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Syllable timed speech treatment for school-age children who stutter

, 2014
Stuttering is most tractable, and therefore responsive to treatment, during the preschool years. It becomes more difficult to treat as children get older (Bothe, 2004; Bothe, Davidow, Bramlett & Ingham, 2006; Ingham, 1984; Ingham & Cordes, 1999; Onslow & Packman, 1997, 1999; Prins & Ingham, 1983).
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Oral Frailty and Physical Frailty Associated With Sleep Quality in Community‐Dwelling Adults: A Cross‐Sectional Study

Journal of Oral Rehabilitation, EarlyView.
In community‐dwelling adults aged ≥ 65 years, swallowing difficulty and dry mouth were significantly associated with poor sleep quality. The combined presence of oral frailty and physical frailty further increased the risk of poor sleep quality. ABSTRACT Background Oral frailty and physical frailty are linked to adverse health outcomes in older adults,
Pei‐Chen Lin, Ai‐Hua Chang, Shin‐Ru Liao, Koichiro Matsuo, Yuji Kabasawa, Ju‐Hui Wu, Pei‐Chao Lin, Hsiao‐Ling Huang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reliability and Validity of Oral Frailty Index‐8: Findings Among Community‐Dwelling Adults in Singapore

Journal of Oral Rehabilitation, EarlyView.
OFI‐8 demonstrated moderate reliability, limited structural validity, moderate convergent validity and moderate discriminative validity in measuring oral frailty risk of community‐dwelling adults. ABSTRACT Background Oral Frailty Index‐8 (OFI‐8) is the earliest developed patient‐reported measure for screening individuals at risk of oral frailty ...
Keerthika Natarajan, Yu Fan Sim, Haoyang Chen, Haoxing Lai, Siddarth Venkateswaran, Matthew Zhixuan Chen, Mun Loke Wong, Xiaoli Gao   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cross-linguistic and cross-scriptal differences in auditory and visual attentional shifts : a comparison between native Mandarin and English speakers [PDF]

, 2012
Lallier (2010) proposed that our attentional shifting speed could be shaped by our native language. In our current study we tested this hypothesis by comparing the attentional shift of native English and native Mandarin speakers using the stream ...
Lee, Tsz-chung, 李子聰
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Accent Change in the Wake of the Industrial Revolution: Tracing Derhoticisation Across Historic North Lancashire

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article applies a social model of historical dialect evolution in 19th‐century Britain to the analysis of sociophonetic data. Our aim is to assess where new dialect formation is likely to occur, and where it is not. Using recordings from 27 speakers, we first analyse coda rhoticity in north Lancashire, UK. The speakers were born 1890–1917
Claire Nance, Malika Mahamdi
wiley   +1 more source

How Flexible Are Grammars Past Puberty? The Case of Relative Clauses in Turkish‐American Returnees

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract How flexible are grammars after puberty? To answer this, we test returnees: heritage speakers (HS) born in an immigration context who returned to their homeland in later years. If returnees are targetlike, then language is still malleable after puberty; in contrast, if maturational effects are in play, postpuberty returnees will show ...
Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Silvina Montrul
wiley   +1 more source

Socioeconomic Account of Reading Abilities in Learning Chinese as a First Language and English as a Second Language

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract The study examined the mediation model of socioeconomic status (SES) and executive function (EF) on reading abilities in Chinese (as first language, L1) and English (as second language, L2) in 260 native Cantonese‐speaking students (146 boys) from Hong Kong local primary schools with the mean age at 111.3 months (range = 98–132 months).
Dan Lin, Jinghan Liang, Xiuhong Tong, Susanna Siu‐Sze Yeung, Phil Duo Liu, Him Cheung   +5 more
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President rodrigo duterte’s UN speech: An analysis on L1’s phonological influences on L2

Ho Chi Minh City Open University Journal of Science - Social Sciences
This study examined the L1’s phonological influences on segmental and suprasegmental traits in the selected speech of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte using a descriptive qualitative research approach, using Bautista and Gonzales’s (2006) framework on the ...
Kevin Moniva, Angelica Garcia, Jennifer Diamante, Joemar Minoza, Mayeth Avenido   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Eye Movements, Item Modality, and Multimodal Second Language Vocabulary Learning: Processing and Outcomes

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examined second language vocabulary processing and learning in reading only (RO) versus reading while listening (RWL). 119 English learners read or read‐while‐listening to a story embedded with 25 pseudowords, 10 times each, and had their eye movements tracked.
Jonathan Malone, Bronson Hui, Nick Pandža, Tetiana Tytko   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Überlegungen zur Isochronie-Hypothese und rhythmustypologischen Klassifizierung von Sprachen (silben vs. akzentzählend) am Beispiel des Polnischen und Deutschen [PDF]

, 2010
Już w 1775 r. Joshua Steele sformułował tezę o występowaniu równych pod względem czasowym interwałów – nie tylko w muzyce, ale również w mowie ludzkiej. Tak zwana teoria izochronizmu stała się w późniejszym okresie wyjściowym kryterium dla typologicznego
Grzeszczakowska-Pawlikowska, Beata
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