Learning to Read Connections—Sensitivity to Collocation Frequency Links Vocabulary Size and Reading Comprehension in Middle Childhood

AMA Schmitterer, C Gawrilow… - Reading Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The collocation frequency of words in the language environment contributes to early
vocabulary development. Vocabulary size, in turn, predicts children's reading …

Complex meanings shape early noun and verb vocabulary structure and learning.

JB Kueser, A Borovsky - Canadian Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Verbs and nouns vary in many ways—including in how they are used in language and in the
timing of their early learning. We compare the distribution of semantic features that comprise …

No three productions alike: Lexical variability, situated dynamics, and path dependence in task-based corpora

A Shadrova - Open Linguistics, 2025 - degruyter.com
Situated language use is influenced by a number of dynamic phenomena that introduce
lexical variability and path dependence, such as fluid discourse granularity, priming, and …

Learning semantic knowledge based on infant real-time attention and parent in-situ speech

J Yang, Y Zhang, C Yu - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the …, 2024 - escholarship.org
Early word learning involves map** individual words to their meanings and building
organized semantic representations among words. Previous corpus-based studies (eg …