NVESTIGATING LEXICAL ACQUISITION PATTERNS: CONTEXT AND COGNITION



Figure 7.14. Total number of correct responses in the “world knowledge” questions by
children’s prior knowledge of the lexical items across testing

I I Unknown words
Partially represented words

Is performance in the short questions task influenced by the semantic domain of the lexical
items?

Categorisation questions

Figure 7.15 shows that children’s performance in the categorisation questions did not differ
by the semantic domain of the lexical items. Statistical analysis revealed no significant
differences.

Figure 7.15 Total number of correct responses in the “categorisation questions” by
semantic domain across testing

World knowledge questions

Figure 7.16 shows that all the children performed significantly better in the words describing
artifacts than in the words describing animals across testing (Wilcoxon: Pl: Z=4.9, p<.0000;

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