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Publication Date: 2013-Apr
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Development of Lexical-Semantic Language System: N400 Priming Effect for Spoken Words in 18- and 24-Month Old Children
Rama, Pia; Sirri, Louah; Serres, Josette
Brain and Language, v125 n1 p1-10 Apr 2013
Our aim was to investigate whether developing language system, as measured by a priming task for spoken words, is organized by semantic categories. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded during a priming task for spoken words in 18- and 24-month-old monolingual French learning children. Spoken word pairs were either semantically related (e.g., train-bike) or unrelated (e.g., chicken-bike). The results showed that the N400-like priming effect occurred in 24-month-olds over the right parietal-occipital recording sites. In 18-month-olds the effect was observed similarly to 24-month-olds only in those children with higher word production ability. The results suggest that words are categorically organized in the mental lexicon of children at the age of 2 years and even earlier in children with a high vocabulary. (Contains 5 figures.)
Descriptors: Semantics, Priming, Word Recognition, Monolingualism, Cognitive Processes, Task Analysis, Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Infants, Oral Language, French, Language Acquisition, Classification, Language Processing, Vocabulary Development
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