Dense neighborhoods and mechanisms of learning: Evidence from children with phonological delay

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dc.contributor.authorGierut, Judith A.en
dc.contributor.authorMorrisette, Michele L.en
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-11T21:18:52Zen
dc.date.available2016-01-11T21:18:52Zen
dc.date.issued2015en
dc.description.abstractThere is a noted advantage of dense neighborhoods in language acquisition, but the learning mechanism that drives the effect is not well understood. Two hypotheses–long-term auditory word priming and phonological working memory–have been advanced in the literature as viable accounts. These were evaluated in two treatment studies enrolling 12 children with phonological delay. Study 1 exposed children to dense neighbors versus nonneighbors before training sound production in evaluation of the priming hypothesis. Study 2 exposed children to the same stimuli after training sound production as a test of the phonological working memory hypothesis. Results showed that neighbors led to greater phonological generalization than nonneighbors, but only when presented prior to training production. There was little generalization and no differential effect of exposure to neighbors or nonneighbors after training production. Priming was thus supported as a possible mechanism of learning behind the dense neighborhood advantage in phonological acquisition.en
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Institutes of Health DC00433, RR7031K, DC00076, DC001694 (PI: Gierut)en
dc.identifier.citationGierut, J.A., & Morrisette, M. L. (2015). Dense neighborhoods and mechanisms of learning: Evidence from children with phonological delays. Journal of Child Language, 42, 1036-1072. PMCID: PMC4691351en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000914000701en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2022/20585
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S03050000914000701en
dc.rights© 2015 Cambridge University Pressen
dc.subjectphonologyen
dc.subjectchild phonologyen
dc.subjectclinical phonologyen
dc.subjectphonological disorders in childrenen
dc.subjectphonological treatmenten
dc.subjectLearnability Projecten
dc.subjectlanguage acquisitionen
dc.titleDense neighborhoods and mechanisms of learning: Evidence from children with phonological delayen
dc.typeArticleen

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