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Language Development and Acquisition in Early Childhood [PDF]

, 2019
The paper discussed in detail the process of language development and the process of language acquisition in early childhood. It also gave a brief overview of the theoretical frame of reference of language development.
Al-Harbi, S. S. (Salwa)
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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
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Co-phonology vs. Indexed constraint theory: a case study of Perak dialect partial reduplication [PDF]

, 2012
This paper presents co-phonologies and indexed constraint theory developed within Optimality theory (Prince and Smolensky, 1993) to account for partial reduplication in Perak dialect of Malay.
Syed Jaafar, Sharifah Raihan
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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
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Phonological complexity, speech style, and individual differences influence ASR performance for Tarifit

Scientific Reports
This study examines individual differences through the lens of automatic speech recognition (ASR) transfer (applying ASR trained on one language to a new language) from Arabic to Tarifit, an under-resourced Amazigh language with typologically rare ...
Mohamed Afkir, Georgia Zellou
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Nigerian English and the Phonotactic Influence of the West Chadic Languages

Universal Journal of Educational Research
Phonotactics is a fundamental aspect of phonology that governs the permissible combinations of sounds in a given language. It consists of rules that dictate how phonemes; the smallest units of sound can be arranged to form syllables and words.
Blessing Saina’an Lagan, Mary Daniel Nimram   +1 more
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Transfer in a Connectionist Model of the Acquisition of Morphology

, 1995
The morphological systems of natural languages are replete with examples of the same devices used for multiple purposes: (1) the same type of morphological process (for example, suffixation for both noun case and verb tense) and (2) identical morphemes ...
Gasser, Michael
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Individual differences in adult second language learning: a cognitive perspective [PDF]

, 2011
What makes some people more successful language learners than others? Scholars and practitioners of adult second language learning traditionally have cast the issue of individual differences in terms of such constructs as aptitude, motivation, learning ...
Kempe, Vera
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Intervention for mixed receptive-expressive language impairment : a review [PDF]

, 2010
Children with receptive-expressive language impairment (RELI), also referred to as 'receptive language disorder' or 'mixed receptive-expressive disorder',2 form a subset of those with speech, language, and communication needs who commonly have problems ...
American Psychiatric Association, Archibald, Baker, Barry, Bartlett, Beitchman, Beitchman, Bishop, Bishop, Bishop, Bishop, Bishop, Bortolini, Boyle, Boyle, Boyle, Broomfield, Camarata, Catts, Catts, Clark, Clegg, Cohen, Conti-Ramsden, Crago, De Jong, Dixon, Easton, Ebbels, Ellis Weismer, Ellis Weismer, Gathercole, Gathercole, Gillam, Glogowska, Hill, Joffe, Johnson, Kail, Kam, Law, Law, Law, Law, Leonard, McArthur, McCartney, Medical Research Council, Montgomery, Montgomery, Montgomery, Nash, Nash, Nation, Norbury, Parsons, Plante, Ravid, Rice, Riches, Schaeffer, Scientific Learning Corporation, Semel, Singer, SLI Consortium, SLI Consortium, Snowling, Stark, Stothard, Takala, Tallal, Tallal, Tomblin, Van Der Lely, Van Der Lely, Viding, Wexler, Wong, World Health Organization   +78 more
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Head Gestures Do Not Serve as Precursors of Prosodic Focus Marking in the Second Language as They Do in the First Language

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Research shows that children use head gestures to mark discourse focus before developing the required prosodic cues in their first language (L1), and their gestures affect the prosodic parameters of their speech. We investigated whether head gestures also act as precursors and bootstrappers of prosodic focus marking in second language (L2 ...
Lieke van Maastricht, Núria Esteve‐Gibert   +1 more
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