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Measuring children's metalinguistic awareness

Language Teaching
AbstractResearch into young learners' metalinguistic awareness has led to both definitions of the construct and key findings about its role in children's cognitive and linguistic development. I briefly summarise this research before introducing two established theoretical models that can help us understand the concept of metalinguistic awareness more ...
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Anselm's Temporal‐Ontological Proof

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In his Reply to Gaunilo, Anselm presented two additional arguments for the existence of God beyond those that appear in the Proslogion. In “The Logical Structure of Anselm's Argument,” Robert M. Adams isolates each. One, he develops into a modal ontological argument along the lines of other 20th century ontological arguments (e.g., those of ...
Daniel Rubio
wiley   +1 more source

Reference and Response [PDF]

, 2010
A standard view of reference holds that a speaker's use of a name refers to a certain thing in virtue of the speaker's associating a condition with that use that singles the referent out.
deRosset, Louis
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The Role of Metalinguistic Awareness in Multilingual Acquisition

Working Papers in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, 2015
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
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Pulling Down the Hierarchy

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
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 teacher explanation [PDF]

Language Awareness, 1997
In Hong Kong in the past five years, there has been a marked increase of interest in the language awareness of teachers (their ‘metalinguistic awareness'). This interest has been stimulated partly by a concern about declining standards of student achievement in both Chinese and English.
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Inquiry and Logical Form

Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Joint inquiry requires agents to exchange public content about some target domain, which in turn requires them to track which content a linguistic form contributes to a conversation. But, often, the inquiry delivers a necessary truth. For example, if we are inquiring whether a particular bird, Tweety, is a woodpecker, and discover that it is ...
Una Stojnić, Matthew Stone
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Developing reading-writing connections; the impact of explicit instruction of literary devices on the quality of children's narrative writing [PDF]

, 2007
The purpose of this collaborative schools-university study was to investigate how the explicit instruction of literary devices during designated literacy sessions could improve the quality of children's narrative writing. A guiding question for the study
Anderson M., Applebee A., Bakhtin M., Bereiter C., Bershon B., Brown R., Buchanan J., Cairney T., Cairney T., Calkins L., Cochran-Smith M., Crossley-Holland K., Cullinan B., Dyson A. H., Dyson A. H., Flower L., Frater G., Furlong J., Garfeld L., Gates S., Gibbons A., Graham S., Graves D., Graves D., Harris K., Harwayne S., Hayes J. R., Hughes T., Kilworth G., King J., Kress G., Kroll B. M., Lancia P., Leavell A., Lewis M., Lobel A., May H., Maybin J., Merriam S. B., Miles M., Murphy J., Murpurgo M., Murpurgo M., Myhill D., Paramour S., Perera K., Purves A. C., Rosen M., Rosenblatt L. M., Rosenblatt L. M., Short K., Smith J., Thompson E., Tierney R., Vygotsky L. S., Wagner J., Webb N., Wells G., Whittaker R., Wray D.   +59 more
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Independent Effects of Age, Education, Verbal Working Memory, Motor Speed of Processing, Locality, and Morphosyntactic Category on Verb‐Related Morphosyntactic Production: Evidence From Healthy Aging

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the role of locality (a task/material‐related variable), demographic factors (age, education, and sex), cognitive capacities (verbal working memory [WM], verbal short‐term memory [STM], speed of processing [SOP], and inhibition), and morphosyntactic category (time reference and grammatical aspect) in verb‐related ...
Marielena Soilemezidi, Maki Kubota, Marina Chrisikopoulou, Valantis Fyndanis   +3 more
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Developmental Patterns of English Alphabet Knowledge in Chinese–English Emergent Bilingual Children

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 3, July/August/September 2026.
The graphical abstract compares the developmental patterns of alphabet knowledge between Chinese‐English bilingual children and established monolingual norms. The study highlights a distinct developmental pattern, emphasizing the need for alphabet instruction that accounts for specific cultural and linguistic contexts for bilingual children.
Somin Park
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