Spot it and learn it! Word learning in virtual peer-group interactions using a novel paradigm for school-aged children
We use a novel paradigm to examine the effect of language exposure and variable input on the acquisition of words in primary school-aged children. Children growing up with different languages and foreign or regional accents in their input might benefit from their experience with variability when lea...
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| Autori principali: | , |
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| Natura: | Article (Journal) |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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March 2023
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Language learning
Year: 2023, Volume: 73, Fascicolo: 1, Pages: 197-230 |
| ISSN: | 1467-9922 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/lang.12520 |
| Accesso online: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12520 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/lang.12520 
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| Note sull'autore: | Helena Levy and Adriana Hanulíková |
| Riassunto: | We use a novel paradigm to examine the effect of language exposure and variable input on the acquisition of words in primary school-aged children. Children growing up with different languages and foreign or regional accents in their input might benefit from their experience with variability when learning new words from peers with unfamiliar accents. We ask to what extent language and accent experience helps monolingual and bilingual children learn new words in the context of accent variability. Children (aged 7-11 years) played a computerized card game with virtual peers that resembles natural advanced lexical acquisition, during which new words are learned from child speakers and are produced actively in peer-group interactions. Successful word learning was predicted by the amount of input in regional and foreign accents but not by exposure to other languages (i.e., bilingualism). We discuss how accent experience affects word learning under variable input conditions. |
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| Descrizione del documento: | Zuerst veröffentlicht: 27. September 2022 Gesehen am 27.05.2026 |
| Descrizione fisica: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1467-9922 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/lang.12520 |