Orthographic input and phonological representations in learners of Chinese as a foreign language. [PDF]
This paper provides evidence that the second language orthographic input affects the mental representations of L2 phonology in instructed beginner L2 learners. Previous research has shown that orthographic representations affect monolinguals' performance
Bassetti, Benedetta
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Child sex and family socioeconomic status (SES) have been repeatedly identified as a source of inter-individual variation in language development; yet their interactions have rarely been explored. While sex differences are the focus of a renewed interest
Stéphanie eBarbu +9 more
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The road to language learning is not entirely iconic: Iconicity, neighborhood density, and frequency facilitate sign language acquisition [PDF]
Iconic mappings between words and their meanings are far more prevalent than once estimated, and seem to support children’s acquisition of new words, spoken or signed.
Caselli, Naomi, Pyers, Jennie
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Speech and language difficulties in children with and without a family history of dyslexia [PDF]
Comorbidity between SLI and dyslexia is well documented. Researchers have variously argued that dyslexia is a separate disorder from SLI, or that children with dyslexia show a subset of the difficulties shown in SLI.
Bird J. +4 more
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Phonological Development in the Early Speech of an Indonesian-German Bilingual Child [PDF]
Current research in bilingual children’s language development with one language dominant has shown that one linguistic system can affect the other. This is called Crosslinguistic Influence (CLI).
Bosch +51 more
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Phonological recoding in error detection: a cross-sectional study in beginning readers of Dutch [PDF]
The present cross-sectional study investigated the development of phonological recoding in beginning readers of Dutch, using a proofreading task with pseudohomophones and control misspellings.
Duyck, Wouter +2 more
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Love is . . . an abstract word: the influence of phonological and semantic factors on verbal short-term memory in Williams syndrome [PDF]
It has been claimed that verbal short-term memory in Williams syndrome is characterised by an over-use of phonological coding alongside a reduced contribution of lexical semantics.
Ewing, S. +5 more
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Phonological Priming In Young Children Who Stutter: Holistic Versus Incremental Processing [PDF]
Purpose: To investigate the holistic versus incremental phonological encoding processes of young children who stutter (CWS; N = 26) and age- and gender-matched children who do not stutter (CWNS; N = 26) via a picture-naming auditory priming paradigm ...
Byrd, Courtney T. +2 more
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Manner Harmony in Farsi-Speaking Children with Typical and Protracted Phonological Development [PDF]
So far, there has been a lack of research on the manner harmony process in children who learn Persian, both in children with typical phonological development and those with functional phonological disorder.
Forugh Shushtaryzadeh
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Computer simulations of developmental change: The contributions of working memory capacity and long-term knowledge [PDF]
Increasing working memory (WM) capacity is often cited as a major influence on children’s development and yet WM capacity is difficult to examine independently of long-term knowledge.
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