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Age effects in first language attrition: speech perception by Korean-English bilinguals [PDF]

, 2017
This article has been awarded Open Materials and Open Data badges. All materials and data are publicly accessible via the Open Science Framework at https://osf.io/B2478 and at https://osf.io/G4C7Z.
Ahn, Sunyoung, Chang, Charles B., DeKeyser, Robert, Lee-Ellis, Sunyoung   +3 more
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Modeling Age of Acquisition Norms Using Transformer Networks

Proceedings of the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2021
The age at which children acquire words is an important psycholinguistic property for modeling the growth of children's semantic networks. Much work over the years has explored how to effectively exploit statistical models to predict the age at which a ...
Antonio Laverghetta Jr., John Licato
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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., Cawthera A., Deauvieau J., Denny J. P., Exner S., Gudschinsky S. C., Kolinsky R., Lind A., Maurer U., Morais J., Morais J., Nakamura M., National Reading Panel, Observatoire National De la Lecture, Olson D., Shibatani M., Snow C. E., United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization   +19 more
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Age of acquisition and naming performance in Frisian-Dutch bilingual speakers with dementia

Dementia & Neuropsychologia
Age of acquisition (AoA) of words is a recognised variable affecting language processing in speakers with and without language disorders. For bi- and multilingual speakers their languages can be differentially affected in neurological illness.
Wencke S. Veenstra, Mark Huisman, Nick Miller   +2 more
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A Formal Treatment of Generalized Preferential Attachment and its Empirical Validation

, 2007
Generalized preferential attachment is defined as the tendency of a vertex to acquire new links in the future with respect to a particular vertex property.
A Herdağdelen, Camille Roth, E Aygün, H Bingol, Herdağdelen A. Aygün E. Bingöl H., Jeong H.   +5 more
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Contact, the feature pool and the speech community : The emergence of Multicultural London English. [PDF]

, 2011
In Northern Europe’s major cities, new varieties of the host languages are emerging in the multilingual inner cities. While some analyse these ‘multiethnolects’ as youth styles, we take a variationist approach to an emerging ‘Multicultural London English’
Androutsopoulos, Bickerton, Britain, Britain, Britain, Brown, Buchstaller, Castells, Chambers, Chambers, Cheshire, Cheshire, Clyne, Eckert, Gabrielatos, Hickey, Horvath, Inwood, Kerswill, Kerswill, Kerswill, Kerswill, Kerswill, Kotsinas, Krashen, Labov, Labov, Labov, Labov, Labov, Labov, Labov, Lapidus, Lass, Le Page, Lobanov, Macaulay, Mesthrie, Meyerhoff, Milroy, Milroy, Mufwene, Newton, Quist, Rampton, Roberts, Schilling-Estes, Schumann, Sebba, Sebba, Siegel, Smith, Svendsen, Tagliamonte, Thomason, Torgersen, Torgersen, Trudgill, Watermeyer, Wells, Wiese, Wiese, Winford   +62 more
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Exploring the Effects of Early Extramural English Exposure on the Vocabulary Size of University Students

Education Sciences
Research has shown that current informal extramural (out-of-class) activities can be an important predictor of second language (L2) vocabulary knowledge, but less is known about the relationship between language proficiency and activities earlier in life,
Nicole Louise Busby
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Children's acquisition of science terms: simple exposure is insufficient [PDF]

, 2007
The ability of school children (N = 233) to acquire new scientific vocabulary was examined. Children from two age groups (M = 4;8 and M = 6;5) were introduced to previously unknown words in an educational video.
Best, R, Braisby, N, Dockrell, Julie
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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, Lambert, Lantolf, Lantolf, Lantolf, Lantolf, Larsen, Lindemann, Mori, Moyer, Muñoz, O Brien, Paradis, Patkowski, Pearson, Pearson, Piske, Place, Poon, Schieffelin, Selinker, Tare, Tarone, Tarone, Tarone, Thomas, Van Hofwegen, Watson, Werker, Werker, Young   +30 more
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A Case Study of the Impact of Musical Pattern Rehearsal on the Acquisition of Oral and Written Language Skills in a Young Child with Learning Differences [PDF]

, 2007
The study explores the relationship between learning musical patterns and learning language patterns. A case study of a male diagnosed with learning differences in generative writing and graphic processing indicates a positive relationship between the ...
Carwile, Rebecca F.
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