lexical acquisition
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflexicalandacquisition
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lexical
adjective
uk/ˈlek.sɪ.kəl/us/ˈlek.sɪ.kəl/
relating ...
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acquisition
noun
uk/ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/us/ˌæk.wəˈzɪʃ.ən/
the process of ...
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(Definition oflexicalandacquisitionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Specifying the role of semantics in children'slexicalacquisitionand naming : evidence from typical and atypical populations.
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Detecting the complements of a verb is an interesting application oflexicalacquisition.
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One reason adjectives have been neglected in thelexicalacquisitionliterature may be that they are proportionately few in children's early productive lexicons.
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This supports the notion that children are tuning their parsing preferences in the process oflexicalacquisition.
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This statistical procedure, however, cannot cover all aspects oflexicalacquisition.
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This organization has the potential to influencelexicalacquisition.
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These three experiments tested two predictions that follow from the hypothesis that categorization is used as a tool inlexicalacquisition.
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The study oflexicalacquisitionis complex and the methods used are not entirely reliable, with different methods yielding somewhat different results.
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Evidence from this study suggests that homonyms are in fact dispreferred inlexicalacquisition.
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Investigation of the influence of these variables over the time course oflexicalacquisitionmay support or refute this account.
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These authors have suggested that adults who help infants maintain focus of attention while naming the referent aidlexicalacquisition.
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If a null effect of neighborhood density is obtained, then this would suggest that other factors are stronger determinants oflexicalacquisitionin naturalistic contexts.
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Alternatively, this influence of neighborhood density onlexicalacquisitionmay be robust across both controlled and naturalistic settings.
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They could also proceed withlexicalacquisition, and perhaps even the vocabulary spurt, before it was fully in place.
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The use of corpora has resulted in systems that can cope with unrestricted text and use sophisticated techniques forlexicalacquisition.
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In order to see how viable this interactional approach to meaning acquisition might be, we need to examine the conversational contexts oflexicalacquisition.
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To rule out the confounding effects of correlated variables, the effects of word frequency and word length onlexicalacquisitionwere also examined.
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Empirical studies provide direct evidence that neighborhood density influenceslexicalacquisition.
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The investigation considers whether a negotiation routine's complexity affects learner uptake and if this uptake affectslexicalacquisitionin a synchronous computer-mediated environment.
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In sum, these results are consistent with previous findings in the acquisition literature that increased exposure to language results in betterlexicalacquisitionskills.
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