NVESTIGATING LEXICAL ACQUISITION PATTERNS: CONTEXT AND COGNITION

4.4. Implications for Experiment 1 ...................................80

Chapter 5: EXPERIMENT 1 ............................................81

5.1 Introduction ..................................................81

5.2 Aims and research questions OfExperimentl ..............................81

5.3 Methods .........................................................82

5.3.1 Participants ..............................................82

5.3.2 Design...............................................82

5.3.3 Materials.............................................86

5.3.4 Procedure ............................................87

5.3.4.1 Generaltestingprocedure........................87

5.3.4.2 Procedure for the Pre-test measures................88

5.3.4.3 Procedure for the groups.........................89

5.3.4.4 Procedure for the Post test Measures ...............90

5.4 Results OfExperiment 1.........................................92

5.4.1 TheBaselineMeasures..................................92

5.4.1.1 British Picture Vocabulary Scale...................93

5.4.1.2 Phonological Memory test........................94

5.4.2 The post test measures ..................................94

5.4.2.1 The Production measures ........................94

5.4.2.1.1 Naming task ...........................94

5.4.2.2 The Comprehension measures....................102

5.4.2.2.1 Multiple choice task ....................102

5.4.2.2.2 Inference task .........................108

5.4.2.2.3 Definition task.........................117

5.4.2.2.4 Analogy task..........................126

5.4.2.2.5 Contrast task..........................134

5.4.2.2.6 Sentence generation task.................141

5.4.3 Between and Across tests comparisons ..........................170

5.4.3.1 Comparison between post-test measures for both
post tests.....................................170

5.4.3.2 Are there any correlations between children ^,s
performance on the naming and multiple choice task? 171