Examining Oral (Dis)Fluency in—uh– —Spanish as a Heritage Language
Languages, 2023 Silence, self-interruptions, or hesitations in spontaneous speech are often interpreted as markers of oral disfluency as they lead to difficulties in delivering a message and in processing it. The main purpose of this study is to examine how such markers
Marina Cuartero +2 more
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Age of acquisition ratings for 3,000 monosyllabic words [PDF]
Behavior Research Methods, 2008 Age of acquisition (AoA) ratings made on a 1-7 scale for 3,000 monosyllabic words were obtained from 32 participants across four blocks of 750 trials (two blocks of 750 trials were completed in each of 2 days). These results, as well as those of the regression analyses and reliability and validity measures that were originally reported in Cortese and ...
Michael J, Cortese, Maya M, Khanna
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The Critical Period Hypothesis for L2 Acquisition: An Unfalsifiable Embarrassment?
Languages, 2021 This article focuses on the uncertainty surrounding the issue of the Critical Period Hypothesis. It puts forward the case that, with regard to naturalistic situations, the hypothesis has the status of both “not proven” and unfalsified.
David Singleton, Justyna Leśniewska
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'Children are just lingual': The development of phonology in British Sign Language (BSL) [PDF]
, 2006 This paper explores three universal tendencies in spoken language acquisition: consonant and vowel harmony, cluster reduction and systemic simplification, using a corpus of 1018 signs from a single child exposed to British Sign Language from birth. Child
Morgan, G.
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Children retain implicitly learned phonological sequences better than adults: A longitudinal study [PDF]
, 2018 This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Eleonore H. M. Smalle, Mike P. A. Page, Wouter Duyck, Martin Edwards, and Arnaud Szmalec, 'Children retain implicitly learned phonological sequences better than adults: a longitudinal study ...
Adi-Japha +68 more
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Deaf and hearing children's picture naming Impact of age of acquisition and language modality on representational gesture [PDF]
, 2017 Stefanini, Bello, Caselli, Iverson, & Volterra (2009) reported that Italian 24-36 month old children use a high proportion of representational gestures to accompany their spoken responses when labelling pictures.
England, R. +5 more
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More is more in language learning:reconsidering the less-is-more hypothesis [PDF]
, 2018 The Less-is-More hypothesis was proposed to explain age-of-acquisition effects in first language (L1) acquisition and second language (L2) attainment. We scrutinize different renditions of the hypothesis by examining how learning outcomes are affected by
Brooks, Patricia J., Kempe, Vera
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Rapid learning of an abstract language-specific category: Polish children's acquisition of the instrumental construction [PDF]
, 2008 Rapid acquisition of linguistic categories or constructions is sometimes regarded as evidence of innate knowledge. In this paper, we examine Polish children's early understanding of an idiosyncratic, language-specific construction involving the ...
Bańko +15 more
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Journal of Cognition, 2018 In two studies we compare a distributional semantic model derived from word co-occurrences and a word association based model in their ability to predict properties that affect lexical processing.
Hendrik Vankrunkelsven +3 more
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What Drives Task Performance During Animal Fluency in People With Alzheimer’s Disease?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 BackgroundAnimal fluency is a widely used task to assess people with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other neurological disorders. The mechanisms that drive performance in this task are argued to rely on language and executive functions.
Adrià Rofes +5 more
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