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Language and Cognition in Gaelic-English Young Adult Bilingual Speakers: A Positive Effect of School Immersion Program on Attentional and Grammatical Skills [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
The present study investigates linguistics and cognitive effects of bilingualism with a minority language acquired through school medium education. If bilingualism has an effect on cognition and language abilities, regardless of language prestige or ...
Maria Garraffa   +3 more
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Going Native: Long-Running Television Serials in the UK [PDF]

open access: yesSeries. International journal of tv serial narratives, 2018
This article examines in detail the development of the long-running serial in the UK, from its beginnings on radio in the 1940s, through the move to television in the mid 1950s and then up to the present day.
Douglas Chalmers, Hugh O'Donell
doaj   +4 more sources

Against Exclusionary Gaelic Language Policy: A Response to Ó Giollagáin and Caimbeul

open access: yesScottish Affairs, 2022
This article considers a range of weaknesses and deficiencies in the article ‘Moving Beyond Asocial Minority-Language Policy’ by Conchúr Ó Giollagáin and Iain Caimbeul and the underlying research study on which it was based.
Wilson McLeod   +5 more
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Scottish Gaelic political terminology – Term formation in the Scottish Parliament Annual Report

open access: yesLingBaW, 2022
This paper analyses the Scottish Gaelic political terminology used by the Scottish Parliament, based on the translations of three Annual Reports.
Lena Krochmann
doaj   +1 more source

Tracking Biliteracy Skills in Students Attending Gaelic Medium Education: Effects of Learning Experience on Overall Reading Skills

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
This study describes the validation of a reading assessment developed for speakers of Scottish Gaelic, an endangered language spoken in Scotland. The test is designed to investigate the areas of reading for understanding, reading errors and reading speed.
Euan Dickson   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Endangered languages: The case of Irish Gaelic [PDF]

open access: yesTraining, Language and Culture, 2018
Research into why some languages die and why other languages survive is an important area of linguistic and cultural research. Languages represent a culture and when the language dies, more often than not, the culture it expresses dies with it.
Peter McGee
doaj   +1 more source

Scottish Gaelic Studies: Language, Linguistics, and Literature

open access: yesYear's Work in Modern Language Studies, 2023
This is a critical bibliographical survey of academic studies published in 2022 in the area of Scottish Gaelic Studies.
Emma Dymock, Kate L. Mathis
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Transatlantic Context for Gaelic Language Revitalisation

open access: yesStudia Celtica Posnaniensia, 2020
The notion of the ‘new speaker’, and its salience particularly in relation to minority language sociolinguistics, has become increasingly prevalent in the last decade. The term refers to individuals who have acquired an additional language to high levels
Stuart S. Dunmore
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Language Revitalisation in Gaelic Scotland

open access: yesJournal of International Students, 2021
Through their native languages, certain groups of people claim political, social, geographical, and ethnic identity and a legal base for their existence.
Woloyat Tabasum Niroo
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Dialect variation in Scottish Gaelic nominal morphology: A quantitative study

open access: yesGlossa, 2020
This paper presents a dialectometric analysis of Scottish Gaelic morphology, with a focus on the noun phrase, using previously unpublished data from the Linguistic Survey of Scotland.
Pavel Iosad, William Lamb
doaj   +2 more sources

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