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Bilingualism Enhances Metalinguistic Awareness in Autism: Extending the Two‐Dimensional Grammaticality Judgment Task

open access: yesAutism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bilingualism has been associated with enhanced metalinguistic awareness (MA), the ability to reflect upon language. However, findings remain mixed, and little is known about how proficiency in the most proficient (L1) and second‐best language (L2) contribute to MA, especially in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), who often present ...
Pauline Wolfer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unfolding Visual Lexical Decision in Time

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2012
Visual lexical decision is a classical paradigm in psycholinguistics, and numerous studies have assessed the so-called “lexicality effect" (i.e., better performance with lexical than non-lexical stimuli).
Laura Barca, G. Pezzulo
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Quantitative but Not Qualitative Differences: A Longitudinal Analysis of Grammatical Marker Development in Mandarin‐Speaking Autistic Children

open access: yesAutism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Past research has revealed large differences between typically developing (TD) and autistic children's language development. However, little is known about whether such differences are quantitative or qualitative, especially in the morphosyntactic domain.
Ziyan Meng   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the dissociation of word/nonword repetition effects in lexical decision: An evidence accumulation account

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
A number of models of visual-word recognition assume that the repetition of an item in a lexical decision experiment increases that item’s familiarity/wordness.
Manuel ePerea   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

MEANINGS OF MODALVERBEN CONSTRUCTIONS IN GERMAN SENTENCES AND THEIR EQUIVALENCES IN INDONESIAN [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This study aims to describe: (1) Modalverben constructions in German sentences, (2) meanings of Modalverben in German sentences, and (3) equivalences of Modalverben in German sentences in Indonesian. This was a qualitative descriptive study.
Triyono , Sulis
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Exploring personality traits and mental toughness in early career teachers in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract While some teachers thrive, in similar circumstances other teachers encounter considerable difficulties. This is particularly concerning in England, where high numbers of teachers with five or fewer years' experience leave the profession to take another job outside of teaching, and pupil numbers are outpacing teacher numbers (Bryan & Price ...
Joanne E. Taberner, Sarah MacQuarrie
wiley   +1 more source

Acquisition of L2 English Negative Quantifiers without Equivalent Lexical Items in an L1

open access: yesTheory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition
This article investigates how second language learners interpret a scope bearing item in the target language. According to Sprouse (2006), L2 learners’ task is to relabel their native language’s lexical items in line with the features of the target ...
Masaaki Kamiya, Zhaosen Guo
doaj   +1 more source

LEXTALE_CH: A quick, character-based proficiency test for Mandarin Chinese [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Research in second language acquisition suggests that objective performance-based assessments may provide more reliable and valid measures of second language proficiency than subjective self-ratings. To measure proficiency in English as a second language,
Chan, I. Lei, Chang, Charles B.
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The role of the frontal cortex in memory: an investigation of the Von Restorff effect [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Evidence from neuropsychology and neuroimaging indicate that the pre-frontal cortex (PFC) plays an important role in human memory. Although frontal patients are able to form new memories, these memories appear qualitatively different from those of ...
Alexander   +64 more
core   +2 more sources

Different influences on lexical priming for integrative, thematic, and taxonomic relations

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2012
Word pairs may be integrative (i.e., combination of two concepts into one meaningful entity; e.g., fruit—cake), thematically related (i.e., connected in time and place; e.g., party—cake), and/or taxonomically related (i.e., shared features and category ...
Lara L. Jones, Sabrina Golonka
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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