Diversity of narrative context disrupts the early stage of learning the meanings of novel words

High quality lexical representations develop through repeated exposures to words in different contexts. This preregistered experiment investigated how diversity of narrative context affects the earliest stages of word learning via reading. Adults (N = 100) learned invented meanings for eight pseudow...

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Main Authors: Hulme, RC, Begum, A, Nation, K, Rodd, JM
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Springer 2023