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| Adult age differences in vocabulary acquisition | | Author(s) | Lisa Laumann Long, Raymond J Shaw |
| Journal title | Educational Gerontology, vol 26, no 7, 2000 |
| Pages | pp 651-664 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Memory and Reminiscence ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Both working memory (WM) and existing vocabulary knowledge are used when the meaning of a new word is deciphered in context. Age-related WM deficits and vocabulary strengths suggest that younger and older people rely on these factors differently. Participants gave definitions for rare, novel words that appeared in short passages. Three measures of each individual difference factor (WM and vocabulary) were administered. Older people gave more complex definitions for the novel words, but had higher vocabulary knowledge test scores, but reduced WM scores compared with younger adults. As predicted, existing vocabulary knowledge contributed more to extracting word meaning from context than did WM for the older age group only. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010111206 A |
| Classmark | DA: DB: BB: SD6: 7T |
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