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Phonological Working Memory in 4-8 Year-Old Persian Children Who stutter

Journal of Rehabilitation Sciences and Research, 2014
Background: One language-related area that has recently received more attention from researchers working in the field of stuttering is phonological working memory.
Maryam Vahab, Karim Shojaei, Alireza Ahmadi, Mohammad Nasiri   +3 more
doaj  

Hemodynamic Responses to Word Forms in Japanese Infant-Directed Vocabulary in 5- and 9-Month-Old Infants: Early Sensitivity to Prosodic Structure and Emergence of Prosodic Representations. [PDF]

Dev Sci
ABSTRACT The prosodic characteristics of a native language greatly influence early language acquisition. Yet, Japanese mothers are known to use a specific prosodic structure in infant‐directed vocabulary (IDV)—specifically, three‐mora, two‐syllable words with a heavy‐light pattern—which, crucially, differs from the standard prosodic rhythm of adult ...
Akimoto Y, Takahasi M, Yamane N, Tsui RK, Hayashi A, Mazuka R.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

The Organization of Constraints on Phonological Speech Errors [PDF]

, 1987
The intrinsic and extrinsic constraints are taken into account in the analysis of 455 consonantal errors - part of a corpus containing about 1500 Italian lapses. Parameters governing both types of constraints, and the hierarchical organization of the extrinsic ones are discussed. Our results provide evidence for some phonological properties of Italian.
Magno Caldognetto E, Tonelli L, Vagges K, Cosi P   +3 more
openaire  

Vocabulary and Processing Speed Explain Reading and Writing Disparities Between Linguistic Groups in Higher Education

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Selective admissions at universities in the United Kingdom aim to ensure a baseline language competence, yet, despite persistent achievement disparities across linguistic backgrounds, systematic comparisons of linguistic skills underpinning academic success remain rare.
Justyna Mackiewicz, Danijela Trenkic
wiley   +1 more source

Spelling errors and phonological awareness skills in children with typical and atypical phonological development.

CoDAS, 2019
To verify and correlate the spelling errors present in the written productions to the performance in phonological awareness skills of children in different school years, with typical and atypical phonological development.The sample consisted of 50 children divided into two groups: with typical phonological development (TPD) and with atypical ...
Gabriele, Donicht, Marizete Ilha, Ceron, Márcia, Keske-Soares   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Contextual Learning of New Meanings for Familiar Words: Perturbation of Original Meanings Occurs Without Deliberate Study

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract The present study investigated learning new meanings of known words from reading, following Hulme et al.’s (2018) study. English speakers read four short stories containing 16 critical words (i.e., familiar word forms assigned invented secondary meanings).
Nurul Aini Mohd Jelani, Irina Elgort
wiley   +1 more source

Phonological Error in Korean Plosives by Indonesian Learners: A Generative Phonology Approach

Journal of Language and Literature Studies
This study examines the Korean plosives phonological errors uttered by self-taught Korean language learners from Indonesia who have Javanese as their L1. This study reveal systematic difficulties learners face in perceiving and producing target-language sounds that often influenced by their first language.
Adinda Ayu Azzahra, Agus Subiyanto
openaire   +1 more source

How Awareness of Orthographic Transparency Benefits the Lexical Encoding of Second Language Vowels

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract We investigated the influence of orthographic transparency, and learners’ awareness of it, on the second language (L2) phonolexical encoding of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) mid‐vowel contrasts. In BP, accent marks indicate vowel quality (mid‐closed vs.
Hunter Brakovec, Isabelle Darcy
wiley   +1 more source

Both dissociations need to be considered: A response to Majerus et al.

Journal of Neuropsychology, EarlyView.
Tobias Bormann
wiley   +1 more source

Differential Effects of Age, Linguistic Distance, Gender, and Education on English Proficiency: A Comparative Crosslinguistic Study of Immersion and Nonimmersion Learners

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Do immersion and nonimmersion learners’ English grammaticality judgment test (GJT) scores reflect the same underlying processes in language learning? Drawing on data from Chen and Hartshorne's (2021) study, we argue that they do not. Using generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs), we found that age of onset was the strongest predictor of GJT ...
Frans van der Slik, Roeland van Hout
wiley   +1 more source