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Developmental work on ostensive communication calls for reconsidering existing theoretical accounts within a comprehensive framework of early pragmatics and its development. In this paper, we propose a new perspective on the ontogeny and development of ostensive communication as underpinned by a process of knowledge and representational redescription ...
Edoardo Vaccargiu, Diana Mazzarella
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A conceptual win‐win struggle between swiftness and formal constraints
In the concert of human expressions - including an individual human’s expression - the ability to use different modalities, be they bodily based means or artefact-based expressions such as pictures, computer icons, logograms and syllabograms, there will
Pettersson, John Sören,
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Most studies on bilingual children's metalinguistic awareness assess metalinguistic awareness using monolingual tasks. This may not reflect how a bilingual's languages dynamically interact with each other in creating metalinguistic representations.
Torregrossa, Jacopo +2 more
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Language dominance predicts cognate effects and metalinguistic awareness in preschool bilinguals. [PDF]
Robinson Anthony JJD +3 more
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Referential Indeterminacy and De Re Thoughts
ABSTRACT Referential indeterminacy may seem to leave little room for de re or singular thoughts about ordinary objects. I argue that this impression is misleading. We can direct our thoughts at particular objects, even though there is no fact of the matter as to which objects are referred to by the singular terms purporting to stand for them.
Bahram Assadian
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The Nature and Types of Metalinguistic Awareness in Developing Writers
Researchers theorise metalinguistic awareness as essential to learning to write. Children writing must have the ability to think about language as an abstraction, a resource for making meaning, and reflect on it.
Newton, Moira Ellen
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A pesquisa teve como objetivo investigar a influência da consciência fonológica, lexical e sintática, sobre a aquisição da linguagem escrita. Esperava-se que as crianças com níveis mais elevados de consciência metalingüística apresentassem desempenho ...
Sylvia Domingos Barrera +1 more
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ABSTRACT This paper is about the hierarchy view: that each word has infinitely many meanings, arranged into levels, with the level n meaning serving as its semantic value when it occurs embedded to degree n in indirect or attitude reporting verbs. Departing from the famous debates over the bare tenability of the hierarchy view, I focus on whether there
Mark McCullagh
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Metalinguistic Awareness and Multilingualism in the Norwegian EFL Classroom: An Untapped Resource? [PDF]
Norway’s linguistic diversity has increased at a rapid pace over the past several decades. Many students who speak minority languages at home begin school already bilingual in Norwegian and their home language(s), which has implications for language ...
Walla, Dianna
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Metalinguistic Awareness Contributions: Evidence from Spelling in Korean and English [PDF]
Metalinguistic awareness skills (i.e., phonological awareness, orthographic awareness, morphological awareness) contribute to children s spelling as well as reading.
Yeon, Sookkyung
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