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The conscious awareness and underlying representation of syllabic stress in skilled adult readers and adults with developmental dyslexia [PDF]
The relationship between phonemic awareness and literacy ability is well established in the developmental and adult reading literatures. Recent research indicates that awareness of the rhythmic patterns present in spoken language (i.e.
Mundy, Ian R.
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Creating a new town koine : children and language change in Milton Keynes. [PDF]
, 2000 Koineization – the development of a new, mixed variety following dialect contact – has well-documented outcomes. However, there have been few studies of the phenomenon actually in progress.
Williams, Ann, Kerswill, Paul
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Gesturing While Writing: An Alternate Perspective on Mimetic Prosody
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Paul Magee
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Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.Background Reading comprehension is critical for academic success, yet many children with persistent decoding difficulties struggle to achieve it. This study examined whether a multicomponent literacy intervention is effective in improving reading comprehension and whether any gains in comprehension are mediated by improvements in word reading and ...
Cameron Downing +6 more
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The role and efficacy of phonics instruction in the early literacy development of young Taiwanese EFL learners [PDF]
In recent years, phonics instruction in early literacy education has gained in popularity due to its critical role in facilitating phonological awareness and processing skills, said to enable the self-teaching mechanism inherent in an alphabetic ...
Kuo, Ling-Chun
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Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What are captions, and why do they matter? Captioning is a text‐based tool that makes it easier for those who do not sufficiently recognize spoken language on the screen to understand TV and films. Furthermore, the captions help viewers understand the screen content, notwithstanding the context they are in.
Jan‐Eerik Leppaenen
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, 2010 This is the first investigation of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) in Gulf-Arabic (GA) speaking children. The thesis consists of two main sections, in the first one, I discuss the definitions of SLI and the various theories put forward to account for ...
Shaalan, S.
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Social Threat as Motivation for Phonetic Divergence: Evidence From Nonbinary Participants
Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether nonbinary speakers’ imitation of extended voice onset time (VOT) in word‐initial English /p, t, k/ is impacted by whether they believe they are listening to a nonbinary or binary model speaker. Forty‐five nonbinary American English speakers participated in an online VOT shadowing task, and the results find that ...
Jack Rechsteiner
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Speaker Perceptions of Americanisms in Nigerian English
Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the perceptions of Americanisms among three generations of Nigerians. While prior research has provided quantitative evidence for American influence in contemporary Nigerian English, the role of language beliefs and ideologies in mediating such changes remains underexplored.
Temitayo Olatoye
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Classification of Morphological Changes in the Borrowing Process from Turkish into Persian [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2014 Language as a productive and dynamic phenomenon has been changing along with man’s progress. A change frequently observed in most languages is borrowing due to extensive relationships among people of different languages.
Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini-Maasoum +2 more
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