Vocabulary
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Modeling children's early grammatical knowledge.

3 Oct 2009 Theories of grammatical development differ in how much abstract knowledge they attribute to young children. Here, we report a series of experiments using a computational model to evaluate the explanatory power of child grammars based not on abstract ... Read more...

Memory strategy development in children with foetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to examine whether children with foetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) show the same developmental transition from visual to verbal memory strategies as in non-FASD children and whether this transition was ... Read more...

Language features in a mother and daughter of a chromosome 7;13 translocation involving FOXP2.

29 Sep 2009 PURPOSE: The aims of this study were (a) to locate the breakpoints of a balanced translocation (7;13) within a mother (B) and daughter (T); (b) to describe the language and cognitive skills of B and T; and (c) to compare this profile with affected ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Vocabulary'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Modeling children's early grammatical knowledge. 3 Oct 2009
• Memory strategy development in children with foetal alcohol spectrum disorders. 29 Sep 2009
• Language features in a mother and daughter of a chromosome 7;13 translocation involving FOXP2. 29 Sep 2009
• Behavior predictors of language development over 2 years in children with autism spectrum disorders. 29 Sep 2009
• Investigating the time course of spoken word recognition: electrophysiological evidence for the influences of phonological similarity. 29 Sep 2009
• Conceptual processing in music as revealed by N400 effects on words and musical targets. 29 Sep 2009
• Imaging short- and long-term training success in chronic aphasia. 20 Sep 2009
• The alchemy of jargon: Etymologies of urologic neologisms. Number 5: oncology and its vocabulary. 13 Sep 2009
• Positive schizotypy scores correlate with left visual field interference for negatively valenced emotional words: A lateralized emotional Stroop study. 7 Sep 2009
• Verbal learning in Alzheimer's disease: cumulative word knowledge gains across learning trials. 30 Aug 2009
• Monolingual, bilingual, trilingual: infants' language experience influences the development of a word-learning heuristic. 30 Aug 2009
• Weighting of vowel cues explains patterns of word-object associative learning. 30 Aug 2009
• Young children separate multiple pretend worlds. 30 Aug 2009
• Global subjective memorability and the strength-based mirror effect in recognition memory. 30 Aug 2009
• Teacher knowledge, instructional expertise, and the development of reading proficiency. 30 Aug 2009
• Ventromedial prefrontal damage and memory for context: perceptual versus semantic features. 30 Aug 2009
• Neural priming in human frontal cortex: multiple forms of learning reduce demands on the prefrontal executive system. 30 Aug 2009
• Embodied memory judgments: a case of motor fluency. 30 Aug 2009
• Metacognitive control over the distribution of practice: when is spacing preferred? 30 Aug 2009
• Attentional requirements for the selection of words from different grammatical categories. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Vocabulary'

Definition: The sum or the stock of words used by a language, a group, or an individual. (From Webster, 3d ed)

Descriptor UI: D014825

Alternative terms: Vocabulary; Vocabularies;

Tree Number: L01.143.506.598.901;

Technical Notes: a person's stock of words; do not use for nomenclature ( = NOMENCLATURE) or for THESAURUS see VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED; no qualif