Age of English acquisition and the recognition of English words
Abstract
Previous
research (Palij & Aaronson, 1989) has shown that age of English
acquisition (AEA) does not affect recall of English words even
though SAT verbal scores systematically decrease with increasing AEA.
We report an experiment using a forced-choice recognition task with
an intervening verbal task based on the SAT. Correct recognition was
unrelated to AEA while performance on the verbal task decreased as
a function of AEA. We examine some mechanisms for this dissociation.