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Anomia prehabilitation in temporal lobe epilepsy surgery: A pilot study

open access: yesEpilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective An emerging approach in surgery is to propose prehabilitation programs to strengthen the patient's functional abilities before surgical interventions, thus helping them cope better with its consequences. In drug‐resistant language‐dominant temporal lobe epilepsy (LdTLE), surgical treatment carries a risk of increasing cognitive ...
Véronique Sabadell   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does derivational morphology contribute to reading and spelling in Portuguese? / A morfologia derivacional contribui para a leitura e escrita no português?

open access: yesPsicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2008
Studies carried out in English orthography show that the ability to reflect upon the word's morphemes is related to the success in recognizing words, reading comprehension and spelling.
Márcia Maria Peruzzi Elia da Mota   +1 more
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Vowel duration issue in Civili [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The main goal of this article is to define the problem of vowel duration in Civili (H12a). It shows that the so-called Civili vowel-length desperately needs to be re-examined, because previous works on the sound system of this language hardly explain a ...
Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, Hugues Steve
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Collaborative Accomplishment of L2 Peer Feedback Interaction: Pursuing Uptake Through Accounting and Depersonalizing

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although L2 learners are often encouraged to provide feedback on each other's performance of paired/group interaction tasks in collaboration and interaction, how they jointly engage in feedback talk in ways that are conducive to establishing shared understanding of the institutionally preferred actions is largely unknown.
Kübra Ekşi, Nilüfer Can Daşkın
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Motivation: Modeling the Predictive Role of L2 Pride in Informal Digital Learning of English

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the role of second language (L2) pride—an understudied affective factor—in shaping learners’ language learning motivation and involvement with informal digital learning of English (IDLE). Drawing on questionnaire data from 1388 Chinese university EFL students, the study employs structural equation modeling to examine ...
Minlin Minny Zou   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Descriptive and Experimental Investigation of Recursive Compounds in English: Their Semantic, Syntactic, and Phonological Characterization

open access: yesLanguages
The aim of this study is to experimentally capture the semantic, syntactic, and phonological properties of recursive compounds in English. We asked 22 native speakers of English to judge the semantic, syntactic, and phonological properties of 20 ...
Makiko Mukai
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing Pragmatic Comprehension Competence in Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language: From the Perspective of Speech Acts in Chinese

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study evaluates the pragmatic comprehension competence of Chinese speech acts among adult learners of Chinese as a second language (CSL) and Chinese as a foreign language (CFL). A computerized Pragmatic Listening Judgment Task was adopted to collect accuracy and reaction time data from 88 participants from Mainland China and South Korea ...
Jing Jin, Yang Yang, Jieun Lee
wiley   +1 more source

The Parallel Architecture in Language and Elsewhere

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract The Parallel Architecture is a conception of the organization of the mental representations involved in language and of the role of language in the mind as a whole. Its basic premise is that linguistic representations draw on three independent generative systems—phonological, syntactic, and semantic structures—plus a system of interface links ...
Ray Jackendoff
wiley   +1 more source

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