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N+V complex predicates in Guinean Kpelle:

Mandenkan
The paper focuses on noun-based complex predicates (NVCPs) in Guinean Kpelle (iso 639-3 [gkp], Southwestern Mande). We explore the degree of nominal boundedness and the bracketing within complex predicates by looking at the phonological, morphological ...
Maria Konoshenko, Maria Uvarova
doaj   +1 more source

Why pitch sensitivity matters : event-related potential evidence of metric and syntactic violation detection among spanish late learners of german [PDF]

, 2011
Event-related potential (ERP) data in monolingual German speakers have shown that sentential metric expectancy violations elicit a biphasic ERP pattern consisting of an anterior negativity and a posterior positivity (P600).
Kotz, Sonja A., Roncaglia-Denissen, Maria Paula, Schmidt-Kassow, Maren   +2 more
core  

Annual Research Review: Associations of socioeconomic status with cognitive function, language ability, and academic achievement in youth: a systematic review of mechanisms and protective factors

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 417-439, April 2025.
Low socioeconomic status (SES) is negatively associated with children's cognitive and academic performance, leading to long‐term educational and economic disparities. In particular, SES is a powerful predictor of executive function (EF), language ability, and academic achievement.
Divyangana Rakesh, Paris Anne Lee, Amruta Gaikwad, Katie A. McLaughlin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From holism to compositionality: memes and the evolution of segmentation, syntax, and signification in music and language [PDF]

, 2015
Steven Mithen argues that language evolved from an antecedent he terms “Hmmmmm, [meaning it was] Holistic, manipulative, multi-modal, musical and mimetic”.
Adkins, Allanbrook, Blackmore, Boas, Byros, Calvin, Chantler, Chomsky, Cooke, Cross, Crystal, Darwin, Dawkins, Dawkins, Dawkins, Deliège, Dennett, Dennett, Dissanayake, Distin, Durham, Durrell, Fodor, Gjerdingen, Goldberg, Hebb, Jan, Jan, Kirby, Kramer, Leman, Leng, Lerdahl, Lynch, Matyja, Meyer, Meyer, Miller, Mithen, Monelle, Mountcastle, Narmour, Nattiez, Patel, Pinker, Ratner, Rice, Schenker, Scruton, Shapiro, Snyder, Snyder, STEVEN JAN, Strunk, Temperley, Truss, Whorf   +56 more
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Decoding and vocabulary improvements mediate sustained gains in reading comprehension: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial of a multicomponent reading intervention

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, Catherine Clark, Gwennant Evans, Rachel Cartin, Joseph Smith, Charles Hulme, Manon Jones   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Developing Pedagogical Content Knowledge And Strengthening Phonological Representations Among Efl Teacher Trainees

, 2018
This article is concerned with the linguistic aspects of consolidated pedagogical teacher content knowledge that may set the stage for foreign language teacher trainees from L1 consonantal-based orthographies to more effectively teach reading in a vowel ...
Jackie Teplitz
semanticscholar   +1 more source

‘Gen Z Language? Y'all Mean AAVE’: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as ‘TikTok Language’

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
wiley   +1 more source

A Comparative Analysis of Declarative Sentences in the Spontaneous Speech of Two Puerto Rican Communities

Languages
This paper applies the Autosegmental Metrical (AM) model of intonation phonology and the Spanish Tones and Break Indices (Sp_ToBI) annotation conventions to compare the intonational contours of declarative sentences in two varieties of Puerto Rican ...
Piero Visconte, Sandro Sessarego, Rajiv Rao   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Softening the Border: A Capacities Approach to the Perception–Cognition Distinction

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Approaches to the perception–cognition distinction tend toward two extremes. Many embrace a hard border, treating perception and cognition as mutually exclusive, non‐overlapping categories. By contrast, eliminativism denies that any principled, theoretically useful distinction exists between perception and cognition.
Jacob Beck, Casey O'Callaghan
wiley   +1 more source

Dialect Classification and Everyday Culture: A Case Study from Austria

Languages
Considering dialect areas as cultural areas has a long tradition in dialectology. Especially in the first half of the 20th century, researchers explored correspondences between dialect variation and other elements of everyday culture such as traditional ...
Philip C. Vergeiner
doaj   +1 more source