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The role of input frequency in lexical acquisition
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The influence of frequency of occurrence in input upon early lexical acquisition was examined within an experimental paradigm. Twelve children (1; 0·21 to 1; 3·15) were presented with 16 contrived lexical concepts, each involving a nonsense word and four referents, over ten experimental sessions. Within each concept two exemplars were presented frequently and two were presented infrequently. Overall the children named more frequently presented exemplars than infrequently presented exemplars. However, when the absolute number of presentations was held constant, distributed (infrequent) presentations led to greater acquisition than massed (frequent) presentations.
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“Thus their finding that the high-frequency words were correctly recalled significantly more often than low-frequency words (a finding that held for both nouns and verbs) cannot realistically be attributed to any factor other than input frequency”
From The ubiquity of frequency effects in first language acquisition (2015) · cites this paper as Schwartz and Terrel (1983)
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- Authors
- Schwartz, R. G., & Terrell, B. Y.
- Affiliations
- Purdue University West Lafayette (US)
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- ORCID
- Schwartz, Richard G.
- Venue
- Journal of Child Language
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1983-02
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 57-64
- ISSN
- 0305-0009 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-7602
- OpenAlex
- W2016691542
- Cited by
- 120
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 27 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 4.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Child Language (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Keywords
- vocabulary acquisition, input frequency, frequency of occurrence, distributed practice, massed practice, early vocabulary development, child language acquisition, nonsense words
- MeSH terms
- Concept Formation, Female, Humans, Infant, Language Development, Male, Semantics, Speech Perception, Verbal Behavior, Verbal Learning, Vocabulary
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