In English, subject-verb agreement is deemed to be ‘local’ if the controller (i.e., the subject) and the target (i.e., the main verb) are adjacent, but ‘non-local’ if these items are separated by one or more terminal nodes.
Nguyen, Huong Thi Thu +2 more
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Phonological units in spoken word production: insights from Cantonese. [PDF]
Evidence from previous psycholinguistic research suggests that phonological units such as phonemes have a privileged role during phonological planning in Dutch and English (aka the segment-retrieval hypothesis). However, the syllable-retrieval hypothesis
Andus Wing-Kuen Wong +3 more
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Lexical and phraseological differences between second language written and spoken opinion responses
This study examines differences in lexical and phraseological complexity features between second language (L2) written and spoken opinion responses via classification analysis.
Minkyung Kim +2 more
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Corrective Feedback and Iranian EFL Learners' Spoken Complexity and Accuracy [PDF]
One of the possible negative consequences of the corrective feedback (CF), as a way of focus on form, can be a trade-off between the learners' spoken complexity and accuracy, due to their attentional limitations.
Farahman Farrokhi +2 more
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Spoken word classification in children and adults [PDF]
Purpose: Preschool children often have difficulties in word classification, despite good speech perception and production. Some researchers suggest they represent words using phonetic features rather than phonemes.
Carroll, Julia M. +3 more
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Reading to Learn and EFL Students’ Construction of Spoken Biographical Recounts
Reading to Learn (R2L) is a genre-based pedagogical model that has been used worldwide for promoting student literacy in L1 and L2 contexts. Despite its increasing popularity, very few studies have reported how R2L can be used to support learners ...
Jose David Herazo Rivera +5 more
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Syllable retrieval precedes sub-syllabic encoding in Cantonese spoken word production. [PDF]
Two experiments were conducted to investigate the time course of syllabic and sub-syllabic processing in Cantonese spoken word production by using the picture-word interference task.
Andus Wing-Kuen Wong +3 more
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Analysis Of Spoken English In Students’ Writing: A Case Study Of A Ghanaian Senior High School (Shs) [PDF]
: Writing in English as a Second Language appears to be a challenge to most students in Ghanaian schools especially those in Senior High School (SHS). This study was carried out to investigate the spoken features in students’ essays.
Phidelia AWUTE, Andreas AWUTE & Sampson Kobla EZUH
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Production Is Only Half the Story — First Words in Two East African Languages
Theories of early learning of nouns in children’s vocabularies divide into those that emphasize input (language and non-linguistic aspects) and those that emphasize child conceptualisation.
Katherine J. Alcock
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Orthographic facilitation effects on spoken word production: Evidence from Chinese
The aim of this experiment was to investigate the time course of orthographic facilitation on picture naming in Chinese. We used a picture-word paradigm to investigate orthographic and phonological facilitation on monosyllabic spoken word production in ...
Weekes, Brendan Stuart +2 more
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