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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 Relationship Between Lexical and Phonological Development in French-Speaking Children: A Longitudinal Study. [PDF]
J Speech Lang Hear Res, 2020 Kehoe MM +3 more
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Development of phonological knowledge within phonological representation
, 2019 Cognitive phonologists tend to describe the concept of phoneme theoretically, without addressing its content. However, scholars investigating development of reading skills discuss phonological representation - the construct containing various types of knowledge required for speech development. According to Sutherland (2006), phonological representation
Tomić, Diana, Geld, Renata
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sociolinguistic research has long documented the appropriation of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) across media including film, music and advertising. In this article, we add to this body of work by exploring the digital recontextualisation of a subset of AAVE features as ‘TikTok/internet language’.
Christian Ilbury, Rianna Walcott
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Children's acquisition of science terms: simple exposure is insufficient [PDF]
, 2007 The ability of school children (N = 233) to acquire new scientific vocabulary was examined. Children from two age groups (M = 4;8 and M = 6;5) were introduced to previously unknown words in an educational video.
Best, R, Braisby, N, Dockrell, Julie
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite evidence that gender‐inclusive language represents genders more equally than generic masculines, it still faces resistance, possibly due to its perceived association with left‐wing politics. This study explores the social meaning of gender‐inclusive language compared with generic masculines in French and German, using four gender ...
Benjamin Storme +3 more
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The acquisition of English L2 prosody by Italian native speakers: experimental data and pedagogical implications [PDF]
, 2015 This paper investigates Yes-No question intonation patterns in English L2, Italian L1, and English L1. The aim is to test the hypothesis that L2 learners may show different acquisition strategies for different dimensions of intonation, and particularly ...
Busa', Maria Grazia, Stella, A.
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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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Dyslexic children's reading pattern as input for ASR: Data, analysis, and pronunciation model [PDF]
, 2009 To realize an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model that is able to recognize the Bahasa Melayu reading difficulties of dyslexic children, the language corpora has to be generated beforehand.
Husni, Husniza, Jamaludin, Zulikha
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Research shows that children use head gestures to mark discourse focus before developing the required prosodic cues in their first language (L1), and their gestures affect the prosodic parameters of their speech. We investigated whether head gestures also act as precursors and bootstrappers of prosodic focus marking in second language (L2 ...
Lieke van Maastricht +1 more
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