role of repetition in word familiarity

[Tania Zamuner]

Dear Colleagues,

I posted a query a while back asking about research looking at whether
word repetition plays a role in word familarity (specifically in first
language acquisition). Below is a summary of the literature suggestions we
received. I've limited the summary to available research.

Many people rightfully pointed out the ambiguity of the terms 'repetition'
and 'familiarity'. To clarify the question, we are specifically interested
in the role of children's own repetition of a word form and how this might
contribute to word familarity. If this clarification triggers any further
suggestions, please let me know.

Thank you for your help.

Tania Zamuner

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Research showing a correlation between parental input frequency and age of
acquisition for words on the MacArthur CDI.
	Philip Dale & Judith Goodman, Commonality and individual differences in
	vocabulary growth. In M. Tomasello & D.I. Slobin (Eds,), Beyond
	nature-nurture: Essays in honor of Elizabeth Bates. Mahwah NJ: Erlbaum,
	41-78.

ERP paper that examines both familiarity and repetition in a word learning
task with 20-month old infants.
	Mills, Plunkett, Prat & Schafer (in press). Watching the infant brain
	learn words: effects of vocabulary size and experience. Cognitive
	Development.

Work looking at the function of repetition in young children's word
acquisition.
	Eve V. Clark. (2003). First Language Acquisition.

	Michelle M. Chouinard & Eve V. Clark. (2003). Adult reformulations of
	child errors as negative evidence. 30: 637-669.

Repetition and word acquisition.
	Childers, J. B. & Tomasello, M.  (2002).  Two-year-olds learn novel nouns,
	verbs, and conventional actions from massed or spaced exposures.
	Developmental Psychology, 38, 967-978.

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Philip Dale
Debbie Mills
Ray Weitzman
Eve Clark
Lisa Goffman
Dan Swingley
Annette Fox