Baumeister A A
J Gen Psychol. 1985 Jan;112(1):109-12. doi: 10.1080/00221309.1985.9710994.
Recognition latencies were obtained for words about which age-of-acquisition data were directly available on individual children. Latencies to name 50 words were obtained for each of 20 ninth-grade children. In addition, each child was asked to give associations to each word as a measure of its meaningfulness. Although latencies were significantly related to age-at-acquisition, confirming earlier reports, the partial correlation with meaningfulness removed was not significant. Age-of-acquisition determines word availability only because early-learned words elicit more associations.
针对那些能直接获取个体儿童习得年龄数据的单词，记录其识别潜伏期。对20名九年级儿童中的每一位，都记录了其说出50个单词的潜伏期。此外，要求每个儿童对每个单词给出联想，以此作为单词意义性的一种度量。尽管潜伏期与习得年龄显著相关，证实了早期的报告，但去除与意义性的偏相关后并不显著。习得年龄决定单词可得性，只是因为早期习得的单词引发更多联想。
