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Language Change and Language Acquisition

open access: yesNordlyd: 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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Native language acquisition in children (First Language Acquisition) [PDF]

open access: yesMatn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 1998
در روند اکتساب (acquisition) زبان مادری پیرامون بسیاری از زبانهای زنده دنیا تحقیقات وسیعی صورت گرفته است و در اغلب موارد نتایج بسیار مشابهی بدست آمده است که این امر به فرضیه جهانی بودن زبان (Language Universals) قوت بیشتری می بخشد.
mansour fahim
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Multilingualism and third language acquisition: Learning and teaching trends [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The purpose of this book is to present recent studies in the field of multilingualism and L3, bringing together contributions from an international group of specialists from Austria, Canada, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and United ...
Yanaprasart, Patchareerat   +15 more
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The association between statistical learning and language development during childhood: A scoping review

open access: yesHeliyon, 2023
The statistical account of language acquisition asserts that language is learned through computations on the statistical regularities present in natural languages.
Regina Abreu   +4 more
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Influence of Vocalized Reading Practice on English Learning and Psychological Problems of Middle School Students

open access: yesFrontiers 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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The Acquisition of Polysynthetic Languages [PDF]

open access: yesLanguage and Linguistics Compass, 2014
Abstract One of the major challenges in acquiring a language is being able to use morphology as an adult would, and thus, a considerable amount of acquisition research has focused on morphological production and comprehension. Most of this research, however, has focused on the acquisition of morphology in
Barbara Kelly   +3 more
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Bootstrapping language acquisition [PDF]

open access: yesCognition, 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   +4 more
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Complexity in Language Acquisition [PDF]

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, 2013
AbstractLearning theory has frequently been applied to language acquisition, but discussion has largely focused on information theoretic problems—in particular on the absence of direct negative evidence. Such arguments typically neglect the probabilistic nature of cognition and learning in general.
Clark, Alexander, Lappin, Shalom
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The perception of intonational and emotional speech prosody produced with and without a face mask: an exploratory individual differences study

open access: yesCognitive 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

open access: yesDiscover 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   +7 more
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