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Processing nasals with and without consecutive context phonemes: Evidence from explicit categorization and the N100

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2013
With neurophysiological (N100) and explicit behavioural measures (two-alternative forced-choice categorization), we investigated how the processing of nasal segments of German is affected by following context phonemes and their place of articulation.
Heidrun eBien   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond the phonics debate: Blending code and context in classroom reading instruction

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This mixed‐methods study adds to the body of knowledge around current reported practices of teachers of reading in the early years of schooling in Australia. It provides a comprehensive analysis of 254 teachers' practices and perspectives as reported by the study participants.
Rachelle Naidu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long‐standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task of resolving why and how complex communication systems evolve, particularly human language, has ...
Catherine Crockford   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Two Hundred Eighty Characters of Environment: Relative Environmental Performance, Strategic Communication, and Firm Value

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Corporate environmental communication has become an essential aspect of modern business practices, as stakeholders increasingly demand transparency and accountability regarding sustainability efforts. Within this context, we examine whether firms use environmental communication on X/Twitter to offset weaker relative environmental performance ...
Ivan Russo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Differences in Immediate and Delayed Suggestibility Among Children With Dyslexia and Controls

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The primary aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between dyslexia and suggestibility in children, and the extent to which this relationship is accounted for by performance on Word Tasks. Participants comprised 95 children with dyslexia and 109 controls.
Gisli Gudjonsson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Broca and Wernicke: Epilepsy surgery in the language areas

open access: yesEpileptic Disorders, EarlyView.
Abstract Epilepsy surgery in language areas is challenged by the intricacies of presurgical workup and surgical planning. In recent decades, the view of language‐related circuitry has shifted from being localized in a few cortical centers to a distributed, dynamically interconnected system, increasing complexity.
Carmen Barba   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Final-year teacher training students' perceptions of THRASS

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Education, 2010
Our purpose was to see if THRASS (Teaching Handwriting, Reading and Spelling Skills) is a programme that should be taught to Foundation Phase (FP) and Intermediate/Senior Phases (ISP) pre-service teachers at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology ...
Janet Condy   +3 more
doaj  

Que se vea lo que se oye: a vueltas con los fonemas y las letras [PDF]

open access: yesmarcoELE. Revista de Didáctica Español Lengua Extranjera, 2011
Partiendo de lo que el refrán “La letra con sangre entra” viene a decir a quien se deje escucharlo, se abre una descripción de las diferencias radicales que se dan entre aprender a hablar y aprender a escribir.
Gómez del Estal Villarino, Mario
doaj  

Graded extent of hippocampal resection is related to neuropsychological outcomes in temporal lobe epilepsy surgery

open access: yesEpilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Surgical resection for epilepsy seeks to maximize seizure freedom while minimizing new neurocognitive impairments. Tailored resections guided by anatomoelectroclinical (AEC) hypotheses offer the possibility of sparing parts of the hippocampus.
Eliza M. Reedy   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sound and Emotion in Given Names

open access: yesNames, 2001
An analysis of the distribution of phonemes in men's and women's names confirmed several past findings, e.g., women's names were more variable and longer, contained more vowels, and were more likely to end with a vowel, especially schwa.
Cynthia Whissell
doaj   +1 more source

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