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Speech, language, social communication, and communication assessments in Rett syndrome: A systematic review

Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.
This systematic overview highlights communication impairment as a defining feature of Rett syndrome, with expressive language consistently affected more severely than receptive language and social ability. Across the literature, most studies rely on caregiver‐reported measures, with relatively few employing direct or objective measurements of speech ...
Lucas N. Raniolo, Ruth O. Braden, Jana von Hehn, John Christodoulou, David N. Lieberman, David J. Amor, Adam P. Vogel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of a Phonological Awareness and Alphabet Knowledge Intervention on Four Year Old Kindergarten Children [PDF]

, 2011
Phonological awareness and alphabet knowledge are two of the strongest predictors of reading acquisition. Many New Zealand children are entering school with low levels of emergent literacy skills, so an important area of study is how to boost the ...
Rachmani, Rachel Margaret
core  

Father–Child Play: What Types of Play Do Fathers Engage in With Their Daughters and Sons?

Family Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study aimed to investigate the types of play that fathers in Turkey engage in with their children aged 4–6 years and to examine whether these plays differ according to the child's gender. Background Despite the importance of fathers in child development, limited evidence exists on father–child play and gender differences in play
Hayriye Kamrak, Merve Canbeldek Erol, Ahmet Erol   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Phonological short term-memory, working memory and foreign language performance in intensive language learning. [PDF]

, 2008
In our research we addressed the question what the relationship is between phonological short-term and working memory capacity and performance in an end-of-year reading, writing, listening, speaking and use of English test.
Sáfár, Anna, Kormos, Judit
core   +2 more sources

Syntactic awareness as a mediator of reading–writing relations in young Chinese L2 learners

Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.
Abstract This longitudinal study examined the mediating role of syntactic awareness in reading–writing relations among young learners of Chinese as a second language (L2). A total of 177 students from non‐Chinese‐speaking backgrounds in Hong Kong were assessed annually from Grades 4 to 6 on word‐level literacy (character reading, spelling), sentence ...
Yu Ka Wong, Dongbo Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Pre‐Task Explicit Instruction, Input Modality, and Working Memory in L2 Oral Self‐Repair

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the central role of tasks in language education and ensuing research documenting how task‐related variables might affect language performance and learning, it remains unclear whether pre‐task explicit instruction, input modality, and working memory (WM) influence how learners monitor and repair grammatical structures in real‐time ...
Reza Yadollahpour, Mostafa Pourhaji, Michael Sadeghi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Phonological complexity, speech style, and individual differences influence ASR performance for Tarifit

Scientific Reports
This study examines individual differences through the lens of automatic speech recognition (ASR) transfer (applying ASR trained on one language to a new language) from Arabic to Tarifit, an under-resourced Amazigh language with typologically rare ...
Mohamed Afkir, Georgia Zellou
doaj   +1 more source

Take an Introductory Linguistics Course; It May Increase Your Language Learning Ability

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can general linguistics knowledge be used to better learn a new language? This exploratory study is concerned with the potential advantageous transfer of general linguistics knowledge to the learning of a new, additional foreign language.
Kiyono Fujinaga‐Gordon, Mandy Simons, Seth Wiener   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Vowel Epenthesis in Monosyllabic Words: A Perspective from Optimality Theory on Yemeni, Hijazi, and Quranic Arabic

Al-Lisaniyyat
This study examines vowel epenthesis (VE) in monosyllabic words in Quranic Arabic (QA), Yemeni Dialects (YD), and Hijazi Dialects (HD) using Optimality Theory (OT).
Nadhim Aldubai
doaj   +3 more sources

L2 Chinese Grammatical Acquisition and Processing: A Substantive and Methodological Review

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a systematic review of 92 empirical studies on Chinese as a second language (CSL) in grammatical processing and development, synthesizing their substantive foci and methodological characteristics. The results reveal consistent scholarly attention to cross‐linguistic topics, with less focus on features that are distinctively
Shaohua Fang, Yi Xu, Jiani He, Jia Wang
wiley   +1 more source