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Iconicity in the lab: a review of behavioural, developmental, and neuroimaging research into sound-symbolism.

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
This review covers experimental approaches to sound-symbolism — from infants to adults, and from Sapir's foundational studies to 21st century product naming.
Gwilym eLockwood, Mark eDingemanse
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Review of the book Deaf around the World: The impact of language / ed. by Mathur & Napoli [PDF]

, 2012
(first paragraph) Since its advent half a century ago, the field of sign language linguistics has had close ties to education and the empowerment of deaf communities, a union that is fittingly celebrated by Deaf around the world: The impact of language ...
de Vos, Connie, Palfreyman, Nick
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The Role of Language Dominance in Congruency Effects on Multi‐Word Unit Processing: Evidence From Early Bilinguals

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how the learner‐related factors of language dominance, encompassing language history, proficiency, use, and attitude, modulate congruency effects in multi‐word unit (MWU) processing among early bilinguals. Seventy Cantonese–Putonghua bilinguals completed lexical decision tasks measuring reaction time and accuracy for ...
Mingjia Cai, Yuan Liang
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Unaddressed participants’ gaze in multi-person interaction: optimizing recipiency

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
One of the most intriguing aspects of human communication is its turn-taking system. It requires the ability to process on-going turns at talk while planning the next, and to launch this next turn without considerable overlap or delay.
Judith eHoller, Kobin H. Kendrick
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The Emotional Valence Paradox in Social media: A Computational Linguistic Analysis of How Sentiment, Emotion, and Content Domain Predict Social Comparisons on Rednote

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This computational linguistic study analyzes 8743 Rednote posts to examine how sentiment, emotion, and content domain collectively shape social comparison dynamics on social media. We identify four key findings: (1) an emotional gradient, where upward comparison content exhibits the highest sentiment scores and downward comparison the lowest; (
Michelle Mingyue Gu, Shuting Zhang, Yue Zhang, Hua Zhao, Jiapei Gu, Jincheng Ding, Xiaofei Lu, Chetwyn Che‐hin Chan   +7 more
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Exome-wide analysis implicates rare protein-altering variants in human handedness

Nature Communications
Handedness is a manifestation of brain hemispheric specialization. Left-handedness occurs at increased rates in neurodevelopmental disorders. Genome-wide association studies have identified common genetic effects on handedness or brain asymmetry, which ...
Dick Schijven, Sourena Soheili-Nezhad, Simon E. Fisher, Clyde Francks   +3 more
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Individual Differences in Sensitivity to Style During Literary Reading: Insights from Eye-Tracking

Collabra: Psychology, 2016
Style is an important aspect of literature, and stylistic deviations are sometimes labeled foregrounded, since their manner of expression deviates from the stylistic default. Russian Formalists have claimed that foregrounding increases processing demands
Emiel van den Hoven, Franziska Hartung, Michael Burke, Roel M. Willems   +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, Steve Morris, Theodore Mills   +2 more
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Robust rhythm reporting will advance ecological and evolutionary research

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Rhythmicity in the millisecond to second range is a fundamental building block of communication and coordinated movement. But how widespread are rhythmic capacities across species, and how did they evolve under different environmental pressures ...
Taylor A. Hersh, Andrea Ravignani, Lara S. Burchardt   +2 more
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The politics of the teaching of reading [PDF]

, 2017
Historically, political debates have broken out over how to teach reading in primary schools and infant classrooms. These debates and “reading wars” have often resulted from public concerns and media reportage of a fall in reading standards.
A Luke, B Comber, BV Street, C Goldenberg, C Harrison, D Wyse, D Wyse, EJ Monaghan, F Smith, G Reid, HAE Mesmer, I Snyder, J Chall, J Soler, J Stannard, JA Dole, Janet Soler, K Goodman, KE Stanovich, KS Goodman, M Cove, M Lewis, M Olssen, M Reynolds, MJ Adams, N Rassool, N Rose, P Lather, PD Pearson, R Openshaw, R Openshaw, RF Flesch, S Ellis, SA Moore, UKLA [United Kingdom Literacy Association]   +34 more
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