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Hedgehog Pillows and Squirrel Plates: Priming Semantic Structure in Children's Comprehension

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract We report three expression–picture‐matching experiments targeting preschoolers’ semantic processing. We assessed whether 3‐ and 4‐year‐olds’ interpretations of ambiguous novel noun–noun combinations (e.g., hedgehog pillow) were affected by immediate language experience and what role lexical items played in this process.
Judit Fazekas, Leone Buckle, Holly Branigan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Metalinguistic Knowledge and Language Ability in University-Level L2 Learners [PDF]

, 2007
Existing research indicates that instructed learners' L2 proficiency and their metalinguistic knowledge are moderately correlated. However, the operationalization of the construct of metalinguistic knowledge has varied somewhat across studies ...
Alderson, Anderson, Anderson, Bachman, Bialystok, Bialystok, Butler, Carroll, Carroll, Carroll, Carroll, Clapham, Collentine, Colman, de Bot, DeKeyser, DeKeyser, Dirven, Dreyer, Durrell, Durrell, Dörnyei, Dörnyei, Elder, Elder, Ellis, Ellis, Ellis, Ellis, Ellis, Erlam, Field, Green, Hatch, Hu, Hulstijn, Karen Roehr, Klapper, Macaro, McDonough, Nagata, O’Malley, Pallant, Paradis, Ranta, Renou, Robinson, Robinson, Robinson, Sawyer, Skehan, Skehan, Skehan, Skehan, Sorace, Swan, Taylor, Westney   +57 more
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Metalanguage Consciousness: Structure and Content of the Concept

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2018
A narrow and wide understanding of the metalanguage consciousness is presented in the article as a set of metalinguistic consciousness levels, which are subconscious, verbalized and creative ones, and every level demonstrates its specificity.
Evgeniy B. Ivannikov
doaj   +1 more source

Gricean metacommunication

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
Three main approaches exist for finessing the cognitive demands of Grice's model of communication (a notorious problem): namely, deflationism, modularity, and interpretivism. Here, I consider each in light of human metacommunication, a phenomenon that has been neglected in foundational discussions of Gricean communication.
Ronald J. Planer
wiley   +1 more source

Mad about the LAD [PDF]

, 2003
This is a manuscript based on conference presentations.
Vainikka, Anne Marjatta
core   +1 more source

The Many Uses of Predicates of Taste and the Challenge from Disagreement [PDF]

, 2016
In the debate between contextualism and relativism about predicates of taste, the challenge from disagreement (the objection that contextualism cannot account for disagreement in ordinary exchanges involving such predicates) has played a ...
Zeman, Dan
core   +2 more sources

Metalinguistic awareness and literacy: a study carried out among first elementary grade children / Consciência metalingüística e alfabetização: um estudo com crianças da primeira série do ensino fundamental

Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2003
This research aimed to investigate the influence of phonological, lexical and syntactic awareness in written language acquisition. The main hypothesis underlying the research was that metalinguistic abilities could facilitate written language acquisition.
Sylvia Domingos Barrera, Maria Regina Maluf   +1 more
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Making all repertoires count: Re‐envisioning TBLT through critical multilingual language awareness

The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As calls intensify for language education to provide authentic exposure to linguistic and cultural diversity—an essential condition for preparing learners to navigate an interconnected world—concerns about the declining status of additional language study reveal an important challenge.
Koen Van Gorp
wiley   +1 more source

Engineering a \u2018contact zone\u2019 through translanguaging [PDF]

, 2017
This paper presents a pilot project which uses a translanguaging approach in order to subvert the power dynamics whereby language learners, refugees and migrants are positioned as defective or ineffective communicators of a target language.
Dabre, Tejane, Helm, Francesca
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The Role of Metalinguistic Awareness in Multilingual Acquisition

Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2013
Multilingual acquisition is a nonlinear and complex dynamic process. The past several decades of research have revealed that a number of factors interact and influence the variability of the process, including, for instance, the type of third language ...
Ji-Yung Jung
doaj   +1 more source