Language change for the worse [PDF]
Many theories hold that language change, at least on a local level, is driven by a need for improvement. The present volume explores to what extent this assumption holds true, and whether there is a particular type of language change that we dub language
Schaden, Gerhard +16 more
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Knowledge Summary 22: Reaching Child Brides [PDF]
, 2012 Child marriage affects 10 million girls under the age of 18 every year. The negative health and social impact of child marriage include higher rates of maternal and infant mortality, sexually transmitted infection, social separation, and domestic abuse
Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
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The mainstream primary classroom as a language-learning environment for children with severe and persistent language impairment - implications of recent language intervention research [PDF]
, 2009 Many UK children with severe and persistent language impairment (SLI) attend local mainstream schools. Although this should provide an excellent language-learning environment, opportunities may be limited by difficulties in sustaining time-consuming ...
Ellis, Sue +5 more
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A sociophonetic analysis of rhotic variation in Italian schoolchildren
Quaderns d'Italià, 2023 This paper investigates the production of Italian rhotics in the speech of 75 schoolchildren (6-10 years old) in the area of Biella, in the North-West of Italy.
Martina Rossi, Lucia Sbacco
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Positive Parenting Behaviors and Child Development in Ceará, Brazil: A Population-Based Study
Children, 2022 Parenting practices have been identified as a key determinant of children’s developmental outcomes. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of parenting practices with child development in a cross-sectional population-based study in a low ...
Hermano A. L. Rocha +8 more
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Children’s Interpretation of Ambiguous wh-Adjuncts in Mandarin Chinese
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 The paper reports two studies investigating children’s acquisition of the wh-adjunct zenme in Mandarin. Unlike other Mandarin wh-words that correspond to a single meaning, zenme can be used to question either the manner or the cause of an event.
Jing Li, Peng Zhou
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The company that words keep: comparing the statistical structure of child- versus adult-directed language [PDF]
, 2013 Does child-directed language differ from adult-directed language in ways that might facilitate word learning? Associative structure (the probability that a word appears with its free associates), contextual diversity, word repetitions and frequency were ...
Hills, Thomas Trenholm
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Languages, 2021 While there is increasing international interest in approaching language analysis with the prism of repertoire, research on repertoire on the Australian continent is still very much in the shadow of “traditional” language-centric documentary work.
Sally Dixon
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مُدوَّنة مُعجَم الطِّفل العَربيّ: نَحْوَ مَوردٍ لُغويٍّ جَديد
Ankara Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2022 ساعدُ مُعجمُ الطِّفل في تنمية الثَّروة اللَّفظيَّة لأبناء اللُّغة الأمّ، ويُؤدِّي دورًا مُهمًّا في عمليَّة اكتساب اللُّغة. ومع وجود هذا النَّوع من المعاجم في العديد من اللُّغات الإنسانيَّة، فإنَّ المكتبة العربيَّة تكاد تخلو من معاجم الطِّفل بمفهومها الدَّ
Almoataz B. Al-said
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Correlation of Language Assessment Batteries of Toddlers With Developmental Language Delay [PDF]
Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2022 Objective To analyze the correlation between standardized language assessment batteries of toddlers and developmental language delays. Methods A total of 319 children with suspected language developmental delays were enrolled in this study ...
Jin A Yoon +6 more
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