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Grammatical structures in mathematics: a personal view

open access: yesTeaching Statistics, EarlyView.
Abstract The ability to read, write, and speak mathematics is critical to students becoming comfortable with statistical models and skills. Faster development of those skills may act as encouragement to further engage with the discipline. Vocabulary has been the focus of scholarship in existing literature on the linguistics of mathematics and ...
Tess O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Catching a CAPTCHA: the impact of variable input on the processing of emerging orthographic representations

open access: yesLanguage and Cognition
Variability inherent to handwriting has been suggested to help establish more robust letter representations than other methods (e.g., typing). The present study tests whether encoding letter strings from a novel alphabet becomes more resistant to ...
Olga Solaja   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Drawing Animals in the Paleolithic: The Effect of Perspective and Abbreviation on Animal Recognition and Aesthetic Appreciation

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The majority of Pleistocene figurative cave art in Western Europe consists of line drawings depicting large herbivores from the side view, and outlines were sometimes abbreviated to the head‐neck‐dorsal line. It is often assumed that the side view was used because it facilitates animal recognition compared to other views, and that abbreviated ...
Murillo Pagnotta   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Americanization of Nigerian English spelling and punctuation

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract Spelling is the most standardized level of language, and prescriptive spelling norms in former British colonies often advocate adherence to British spelling norms which differs from the local linguistic reality. Hence, recent research on the evolution of postcolonial Englishes and the Americanization of Englishes worldwide has questioned the ...
Temitayo Olatoye
wiley   +1 more source

Sociolinguistic variation in the rhythm of Nigerian English speech

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract There is a dearth of research on speech rhythm in Nigerian English, and scholars have differing views on its nature, ranging from being syllable‐timed to tone‐timed. Apart from the fact that the majority of few available studies were conducted more than a decade ago, the exact nature of speech rhythm in Nigerian English remains contentious ...
Folajimi Oyebola, Osemudiamhe Ilekura
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of audio versus audiovisual stimuli with or without face masking on judgements about different varieties of Asian English

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores ways in which multilingual English listeners react to and rate three varieties of Asian English in three presentational modes: audio only, audiovisual and audiovisual with a face mask. Using a speech intelligibility framework, the study examines the extent to which presentational mode affects intelligibility and listener ...
Jette G. Hansen Edwards, Mary L. Zampini
wiley   +1 more source

Orthographic influences on phonological processing in children with and without reading difficulties: an eye-tracking study [PDF]

open access: hybrid
Lauren S. Baron   +5 more
openalex   +1 more source

An acoustic study on monophthongs in Central Australian Aboriginal English

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract We present an acoustic analysis of monophthongal vowel production in Central Australian Aboriginal English (CAAE), providing one of the first systematic examinations of this variety spoken by English‐as‐a‐first‐language (L1) speakers in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, Australia.
Yizhou Wang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Orthographic and phonological processing in developing readers revealed by ERPs

open access: green, 2016
Marianna D. Eddy   +3 more
openalex   +2 more sources

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