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Music lessons improve auditory perceptual and cognitive performance in deaf children
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014 Despite advanced technologies in auditory rehabilitation of profound deafness, deaf children often exhibit delayed cognitive and linguistic development and auditory training remains a crucial element of their education.
Françoise eROCHETTE
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Laboratory PhonologyWord shadowing tasks elicit phonetic convergence to the stimulus model talkers, suggesting a tight perception-production link. The magnitude of this convergence is affected by linguistic and social factors, suggesting that the perception-production link ...
Cynthia G Clopper +2 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Latino children are projected to make up nearly one‐third of United States (US) children by 2060, and many of their caregivers speak Spanish. Prior survey research has documented communication difficulties for Spanish‐speaking caregivers of children with cancer, but contemporary qualitative data are limited.
Jenny Ruiz +6 more
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SAGE OpenThis manuscript reports on two connected studies designed to examine the effectiveness of mobile-assisted pronunciation instruction in Second Language (L2) Chinese learning, focusing on both phonetic development and the psychological factors that ...
Liu Shi, Jie Zhang
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EFL instructors’ views on the use of phonetic symbols for teaching pronunciation
AcuityAs a bottom-up approach to pronunciation teaching, the use of phonetic symbols in language teaching classrooms has been controversial. Therefore, the present study aimed at investigating the views of Turkish instructors of English as a foreign language ...
Dilek Durukan, Burcu Gokgoz-Kurt
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Ilha do Desterro, 2017 This paper presents data on the production of English vowels [i ? ? æ u ?] by Brazilian English Language Teaching (ELT) undergraduate students before and after taking a course on English Segmental Phonology.
Ronaldo Mangueira Lima Jr
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Production and perception of speaker-specific phonetic detail at word boundaries [PDF]
, 2012 Experiments show that learning about familiar voices affects speech processing in many tasks. However, most studies focus on isolated phonemes or words and do not explore which phonetic properties are learned about or retained in memory.
Smith, R., Hawkins, S.
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Digital technologies hold promise for transforming healthcare by enhancing personalized treatments and offer valuable opportunities to improve patient care. Here, we evaluated several novel, self‐administered, home‐based, digital endpoints for their association with corresponding conventional standard clinical measures (primary) in ...
Arne Mueller +14 more
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Event-related potentials reveal limited readiness to access phonetic details during word processing in dogs [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 While dogs have remarkable abilities for social cognition and communication, the number of words they learn to recognize typically remains very low. The reason for this limited capacity is still unclear.
L. Magyari +3 more
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Improving ASL fingerspelling comprehension in L2 learners with explicit phonetic instruction [PDF]
Language Teaching Research, 2017 Students acquiring American Sign Language (ASL) as a second language (L2) struggle with fingerspelling comprehension more than skilled signers. These L2 learners might be attempting to perceive and comprehend fingerspelling in a way that is different from native signers, which could negatively impact their ability to comprehend fingerspelling.
Leah C Geer, Jonathan Keane
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