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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 This study examined how vocabulary, syntactic knowledge, and orthographic knowledge are related to comprehension monitoring and whether comprehension monitoring mediates the relations between these language skills and reading comprehension.
Aiping Zhao +5 more
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Listy klinicke logopedie, 2022 The article aims to highlight language difficulties and, more specifically, speech/language comprehension difficulties in persons with some neurocognitive disorders.
Lucie Nohová, Kateřina Vitásková
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Syntactic Awareness and Reading Comprehension in Emergent Bilingual Children
Languages, 2023 The present study investigated the role of syntactic awareness in reading comprehension among English–French bilinguals learning French as an additional language in Canadian French immersion programs.
Diana Burchell +4 more
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Anticipatory deaccenting in language comprehension [PDF]
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2014 We evaluated the hypothesis that listeners can generate expectations about upcoming input using anticipatory deaccenting, in which the absence of a nuclear pitch accent on an utterance-new noun is licensed by the subsequent repetition of that noun (e.g. Drag the SQUARE with the house to the TRIangle with the house).
Kathleen, Carbary +5 more
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A Predictive Model of Reading Comprehension Based on MEG Imaginary Coherence Functional Connections
Taiyuan Ligong Daxue xuebao, 2023 Purposes Reading comprehension is one of the most important cognitive abilities of human beings. Objective indicators should be provided in order to evaluate human reading comprehension ability.
Limin ZHAO +3 more
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A language-specific comprehension strategy [PDF]
Nature, 1983 Infants acquire whatever language is spoken in the environment into which they are born. The mental capability of the newborn child is not biased in any way towards the acquisition of one human language rather than another. Because psychologists who attempt to model the process of language comprehension are interested in the structure of the human mind,
Cutler, A. +3 more
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Semantic Entropy in Language Comprehension [PDF]
Entropy, 2019 Language is processed on a more or less word-by-word basis, and the processing difficulty induced by each word is affected by our prior linguistic experience as well as our general knowledge about the world. Surprisal and entropy reduction have been independently proposed as linking theories between word processing difficulty and probabilistic language
Noortje J. Venhuizen +2 more
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Autism and Developmental Language Impairments, 2020 Background and aims The most severe problems in language manifest as difficulties in comprehending oral language. These difficulties are persistent and expose individuals to several risk factors.
Sirpa Tarvainen +2 more
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Is Listening Comprehension in a Foreign Language Affected by Age?
Journal of Language and Education, 2022 Research background: The development of listening comprehension in a foreign language is a complex process, interrelated with the progress in other language skills, and could be affected by numerous variables, including age. This study responds to middle-
Eva Stankova +2 more
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Oral language comprehension of young adults with low-level reading comprehension
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Significant difficulties in reading comprehension, despite attendance of compulsory schooling, are a worldwide phenomenon. While previous research on adults with low literacy skills focused primarily on their reading ability, less is known about their ...
Irit Bar-Kochva +7 more
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