Differential effects of age of acquisition and frequency on memory: evidence from free recall of pictures and words in Turkish

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Predictors of lexical retrieval in Hindi–English bilingual speakers

“…Our result once again confirms that lexical access and retrieval in monolingual mode (i.e., Hindi) is constrained by subjective estimates of when a word is acquired in the L1. This finding has been replicated in studies with monolingual speakers (Alario et al, 2004; Bates et al, 2003; Cuetos et al, 1999; Severens, Van Lommel, Ratinckx & Hartsuiker, 2005), including speakers of less-studied languages like Persian (Bakhtiar et al, 2013), Turkish (Raman, Raman & Mertan, 2014; Raman, Raman, İkier, Kilecioğlu, Uzun Eroğlu & Zeyveli, 2018) and Russian (Volkovyskaya, Raman & Baluch, 2017). The robustness of the AoA effect across such a diverse spectrum of speakers highlights the universality of AoA in lexical retrieval.…”

The influence of age of acquisition on recall and recognition in Alzheimer’s patients and healthy ageing controls in Turkish

“…The study set out to examine whether performance on some words in Turkish were less prone to neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's patients compared to a healthy ageing control group by examining the role of AoA on word recall and recognition. Although reports of AoA effect exist in Turkish in word naming (Raman, 2006;2011) and free recall (Raman et al, 2018), to the best knowledge of the authors, this is the first empirical research examining the impact of AoA on episodic memory, in recall and recognition, with an ageing Turkish sample which included both healthy ageing adults and Alzheimer's patients. The study also aimed to investigate vocabulary capacity in both groups.…”

“…Most recently, similar to Dewhurst et al, (1998), the role of AoA and frequency on episodic memory were examined orthogonally in young adults in a free recall task in Turkish (Raman, Raman, İkier, Kilecioğlu, Uzun Eroğlu and Zeyveli, 2018). The findings were contradictory to those reported by Dewhurst et al (1998) in English: the main difference was that both AoA and word frequency had a significant main effect on free recall in Turkish whereas late acquired words were recalled better in English but only when frequency was controlled.…”

“…The semantic hypothesis suggests a possible semantic contribution to the emergence of AoA effects in psycholinguistic tasks (Brysbaert and colleagues). While the exact role of AoA on recall and recognition is still debated in typical populations across different languages (Dewhurst et al, 1998;Raman et al, 2018) because Alzheimer's presents a gradual loss of episodic as well as semantic memory, the extent to which AoA is involved in recall and recognition remains a crucial enquiry.…”

Discourse-Level Information Recall in Early and Late Bilinguals: Evidence From Single-Language and Cross-Linguistic Tasks

“…Information recall involves evoking recent or distant events and construing them through language ( Rubin and Umanath, 2015 ), as done when we (re)tell a story, a piece of news, or an anecdote. Though typically studied based on lists of disconnected stimulus lists ( Raman et al, 2018 ; Kilecioğlu et al, 2020 ; Macmillan et al, 2021 ), this domain can be fruitfully tapped through two naturalistic tasks: single-language recall (SLR) and consecutive interpreting (CI). In SLR tasks, participants are presented with pieces of discourse and asked to recount their contents as exhaustively as possible, in the same language ( Hiltunen and Vik, 2017 ; Prichard and Christman, 2017 ; Newberry and Bailey, 2019 ).…”