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Redescribing early pragmatics

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

A conceptual win‐win struggle between swiftness and formal constraints

open access: yes, 2019
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,
core  

Boosting bilingual metalinguistic awareness under dual language activation: Some implications for bilingual education

open access: yes, 2022
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
core   +1 more source

Language dominance predicts cognate effects and metalinguistic awareness in preschool bilinguals. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Biling Educ Biling, 2022
Robinson Anthony JJD   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Referential Indeterminacy and De Re Thoughts

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

The Nature and Types of Metalinguistic Awareness in Developing Writers

open access: yes, 2022
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
core  

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

open access: yesPsicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2003
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
doaj   +1 more source

Pulling Down the Hierarchy

open access: yesPacific 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
wiley   +1 more source

Metalinguistic Awareness and Multilingualism in the Norwegian EFL Classroom: An Untapped Resource? [PDF]

open access: yes
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
core   +1 more source

Metalinguistic Awareness Contributions: Evidence from Spelling in Korean and English [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Metalinguistic awareness skills (i.e., phonological awareness, orthographic awareness, morphological awareness) contribute to children s spelling as well as reading.
Yeon, Sookkyung
core   +1 more source

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