NVESTIGATING LEXICAL ACQUISITION PATTERNS: CONTEXT AND COGNITION

7.4.2.2.6 Story generation Task ............242

7.4.3 Overallwordlearningandbetweenmeasurescomparison ................257

7.4.3.1 Is there a differential impact of the type of exposure
to new lexical items that the children receive on the
overall word learning ?.........................257

7.4.3.2 Is there any difference between children ^,s performance
on the baseline and post test comprehension and

naming of the target words ?.....................258

7.4.3.3 Is there any correlation between children ^,s
performance on the multiple choice and naming task 7....259

7.4.3.4 Is there any correlation between children ^,s performance
on the naming and the other understanding tasks ? ... 260

7.4.3.5 Is there any correlation between children ^,s
existing vocabulary knowledge (expressive and receptive)
and their performance on the naming and multiple
choice tasks! .................................260

7.4.3.6 Is there any relation between children ^,s prior
lexical knowledge by semantic domain and the
acquisition of the target words ...................260

7.4.3.7 Comparing children ^,s performance across the
post test measurements .........................261

7.5 Overall Conclusions and Discussion OfExperiment 2 ................266

Chapter 8: DISCUSSION & CONCLUSIONS.............................268

8.1 Introduction .................................................268

8.2 Summary of the findings .......................................268

8.3 Parameters contributing to Lexical acquisition......................269

8.3.1 Childbasedfactors....................................269

8.3.1.1 Children perform better in the lexical tasks as they
get older.....................................269

8.3.1.2 Phonological memory predicts production
but not comprehension of the novel words ..........270

8.3.1.3 Existing VocabularyZPrior lexical knowledge is related

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