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Developmental stuttering with common and complex phenotypes
Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.Aim To describe the phenotypic spectrum associated with stuttering. Method Individuals with current or resolved developmental stuttering self‐referred. Surveys assessed stuttering characteristics (onset, negative impact, family history) and health (early development, other conditions). Speech and non‐verbal intelligence were assessed using conversation
Sarah E. Horton +6 more
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Phonology, phonetic and phonological aspects
Macrolinguistics and Microlinguistics, 2020 This paper aimed at explaining the definition of phonology and exploring phonetic aspects in English. A continuous sequence of language sounds, sometimes an up and down sound, sometimes a short pause or a long pause, sometimes a loud or soft sound, and sometimes a stretching sound and a normal sound.
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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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Study of some aspects of prosodic phonology in text analysis [PDF]
, 1998 The main purpose of this paper is to make a systematic investigation of some aspects of prosodic phonology among which are a primary and a secondary stress, a vowel's manner and quality, a voiced versus a voiceless phoneme, etc., to manifest the ...
AI-Shurafa,Nuha Suleiman
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Foreign languages are often learnt in formal and disembodied environments which may limit the emotional resonance of their vocabulary and their pragmatic usage in real‐life communication. In a context of English as a foreign language (EFL), this study examines whether elaborative processing as a teaching strategy leads to changes in the ...
María Jesús Sánchez +3 more
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German glide formation functionally viewed [PDF]
, 2009 Glide formation, a process whereby an underlying high front vowel is realized as a palatal glide, is shown to occur only in unstressed prevocalic position in German, and to be blocked by specific surface restrictions such as *ji and *“j.
Hamann, Silke
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Regressive transfer has been a subject that has not been extensively researched in the field of third language acquisition. This study aims to examine the extent to which a highly advanced knowledge of a third language (L3) affects the first language (L1) and the second language (L2) of early bilinguals in light of the Differential Stability ...
Maddi Alkain Arizmendi +2 more
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The price of a perfect system: learnability and the distribution of errors in the speech of children learning English as a first language [PDF]
, 2002 This study reports on a strictly-cognitive and symptomatic approach to the treatment of phonological disorders, by an effect which can also be reproduced in most normally- developing children. To explain how this works, it is necessary to address certain
Nunes, Aubrey
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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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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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