Keyword

word learning

Description: The process by which people acquire and develop knowledge of words, studied in language development, psychology, and computational modeling.

Primary topic: Language Development and Disorders (34%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q7939179

OpenAlex ID: keywords/word-learning

Early language acquisition: cracking the speech code

2004 · Patricia K. Kuhl · Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2,289

The phonological loop as a language learning device.

1998 · Alan Baddeley, Susan Gathercole, et al. · Psychological Review · 2,200

How Children Learn the Meanings of Words

2000 · Paul Bloom · The MIT Press eBooks · 1,975

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Boosting slow oscillations during sleep potentiates memory

2006 · Lisa Marshall, Halla Helgadóttir, et al. · Nature · 1,791

Early vocabulary growth: Relation to language input and gender.

1991 · Janellen Huttenlocher, Wendy Haight, et al. · Developmental Psychology · 1,779

Object Recognition as Machine Translation: Learning a Lexicon for a Fixed Image Vocabulary

2002 · P. Duygulu, K. Barnard, et al. · Lecture notes in computer science · 1,623

The Handbook of Child Language

2007 · Fletcher, Paul 1943-, MacWhinney, Brian 1945- · Wiley eBooks · 1,488

The faculty of language: what's special about it?

2005 · Steven Pinker, Ray Jackendoff · Cognition · 1,425

Children's use of mutual exclusivity to constrain the meanings of words

1988 · Ellen M Markman, Gwyn F Wachtel · Cognitive Psychology · 1,298

The Essential Child

2003 · Susan A. Gelman · 1,242

Age-of-acquisition ratings for 30,000 English words

2012 · Victor Kuperman, Hans Stadthagen-Gonzalez, et al. · Behavior Research Methods · 1,220

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Advances in infancy research

1981 · Lewis P. Lipsitt, Carolyn Rovee‐Collier · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1,121

Why Nouns are Learned Before Verbs : Linguistic Relativity versus Natural Partitioning

1982 · Dedre Gentner · Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) · 1,044

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Word learning as Bayesian inference.

2007 · Fei Xu, Joshua B. Tenenbaum · Psychological Review · 1,034

Infants rapidly learn word-referent mappings via cross-situational statistics

2007 · Linda Smith, Chen Yu · Cognition · 989

The Think Aloud Method: A Practical Guide to Modelling Cognitive Processes

1994 · Maarten W. van Someren · 974

How to Teach Vocabulary

2002 · Scott Thornbury · 966

Nonword repetition and word learning: The nature of the relationship

2006 · SUSAN E. GATHERCOLE · Applied Psycholinguistics · 906

The Beginnings of Word Segmentation in English-Learning Infants

1999 · Peter W. Jusczyk, Derek M. Houston, et al. · Cognitive Psychology · 897

The Nature of Vocabulary Acquisition

1991 · R. M. Victori, Margaret G. McKeown, et al. · TESOL Quarterly · 879

Words as Invitations to Form Categories: Evidence from 12- to 13-Month-Old Infants

1995 · Sandra R. Waxman, Dana B. Markow · Cognitive Psychology · 818

How Children Use Input to Acquire a Lexicon

2002 · Erika Hoff, Letitia Naigles · Child Development · 775

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The importance of vocabulary in language learning and how to be taught

2015 · MOFAREH ALQAHTANI · International Journal of Teaching and Education · 763

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Arbitrariness, Iconicity, and Systematicity in Language

2015 · Mark Dingemanse, Damián E. Blasi, et al. · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 762

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Vocabulary Acquisition from Listening to Stories

1989 · Warwick B. Elley · Reading Research Quarterly · 756

Works count: 11,190

Citation count: 225,200