?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Age+of+acquisition+effects+in+word+reading+and+other+tasks&rft.creator=Zevin%2C+Jason+D.&rft.creator=Seidenberg%2C+Mark+S.&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Psycholinguistics&rft.description=Recent+studies+have+suggested+that+age+of+acquisition+(AoA)+has+an+impact+on+skilled+reading+independent+of+factors+such+as+frequency.+This+result+raises+questions+about+previous+studies+in+which+AoA+was+not+controlled%2C+and+about+current+theories+in+which+it+is+not+addressed.+Analyses+of+the+materials+used+in+previous+studies+suggest+that+the+observed+AoA+effects+may+have+been+due+to+other+factors.++We+also+found+little+evidence+for+an+AoA+effect+in+computational+models+of+reading+which+used+words+that+exhibit+normal+spelling-sound+regularities.+An+AoA+effect+was+observed%2C+however%2C+in+a+model+in+which+early+and+late+learned+words+did+not+overlap+in+terms+of+orthography+or+phonology.+The+results+suggest+that%2C+with+other+correlated+properties+of+stimuli+controlled%2C+AoA+effects+occur+when+what+is+learned+about+early+patterns+does+not+carry+over+to+later+ones.++This+condition+is+not+characteristic+of+learning+spelling-sound+mappings+but+may+be+relevant+to+tasks+such+as+learning+the+names+for+objects.&rft.date=2002-03&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2149%2F3%2Fzevin_seidenberg_aoa_2002.pdf&rft.identifier=++Zevin%2C+Jason+D.+and+Seidenberg%2C+Mark+S.++(2002)+Age+of+acquisition+effects+in+word+reading+and+other+tasks.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2149%2F