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Language Change and Language Acquisition

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004
The aim of this paper is to present diachronic changes in terms of the conditions of first language acquisition. Grammars, seen as mental organs, may change between two generations.
Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir
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Is musical ability related to second-language acquisition? A meta-analysis. [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci
Rachel Marlene Thompson, Lauren K. Salig, L. Robert Slevc   +2 more
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The association between statistical learning and language development during childhood: A scoping review

Heliyon, 2023
The statistical account of language acquisition asserts that language is learned through computations on the statistical regularities present in natural languages.
Regina Abreu, Svetlana Postarnak, Valentin Vulchanov, Giosuè Baggio, Mila Vulchanova   +4 more
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Influence of Vocalized Reading Practice on English Learning and Psychological Problems of Middle School Students

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
The purpose of this study is to improve the English learning anxiety and learning effect for middle school students. From the perspective of educational psychology, the influence of vocalized reading practice on the English learning of students is ...
Hongyan Zhang, Xianghua Han
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Bootstrapping language acquisition [PDF]

Cognition, 2017
The semantic bootstrapping hypothesis proposes that children acquire their native language through exposure to sentences of the language paired with structured representations of their meaning, whose component substructures can be associated with words and syntactic structures used to express these concepts. The child's task is then to learn a language-
Abend, Omri, Kwiatkowski, Tom, Smith, Nathaniel J., Goldwater, Sharon, Steedman, Mark   +4 more
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The perception of intonational and emotional speech prosody produced with and without a face mask: an exploratory individual differences study

Cognitive Research, 2022
Face masks affect the transmission of speech and obscure facial cues. Here, we examine how this reduction in acoustic and facial information affects a listener’s understanding of speech prosody. English sentence pairs that differed in their intonational (
Chloe Sinagra, Seth Wiener
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Investigating teachers’ use of literacy-infused science strategies: A mixed methods study

Discover Education, 2023
The 2019 science results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress showed that 8th-grade students, especially economically challenged and emergent bilingual students, made few gains in science and reading achievement.
Allison M. Esparza, Kenneth Fleming, Henan Zhang, Huiwen Pang, Cindy Guerrero, Rafael Lara-Alecio, Beverly J. Irby, Fuhui Tong   +7 more
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Use of the first-acquired language modulates pupil size in the processing of island constraint violations

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionTraditional studies of the population called “heritage speakers” (HS) have treated this group as distinct from other bilingual populations, e.g., simultaneous or late bilinguals (LB), focusing on group differences in the competencies of the ...
Gita Martohardjono, Gita Martohardjono, Michael A. Johns, Pamela Franciotti, Daniela Castillo, Ilaria Porru, Cass Lowry   +6 more
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The Perception of Postalveolar English Obstruents by Spanish Speakers Learning English as a Foreign Language in Mexico

Languages, 2020
The present study deals with the perception (identification and discrimination) of an English phonemic contrast (/t∫/–/∫/, as in cheat and sheet) by speakers of two Mexican varieties of Spanish who are learning English as a foreign language.
Mariela López Velarde, Miquel Simonet
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Foreign language teaching: A study of teachers’ beliefs about effective teaching and learning methodologies [PDF]

Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2016
This study reveals the beliefs of 25 foreign language teachers about effective teaching and learning practices and also evaluates the impact of a teacher training workshop on their beliefs.
Farid Saydee
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