N J Spencer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1878959 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N J Spencer |
| GIVEN NAMES | N J |
| FAMILY NAME | Spencer |
| SIGNATURE | SPENCER N J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Poverty and child health
There is a long established link between poverty and child health, both in the United Kingdom and in other countries. In this review of the literature, the author explores the nature of this link. The paper discusses the historical background and briefly reviews the evidence from the developing countries and the controversy surrounding the definition of poverty before examining the association between child health and poverty in the United Kingdo…
Ecological Validity in Psycholinguistic Research
Lexical Access for Phonetic Ambiguities
Phonetic ambiguities, such as ice cream/I scream, have been described as perceptually indeterminate. These ambiguous forms have been used to illustrate the requirement of multiple levels of processing (analysis of surrounding syntax and semantics) in the determination of word perception. In examining that requirement, we found both in perception (31 listeners) and in generation (129 college students) that phonetically ambiguous pairs were not con…
Can "she" and "he" coexist
Can "she" and "he" coexist
Prose Recall
Is remembering prose retrieving ideas (Gomulicki) or construction (Bartlett)? Using six passages, 36 male and female college students immediately remembered .58 ideas accurately and gave only .03 intrusions. Later (one or two days), in both free and cued recall (recovering 88% of unrecalled passages), representations had not changed (.05 intrusions). At three months retrieval accounted for 82% of ideas in recalls, and cuing recovered 85% of unrec…
Differences between linguists and nonlinguists in intuitions of grammaticality-acceptability
Differences between linguists and nonlinguists in intuitions of grammaticality-acceptability
Lexical Access for Phonetic Ambiguities
Phonetic ambiguities, such as ice cream/I scream, have been described as perceptually indeterminate. These ambiguous forms have been used to illustrate the requirement of multiple levels of processing (analysis of surrounding syntax and semantics) in the determination of word perception. In examining that requirement, we found both in perception (31 listeners) and in generation (129 college students) that phonetically ambiguous pairs were not con…
Differences between linguists and nonlinguists in intuitions of grammaticality-acceptability
Prose Recall
Is remembering prose retrieving ideas (Gomulicki) or construction (Bartlett)? Using six passages, 36 male and female college students immediately remembered .58 ideas accurately and gave only .03 intrusions. Later (one or two days), in both free and cued recall (recovering 88% of unrecalled passages), representations had not changed (.05 intrusions). At three months retrieval accounted for 82% of ideas in recalls, and cuing recovered 85% of unrec…
Can "she" and "he" coexist
Can "she" and "he" coexist
Lexical Access for Phonetic Ambiguities
Phonetic ambiguities, such as ice cream/I scream, have been described as perceptually indeterminate. These ambiguous forms have been used to illustrate the requirement of multiple levels of processing (analysis of surrounding syntax and semantics) in the determination of word perception. In examining that requirement, we found both in perception (31 listeners) and in generation (129 college students) that phonetically ambiguous pairs were not con…
Ecological Validity in Psycholinguistic Research
Poverty and child health
There is a long established link between poverty and child health, both in the United Kingdom and in other countries. In this review of the literature, the author explores the nature of this link. The paper discusses the historical background and briefly reviews the evidence from the developing countries and the controversy surrounding the definition of poverty before examining the association between child health and poverty in the United Kingdo…
Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Gender Studies in Language (2 works) · Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (2 works) · Biology (1 work) · Child and Adolescent Health (1 work) · Child health (1 work)