Learning, Meaning and Speech : Abstract Writing - Dissertation Writing

Internal Code : MAS972 Dissertation project title is "Learning, Meaning and Speech" Abstract Guideline : I think you could do more here to clearly describe a general problem/question/story, briefly describe some methods, and then briefly describe some results.  You’ll have 250 words to do this, and it looks like you’ve only used about half of that, so you should plan on using all 250 words.  Please take a look at the attached example abstracts, and then look at the abstracts of other published articles that you have cited. Some main issues here that you could address: 1.Timed picture naming norms provide a useful basis for future research and clinical stuff, and we don’t have them for UK English, so this project provides some. 2.People have previously collected untimed written norms for these pictures in UK English. 1. How do our norms compare? 2.Do we have any evidence that timed norms are better than untimed written norms for predicting timed picture naming? 3. People have previously collected timed spoken norms for these pictures in US English. 1 How do our norms compare? 2 On the basis of these results, can US norms be useful in predicting names from UK participants? How would you use them most productively? 4. Previous norms have ignored semantic relationships between the pictures, and recent experiments suggest that we shouldn’t have to worry about them as long as we space related pictures at least 8 trials apart. 1 What (if any) evidence do we have that semantic relationships between the pictures can affect timed picture naming norms? 1 Do they affect naming latencies? 2 Do they affect name agreement, nonresponses, or which names people produce? If we have evidence that long-lag semantic relationships affect picture-naming norms, then what does that tell us about the conditions that produce cumulative