{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Savic O"],"funding":["NICHD NIH HHS","Foundation for the National Institutes of Health"],"pagination":["142-158"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9780163"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["94(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["With development knowledge becomes organized according to semantic links, including early-developing associative (e.g., juicy-apple) and gradually developing taxonomic links (e.g., apple-pear). Word co-occurrence regularities may foster these links: Associative links may form from direct co-occurrence (e.g., juicy-apple), and taxonomic links from shared co-occurrence (e.g., apple and pear co-occur with juicy). Four experiments (2017-2020) investigated this possibility with 4- to 8-year-olds (N = 148, 82 female) and adults (N = 116, 35 female) in a U.S. city with 58.6% White; 29.0% Black, and 5.8% Asian demographics. Results revealed earlier development of the abilities to form direct (ds > 0.536) than the abilities to form shared co-occurrence-based links (ds > 1.291). We argue that the asynchronous development of abilities to form co-occurrence-based links may explain developmental changes in semantic organization."],"journal":["Child development"],"pubmed_title":["Experience and maturation: The contribution of co-occurrence regularities in language to the development of semantic organization."],"pmcid":["PMC9780163"],"funding_grant_id":["R01HD078545","R01 HD078545","P01 HD080679","P01HD080679"],"pubmed_authors":["Unger L","Sloutsky VM","Savic O"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Experience and maturation: The contribution of co-occurrence regularities in language to the development of semantic organization.","description":"With development knowledge becomes organized according to semantic links, including early-developing associative (e.g., juicy-apple) and gradually developing taxonomic links (e.g., apple-pear). Word co-occurrence regularities may foster these links: Associative links may form from direct co-occurrence (e.g., juicy-apple), and taxonomic links from shared co-occurrence (e.g., apple and pear co-occur with juicy). Four experiments (2017-2020) investigated this possibility with 4- to 8-year-olds (N = 148, 82 female) and adults (N = 116, 35 female) in a U.S. city with 58.6% White; 29.0% Black, and 5.8% Asian demographics. Results revealed earlier development of the abilities to form direct (ds > 0.536) than the abilities to form shared co-occurrence-based links (ds > 1.291). We argue that the asynchronous development of abilities to form co-occurrence-based links may explain developmental changes in semantic organization.","dates":{"release":"2023-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2023 Jan","modification":"2025-04-26T17:45:52.621Z","creation":"2025-02-18T23:25:56.772Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9780163","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35962586"],"doi":["10.1111/cdev.13844"]}}