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Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Morphological brain changes as a consequence of new learning have been widely established. Learning a second language (L2) is one such experience that can lead to rapid structural neural changes. However, still relatively little is known about how levels
Eleonora Rossi +5 more
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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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How to teach fully illiterate adults to read. [PDF]
, 2019 About 750 million adults (15%) worldwide lack any literacy skills, most because they lack adequate learning opportunities (UNESCO, 2016). In this chapter, we discuss how to teach to read to such people.
Armbruster B. +19 more
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Reaching out to the other side: Formal-linguistics-based SLA and Socio-SLA [PDF]
, 2013 Generative linguistics has long been concerned with the linguistic competence of the “ideal speaker-listener, in a completely homogeneous speech-community, who knows its language perfectly” (Chomsky 1965: 3).
Kinzler +30 more
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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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Sleep quality influences subsequent motor skill acquisition [PDF]
, 2016 While the influence of sleep on motor memory consolidation has been extensively investigated, its relation to initial skill acquisition is less well understood.
Albouy, Genevieve +4 more
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Visuo-spatial abilities in chess players [PDF]
, 2002 The extent to which the acquisition of expertise in knowledge-rich domains, such as chess, can be influenced by general individual characteristics, such as intelligence, has remained unclear.
Gobet, F, Leyden, G, Waters, A
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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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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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