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Support exchange between siblings in later life: the role of "core-kinlessness" and geographic proximity. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci
Artamonova A   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Degree of Perceived Accent in Finnish as a Second Language for Turkish Children Born in Finland

Language Learning, 2015
This study investigated whether children born in a second language (L2) environment pronounce their L2 with foreign accents and, if so, when foreign accents first emerge. This study also examined the latest age of onset (AO) of extensive L2 experience at which native L2 pronunciation is possible and explored several factors that affect the degree of ...
Minna Huotilainen, Olli Aaltonen
exaly   +2 more sources

The use of synonymous adjectives by learners of Finnish as a second language

International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, 2022
AbstractIn this study, we applyGries and Deshors’s (2014)andDeshors and Gries’s (2016)MuPDAR(F) approach to explore the use of synonymous adjectivestärkeä(i.e. “important”) andkeskeinen(i.e. “central”) in academic native and advanced learner Finnish, linking the phenomenon with the general assumptions of usage-based cognitive linguistics.
Niina Kekki, Ilmari Ivaska
openaire   +2 more sources

Training the Brain to Weight Speech Cues Differently: A Study of Finnish Second-language Users of English

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2010
Abstract Foreign-language learning is a prime example of a task that entails perceptual learning. The correct comprehension of foreign-language speech requires the correct recognition of speech sounds. The most difficult speech–sound contrasts for foreign-language learners often are the ones that have multiple phonetic cues, especially ...
Sari Ylinen   +6 more
openaire   +3 more sources

The Perception of Phonological Quantity based on Durational Cues by Native Speakers, Second-language Users and Nonspeakers of Finnish

Language and Speech, 2005
Some languages, such as Finnish, use speech-sound duration as the primary cue for a phonological quantity distinction. For second-language (L2) learners, quantity is often difficult to master if speech-sound duration plays a less important role in the phonology of their native language (L1).
Sari, Ylinen   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Using and learning Finnish as a second language in construction site interaction

2019
Recent new arrangements of integration learning for adult immigrants to Finland emphasizethe importance of work-specific language skills. In order to speed up labour marketintegration, new models of integration learning have been introduced in which languagelearning is combined with vocational education.
Lilja, Niina, Tapaninen, Terhi
openaire   +1 more source

Rhetorical Structure Theory in study of the schematic, rhetorical and paragraph structure of matriculation essays in Finnish as a second language

Proces. del Leng. Natural, 2016
Tesis doctoral en Lengua Finesa realizada por Johanna Komppa en la Universidad de Helsinki (HU) bajo la dirección del Dr. Jyrki Kalliokoski (HU) y la Dra. Susanna Shore (HU). El acto de defensa de la tesis tuvo lugar el viernes 31 de agosto de 2012 ante el tribunal formado por la Dra.
openaire   +3 more sources

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