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Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.This systematic overview highlights communication impairment as a defining feature of Rett syndrome, with expressive language consistently affected more severely than receptive language and social ability. Across the literature, most studies rely on caregiver‐reported measures, with relatively few employing direct or objective measurements of speech ...
Lucas N. Raniolo +6 more
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Father–Child Play: What Types of Play Do Fathers Engage in With Their Daughters and Sons?
Family Relations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This study aimed to investigate the types of play that fathers in Turkey engage in with their children aged 4–6 years and to examine whether these plays differ according to the child's gender. Background Despite the importance of fathers in child development, limited evidence exists on father–child play and gender differences in play
Hayriye Kamrak +2 more
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Syntactic awareness as a mediator of reading–writing relations in young Chinese L2 learners
Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.Abstract This longitudinal study examined the mediating role of syntactic awareness in reading–writing relations among young learners of Chinese as a second language (L2). A total of 177 students from non‐Chinese‐speaking backgrounds in Hong Kong were assessed annually from Grades 4 to 6 on word‐level literacy (character reading, spelling), sentence ...
Yu Ka Wong, Dongbo Zhang
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Brain SciencesFocus structures, a complex aspect of information structure in language, have garnered significant attention in psycholinguistics. The question of whether Chinese preschoolers aged 4–6 years possess the ability to process focus structures in oral ...
Xueqing Tan, Jun Song
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Phonological awareness is a critical component of phonological processing that predicts children’s literacy outcomes. Phonological awareness skills enable children to think about the sound structure of words and facilitates decoding and the analysis of ...
Linye Jing +3 more
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Word Associations in a Minoritised Language: The Case of Cymraeg (Welsh)
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As with many research strands in linguistics, word association (WA) literature is dominated by English language data. This paper (i) explores the extent to which methodologies developed to date are applicable to other languages—specifically, Welsh (Cymraeg)—and (ii) investigates what WA analysis can reveal about lexical organisation and ...
Tess Fitzpatrick +2 more
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Modularity, Phase-Phase Faithfulness and prosodification of function words in English
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2013 This paper investigates the interface of syntax and phonology in a fully modular view of language, deriving the effects of (morpho)syntactic structure on prosodification without referring to that structure in the phonological computation, contra the use ...
Dragana Šurkalović
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Pre‐Task Explicit Instruction, Input Modality, and Working Memory in L2 Oral Self‐Repair
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the central role of tasks in language education and ensuing research documenting how task‐related variables might affect language performance and learning, it remains unclear whether pre‐task explicit instruction, input modality, and working memory (WM) influence how learners monitor and repair grammatical structures in real‐time ...
Reza Yadollahpour +2 more
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Take an Introductory Linguistics Course; It May Increase Your Language Learning Ability
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Can general linguistics knowledge be used to better learn a new language? This exploratory study is concerned with the potential advantageous transfer of general linguistics knowledge to the learning of a new, additional foreign language.
Kiyono Fujinaga‐Gordon +2 more
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Phonological templates and the lexicon
Lexis: Journal in English LexicologyIn past phonology literature, diacritics, brackets and other extra-phonological objects have been employed to identify morpheme boundaries and to differentiate words from affixes.
Semra Baturay-Meral
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