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Short-Term Memory for Auditory Temporal Patterns and Meaningless Sentences Predicts Learning of Foreign Word Forms

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2022
The ability to accurately repeat meaningless nonwords or lists of spoken digits in correct order have been associated with vocabulary acquisition in both first and second language.
Elisabet Service   +4 more
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Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics

open access: yesHandbook of Japanese Semantics and Pragmatics, 2015
Comprising twelve substantial volumes, the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics (HJLL) series provides a comprehensive survey of practically all the major research areas of Japanese linguistics on an unprecedented scale, together with surveys ...
M. Shibatani, Taro Kageyama
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A large-scale repository of spoken narratives in French, German and Spanish from Cantonese-speaking learners

open access: yesScientific Data, 2023
Interdisciplinary research on foreign language learning has important implications for learning and education. In this paper, we present the Repository of Third Language (L3) Spoken Narratives from Modern Language Learners in Hong Kong (L3HK Repository).
Xin Kang   +3 more
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Language and nonlanguage factors in foreign language learning: evidence for the learning condition hypothesis

open access: yesnpj Science of Learning, 2021
The question of why native and foreign languages are learned with a large performance gap has prompted language researchers to hypothesize that they are subserved by fundamentally different mechanisms.
Xin Kang   +3 more
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The Entropy of Words - Learnability and Expressivity across More than 1000 Languages

open access: yesEntropy, 2017
The choice associated with words is a fundamental property of natural languages. It lies at the heart of quantitative linguistics, computational linguistics and language sciences more generally.
C. Bentz   +3 more
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Mountain linguistics

open access: yesLanguage and Linguistics Compass, 2020
Language use in mountainous areas often exhibits special social dynamics. This contribution sketches some of the most salient patterns of language use in upland Southeast Asia ,the greater Himalayas, the Caucasus, the Central Andes, the New Guinea ...
M. Urban
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Signed languages and cognitive linguistics

open access: yes, 2021
This chapter offers an overview of signed language linguistics. We begin with a historical perspective. A brief description of American Sign Language (ASL) provides the background on linguistic analyses of signed languages.
Wilcox, Sherman   +1 more
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The Effect of Linguistic Homogenization on English Proficiency of Students, Case Study: Junior Students of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, 2018

open access: yesJournal of Community Health Research, 2020
Introduction: Iranian students of health need to bone up on their academic English to be able to read the English sources of health as a factor contributing to community health promotion.
Kazem Barzegar   +3 more
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Languages mentioned in Crash Course Linguistics

open access: yes, 2021
The table below outlines the languages that feature in Crash Course Linguistics. For each episode we list both illustrative examples and other languages mentioned.
Lauren Gawne (4635529)   +2 more
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A psycholinguistic study of intergroup bias and its cultural propagation

open access: yesScientific Reports
Intergroup bias is the tendency for people to inflate positive regard for their in-group and derogate the out-group. Across two online experiments (N = 922) this study revisits the methodological premises of research on language as a window into ...
Daniel Schmidtke, Victor Kuperman
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