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Languages, 2021 Fifty-six Portuguese speakers born and raised in Brazil produced Portuguese words beginning in one of four plosives, /p b k ɡ/. Twenty-eight of them were monolinguals (controls), and the rest were learners of English as a foreign language (EFL).
Denise M. Osborne, Miquel Simonet
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The Flowering of Positive Psychology in Foreign Language Teaching and Acquisition Research
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 The present contribution offers an overview of a new area of research in the field of foreign language acquisition, which was triggered by the introduction of Positive Psychology (PP) (MacIntyre and Gregersen, 2012).
Jean–Marc Dewaele +3 more
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Perceptual beginnings to language acquisition
Applied Psycholinguistics, 2018 In this article, I present a selective review of research on speech perception development and its relation to reference, word learning, and other aspects of language acquisition, focusing on the empirical and theoretical contributions that have come ...
J. Werker
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Intonation words in initial intentional communication of Mandarin-speaking children
Frontiers in PsychologyIntonation words play a very important role in early childhood language development and serve as a crucial entry point for studying children’s language acquisition.
Yunqiu Zhang, Jiantao Li, Yang Zhang
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Education Sciences, 2018 The overarching purpose of our study was to compare performances of treatment and control condition students who completed a literacy-infused, inquiry-based science intervention through sixth grade as measured by a big idea assessment tool which we refer
Rafael Lara-Alecio +5 more
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More is more in language learning:reconsidering the less-is-more hypothesis [PDF]
, 2018 The Less-is-More hypothesis was proposed to explain age-of-acquisition effects in first language (L1) acquisition and second language (L2) attainment. We scrutinize different renditions of the hypothesis by examining how learning outcomes are affected by
Brooks, Patricia J., Kempe, Vera
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Native language acquisition in children (First Language Acquisition) [PDF]
Matn/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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Usage-based and emergentist approaches to language acquisition [PDF]
, 2009 It was long considered to be impossible to learn grammar based on linguistic experience alone. In the past decade, however, advances in usage-based linguistic theory, computational linguistics, and developmental psychology changed the view on this matter.
Behrens Heike +8 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objectives To identify predictors of chronic ITP (cITP) and to develop a model based on several machine learning (ML) methods to estimate the individual risk of chronicity at the timepoint of diagnosis. Methods We analyzed a longitudinal cohort of 944 children enrolled in the Intercontinental Cooperative immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) Study ...
Severin Kasser +6 more
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Language Acquisition in Computers [PDF]
, 2012 This project explores the nature of language acquisition in computers, guided by techniques similar to those used in children. While existing natural language processing methods are limited in scope and understanding, our system aims to gain an ...
Belzner, Megan +2 more
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