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‘Team Speech Sounds’—How Speech and Language Therapists Work With Parents of Young Children With Speech Sound Disorder: A Focus Group Study

open access: yesInternational Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Speech sound disorder (SSD) is common amongst children on speech and language therapy caseloads, with most of these children being between 2 and 6 years old. SSD that persists into a child's school years can have a lasting impact on literacy development, socio‐emotional outcomes and well‐being.
Katherine Pritchard   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Two dimensions of prominence [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Wagner P, Portele T. Two dimensions of prominence. In: Proceedings of the ESCA Workshop on Dialogue and Prosody. Eindhoven, The Netherlands; 1999.Prosody fulfills a variety of functions in dialogues.
Wagner, Petra ; https://orcid.org/   +1 more
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Portuguese and German Intonation Contours in a Two-Way Immersion School

open access: yesLanguages
This study investigates the intonation contours of neutral yes–no interrogatives produced by simultaneous bilingual children in their two native languages.
Catalina Torres
doaj   +1 more source

Neutral Forms of Be as Default Forms: The Utility of Underspecification and Blocking in a Welsh Morphosyntactic Phenomenon

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 91-116, March 2026.
Abstract In Welsh, in certain tenses, unique forms of the verb for ‘be’ are used in positive clauses. These specialised forms of ‘be’ are incompatible with positive main‐clause declarative complementizers, despite their apparent featural compatibility. For most speakers, they are also blocked from if‐clauses; although, I report on data regarding their ...
Frances Dowle
wiley   +1 more source

Encoding information structure in Yucatec Maya : on the Interplay of prosody and syntax [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The aim of this paper is to outline the means for encoding information structure in Yucatec Maya. Yucatec Maya is a tone language, displaying a three-fold opposition in the tonal realization of syllables.
Verhoeven, Elisabeth   +2 more
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Can Infants Perceive and Learn New Information from Extended Reality?

open access: yesDevelopmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT As global societies increasingly embrace digital technologies, their integration into early childhood education becomes crucial for achieving United Nations sustainable developmental goals. The present study investigates whether extended reality (XR) environments effectively support infants' perception and learning capabilities. A total of 144
Liquan Liu   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aspects of North Swedish intonational phonology. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The present contribution discusses features of North Swedish intonational phonology. One characteristic feature is final element stress in compounds occurring particularly in dialects of North Botnia. The idea proposed here is that the accentual pattern (
Bruce, Gösta
core  

Cross-linguistic comparison of prosody, syntax and information structure in a production experiment on localising expressions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Féry C, Skopeteas S, Hörnig R. Cross-linguistic comparison of prosody, syntax and information structure in a production experiment on localising expressions. Transactions of the Philological Society.
Stavros Skopeteas   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

The effect of multimodal input on L2 learners' reading comprehension: A preregistered eye‐tracking study

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, Volume 110, Issue 1, Page 210-239, Spring 2026.
Abstract Multimodal materials (e.g., written text supplemented by images and/or audio) are commonplace in language classrooms. While they have been consistently shown to be beneficial for vocabulary acquisition, the efficacy of multimodal input in scaffolding text comprehension is less clear. Conflicting findings have also been reported in terms of the
Tetiana Tytko   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Phonology or non phonology? That is the question (in intonation)

open access: yesEstudios de Fonética Experimental, 2008
The paper would like to challenge the basic tenet of Autosegmental Theory of Intonation, i.e. that in non-tonal languages it is possible to deal with intonation in phonological terms. Therefore, the traditional criteria normally adopted in phonological tradition (discreteness and distinctiveness) are tested.
openaire   +4 more sources

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