Nelson, Jessica Ruth
(2005)
Vocabulary Learning in Modality-Specific Context: Building Complete Representations.
Master's Thesis, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
This study seeks to determine the extent to which phonology and orthography are generated when a word is learned in a single modality (visual or auditory) and how this affects the ability to later recognize that word in the opposite modality. Participants overall required fewer trials to learn words presented visually than auditorily, and performance in a recognition and recall task indicated that the word form representations were better specified with visual training. However, slower vocabulary learners showed a deficit in their ability to accurately recognize words learned visually and later heard. Results indicate that decoding takes place more readily than encoding (used to mean the opposite of decoding) and that slow learners have difficulty forming well-specified phonological representations when given words orthographically.
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| Item Type: |
University of Pittsburgh ETD
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| Status: |
Unpublished |
| Creators/Authors: |
| Creators | Email | Pitt Username | ORCID  |
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| Nelson, Jessica Ruth | jen33@pitt.edu | JEN33 | |
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| ETD Committee: |
| Title | Member | Email Address | Pitt Username | ORCID |
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| Committee Chair | Perfetti, Charles A | | | | | Committee Member | Reichle, Erik D | | | | | Committee Member | Fiez, Julie A | | | |
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| Date: |
3 February 2005 |
| Date Type: |
Completion |
| Defense Date: |
21 October 2004 |
| Approval Date: |
3 February 2005 |
| Submission Date: |
10 December 2004 |
| Access Restriction: |
No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately. |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Psychology |
| Degree: |
MS - Master of Science |
| Thesis Type: |
Master's Thesis |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
decoding; orthography; phonology; word learning; word representation |
| Other ID: |
http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-12102004-113252/, etd-12102004-113252 |
| Date Deposited: |
10 Nov 2011 20:10 |
| Last Modified: |
15 Nov 2016 13:54 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/10276 |
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