The effects of trait emotional intelligence and sociobiographical variables on communicative anxiety and foreign language anxiety among adult multilinguals: A review and empirical investigation [PDF]
, 2008 This study considered the effects of trait emotional intelligence (trait EI; Petrides & Furnham, 2001) and sociobiographical variables (age, gender, education level, number of languages known, age of onset of acquisition, context of acquisition ...
Dewaele, Jean-Marc +2 more
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Does Bilingualism Delay the Development of Dementia?
Journal of European Psychology Students, 2016 It has been suggested that bilingualism (where individuals speak two languages) may delay the development of dementia. However, much of the research is inconclusive.
Amy L Atkinson
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Differential effects of internal and external factors on the development of vocabulary, tense morphology and morpho-syntax in successive bilingual children [PDF]
, 2011 The present study investigates the effects of child internal (age/time) and child external/environmental factors on the development of a wide range of language domains in successive bilingual (L2) Turkish-English children of homogeneously low SES.
Chondrogianni, Vicky, Marinis, Theo
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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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Languages, 2018 This paper compares heritage speakers and second language (L2) speakers of Spanish with Dutch as their dominant language, in order to explore the role of age of onset and manner of acquisition in the nature of the knowledge (implicit vs. explicit) of the
Brechje van Osch +3 more
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Predictors of naming latencies in Lebanese Arabic using a set of 274 images
Psychology of Language and CommunicationPicture-naming tasks are a widely used experimental paradigm in investigating aspects of lexical retrieval and in clinical evaluations. Psycholinguistic properties pertaining to pictorial stimuli differ across pictures and may impact the speed and ...
Kanj Rama, Nasser Maya, Khwaileh Tariq
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Anger and assaultiveness of male forensic patients with developmental disabilities : links to volatile parents [PDF]
, 2008 This study with 107 male forensic patients with developmental disabilities investigated whether exposure to parental anger and aggression was related to anger and assaultiveness in a hospital, controlling for background variables.
Novaco, Raymond, Taylor, John
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Frequency, not age of acquisition, affects Italian word naming
European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2007 The purpose of this study was to evaluate the claim that age of acquisition (AoA) and word frequency effects are reduced or nonexistent in languages which have very regular letter-to-sound mappings, like Italian. The first two experiments (Exp. 1, Exp. 2) showed that frequency variables affect reading aloud and lexical decision in Italian.
Burani, C, Arduino, LS, Barca, L
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Epidemiological patterns of hepatitis B virus (HBV) in highly endemic areas [PDF]
, 1996 This paper uses meta-analysis of published data and a deterministic mathematical model of hepatitis B virus (HBV) transmission to describe the patterns of HBV infection in high endemicity areas.
W. J. Edmunds +20 more
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Age of Acquisition of personality terms
, 2019 The relationship between age of acquisition (AoA), word frequency, word desirability, and factor loading in the Big Five and Hexaco models of 274 and 408 personality adjectives was studied. It was found that young children (2nd graders or younger) acquire personality terms that represent traits at the core of the broad personality factors in the Big ...
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