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Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, 2013 The relationship between phonological skills and reading has not been studied extensively in the African languages spoken in South Africa. This study focuses on phonological skills and reading in emergent bilingual Northern Sotho/English learners.
Wilsenach, Carien
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Developmental stuttering with common and complex phenotypes
Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.Aim To describe the phenotypic spectrum associated with stuttering. Method Individuals with current or resolved developmental stuttering self‐referred. Surveys assessed stuttering characteristics (onset, negative impact, family history) and health (early development, other conditions). Speech and non‐verbal intelligence were assessed using conversation
Sarah E. Horton +6 more
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The Role of Second Language Reading Proficiency in Moderating Second Language Word Recognition
Education SciencesDrawing upon the division of labor between orthographic and phonological information, this study investigated whether and how L2 reading proficiency moderates learners’ reliance on phonological and orthographic information in retrieving word meanings.
Xiaomeng Li, Tianxu Chen
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Factors Affecting Communication Outcomes for Deaf and Multilingual Learners: A Systematic Review. [PDF]
Int J Lang Commun DisordABSTRACT Background Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children who are exposed to more than one spoken language can be described as deaf and multilingual learners (DMLs). Increased globalisation and technological advancements in hearing amplification mean an increasing number of children who are DHH access more than one spoken language (with and without ...
Kilmartin E, Conroy P, Owens J.
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Exploratory Practice: Researching the Impact of Songs on EFL Learners' Verbal Memory [PDF]
, 2014 Traditionally popular songs have been used as a way of enhancing listening and auditory perception skills and teaching vocabulary, but not necessarily for memory recall.
Coleman, Rebecca
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The role of L1 phonology in L2 morphological production: L2 English past tense production by L1 Spanish, Mandarin, and Japanese Speakers [PDF]
, 2017 This study considers the role of L1 phonological influence in L2 English past tense morphology production by native speakers of Spanish, Mandarin, and Japanese. While these L1s share similar phonological restrictions on consonant cluster formation needed
Adger +18 more
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Comprehension of implied meaning in Chinese second language listening
Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.Abstract Listening comprehension is crucial for second language (L2) communication and acquisition. However, it has received less attention than reading, given the transient nature of speech signals and the intangible cognitive processes involved in it.
Jiafan Zhang, Wei Cai
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An Analysis of Lukabaras Borrowed Verbs from English
Journal of Linguistics, Literary and Communication StudiesEnglish as an official language, has come in contact with indigenous languages in Kenya. English has therefore become one of the major donors of loanwords to these indigenous languages, Lukabaras being one of the beneficiaries.
Maxmillah Mudogo +2 more
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Morphological word structure in English and Swedish : the evidence from prosody [PDF]
, 2005 Trubetzkoy's recognition of a delimitative function of phonology, serving to signal boundaries between morphological units, is expressed in terms of alignment constraints in Optimality Theory, where the relevant constraints require specific morphological
Raffelsiefen, Renate
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Monitoring English Sandhi Linking – A Study of Polish Listeners’ L2 Perception [PDF]
, 2015 This paper presents a set of word monitoring experiments with Polish learners of English. Listeners heard short recordings of native English speech, and were instructed to respond when they recognized an English target word that had been presented on a ...
Balas, Anna +2 more
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