generalisation of novel words in children with ASD and typical development 3. Study 2: The effect of feedback on word learning in children with ASD and typical development 4. General discussion Conflict of interest Acknow...
Abstract Culture is a part of language and plays a very important role in language teaching. In recent years, the relationship between language and culture has become a key subject in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. English teachers should not only teach language knowledge, but also cultu...
A root is the base form of a word that cannot further be analyzed without total loss of identity. That is to say, it is that part of the word left when all the affixes are removed. In the word internationalism, after the removal of inter-, -al and -ism...
。 A large proportion of polysemic words of modern English have their meanings extended sometimes in the course of development. Some words are generalized to such an extent that they can mean almost anything. Word old meaning now meaning
Abstract Access to semantic information of visual word forms is a key component of reading comprehension. In this study, we examined the involvement of the visual word form area (VWFA) in this process by investigating whether and how the activity patterns of the VWFA are influenced by semantic ...