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Professors at the University of Murcia working on research that has as one of its main objectives to determine if the words are first learning to stay longer in humans and the relationship with the size of your vocabulary.
The study, which will be financed by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, seeks to explore the natural relationship between the acquisition order of words and the size of the lexicon, along with other features inherent in the increase of vocabulary.
To achieve this goal, the researchers, who are led by Professor Miguel Angel Pérez Sánchez, analyzed the so-called "age of acquisition effect" and the acquisition order of words, on which already have data on various population groups .
According to scientists, the lexicon is a feature that is governed by the acquisition order of words, so that the learned before recovering more quickly learned that later.
To work, the researchers created several training programs in the laboratory through which monolingual Spanish learn lists of words in Welsh.
Vocabulary size is manipulated by varying the number of words that each participant has to learn.
For scientists, there are reasonable grounds for believing that the effect of the acquisition order of words declines with increasing lexicon size and increasing the formal similarity between words and the multiple meanings of the same.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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