Age of acquisition: its neural and computational mechanisms.

AE Hernandez, P Li - Psychological bulletin, 2007 - psycnet.apa.org
The acquisition of new skills over a life span is a remarkable human ability. This ability,
however, is constrained by age of acquisition (AoA); that is, the age at which learning occurs …

Age-of-acquisition effects in word and picture identification.

BJ Juhasz - Psychological bulletin, 2005 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract Words and pictures with earlier learned labels are processed faster than words and
pictures with later learned labels. This age-of-acquisition (AoA) effect has been extensively …

More use almost always means a smaller frequency effect: Aging, bilingualism, and the weaker links hypothesis

TH Gollan, RI Montoya, C Cera, TC Sandoval - Journal of memory and …, 2008 - Elsevier
The “weaker links” hypothesis proposes that bilinguals are disadvantaged relative to
monolinguals on speaking tasks because they divide frequency-of-use between two …

[HTML][HTML] Age-of-acquisition effects: A literature review.

MM Elsherif, E Preece, JC Catling - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Age of acquisition (AoA) refers to the age at which people learn a particular item and the
AoA effect refers to the phenomenon that early-acquired items are processed more quickly …

Age of acquisition and lexical processing

RA Johnston, C Barry - Visual cognition, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Following a brief history of age of acquisition (AoA) research and consideration of measures
of AoA, this review examines AoA effects in lexical processing tasks (such as object naming …

[BOOK][B] The bilingual brain

AE Hernandez - 2013 - books.google.com
Cases of language loss and recovery bring up an intriguing paradox. If two languages are
stored in the brain, how can it be that a person can lose one of them, but not the other, and …

Lexical-semantic properties of verbs and nouns used in conversation by people with Alzheimer's disease

E Williams, C Theys, M McAuliffe - PLoS One, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is accompanied by language impairments and communicative
breakdowns. Research into language processing by people with AD (pwAD) has focused …

The effect of age of acquisition: Partly frequency related, partly frequency independent

M Brysbaert, M Ghyselinck - Visual cognition, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
A review of multitask investigations on the locus of the age-of-acquisition (AoA) effect in the
English, Dutch, and French languages reveals two main findings. First, for most tasks there …

Where does the delay in L2 picture naming come from? Psycholinguistic and neurocognitive evidence on second language word production

J Hanulová, DJ Davidson, P Indefrey - Language and cognitive …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Bilinguals are slower when naming a picture in their second language than when naming it
in their first language. Although the phenomenon has been frequently replicated, it is not …

Ratings of age of acquisition of 299 words across 25 languages: Is there a cross-linguistic order of words?

M Łuniewska, E Haman, S Armon-Lotem… - Behavior research …, 2016 - Springer
We present a new set of subjective age-of-acquisition (AoA) ratings for 299 words (158
nouns, 141 verbs) in 25 languages from five language families (Afro-Asiatic: Semitic …