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The Contribution of Phonemic Awareness and Executive Functions to Reading Skills of Italian Pupils

Psychology in the Schools, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Phonemic awareness (PA) refers to the ability to reflect on and manipulate phonemes. The development of the ability to become aware of and conduct mental operations on phonemes might involve higher‐order cognitive processes, such as executive functions (EFs), which help modulate attention to goal‐relevant information and support behavioral ...
Anna Cardis, Elena Podda, Maria Chiara Fastame   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A study on intelligibility, comprehensibility and accentedness based on the application pattern of lateralization and nasalization rules in foreign-accented speech of Korean

Cogent Arts & Humanities
This study aims to investigate the impact of application patterns of Korean phonological rules in foreign-accented speech on native speakers’ comprehension.
Esraa Hasan, Yuri Ahn, Abdel Rahman Mitib Altakhaineh   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Gap in Reporting: Student Demographic Information in Academic Universal Screening Studies

Psychology in the Schools, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Universal screening is an essential practice in any multi‐tiered system of support, but without understanding the demographic makeup of students in studies that inform current practices, the effectiveness in which instruments and screening approaches work best for students of demographically diverse backgrounds cannot be assessed.
Adelle K. Sturgell, Emily R. Forcht, Ethan R. Van Norman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contextual labialization in Nawuri

Studies in African Linguistics, 1990
A spectrographic investigation into the non-contrastive labialization of consonants before round vowels in Nawuri (a Kwa language of Ghana) supports the notion that this labialization is the result of a phonological, featurespreading rule and not simply ...
Roderic F. Casali
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Rewrite rule grammars with multitape automata

Journal of Language Modelling, 2017
The majority of computational implementations of phonological and morphophonological alternations rely on composing together individual finite state transducers that represent sound changes.
Mans Hulden
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Amodal aspects of linguistic design. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
All spoken languages encode syllables and constrain their internal structure. But whether these restrictions concern the design of the language system, broadly, or speech, specifically, remains unknown.
Iris Berent, Amanda Dupuis, Diane Brentari   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Adaptation to the School Environment Moderates the Effect of Skill‐Specific Performance on Pupils' School Achievement in the First Grade of Elementary School

Psychology in the Schools, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The transition from kindergarten to the first grade of elementary school is a crucial developmental period that can significantly influence pupils' academic trajectories. This study aimed to examine whether adaptation to the school environment moderates the relationship between skill‐specific performance and academic achievement in two core ...
Jana Kvintova, Pavel Veselsky, Jan S. Novotny, Irena Plevova, Hongyang Liu, Lucie Vachova, Jitka Petrova, Justyna Dockalova, Michaela Pugnerova   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Collaborative Storytelling With Spanish Primary School Students

Psychology in the Schools, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the benefits of collaborative storytelling practices on verbal fluency, narrative competence, collaboration, and inclusion in primary school. One hundred and seventy Spanish primary school students participated in storytelling activities using a quasi‐experimental, mixed‐method, and cross‐sectional design. Individual verbal
C. Alonso‐Campuzano, F. Filosofi, A. Tardivo, A. Pasqualotto, N. Sosa‐Gonzalez, P. Venuti, G. Iandolo   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

An infrastructure for Turkish prosody generation in text-to-speech synthesis [PDF]

, 2006
Text-to-speech engines benefit from natural language processing while generating the appropriate prosody. In this study, we investigate the natural language processing infrastructure for Turkish prosody generation in three steps as pronunciation ...
Kulekci, M. Oguzhan, Külekçi, M. Oğuzhan, Oflazer, Kemal   +2 more
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Set the controls for the heart of the alternation: Dahl’s Law in Kitharaka [PDF]

, 2013
This paper looks at Dahl’s Law, a voicing dissimilation process found in a number of Bantu languages, in Kitharaka, and argues that it is best analysed within a framework of minimal (contrastive) feature spe- cifications.
Uffmann, Christian
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