Can children with speech difficulties process an unfamiliar accent? [PDF]
, 2001 This study explores the hypothesis that children identified as having phonological processing problems may have particular difficulty in processing a different accent. Children with speech difficulties (n = 18) were compared with matched controls on four
Nathan, L., Wells, B.
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Flocking together : collective animal minds in contemporary fiction [PDF]
, 2020 The remarkable coordination displayed by animal groups such as an ant colony or a flock of birds in flight is not just a behavioral feat; it reflects a full-fledged form of collective cognition.
Caracciolo, Marco
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Attention and empirical studies of grammar [PDF]
, 2006 How is the generation of a grammatical sentence implemented by the human brain? A starting place for such an inquiry lies in linguistic theory. Unfortunately, linguistic theories illuminate only abstract knowledge representations and do not indicate how ...
Myachykov, Andriy +2 more
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Metalinguistic awareness in L2 vocabulary acquisition : which factors influence learners’ motivations of form-meaning connections? [PDF]
, 2017 Research has shown that prompting learners to elaborate on the appropriateness of form-meaning links can be an efficient vocabulary learning exercise (Deconinck, Boers & Eyckmans, 2017).
Candry, Sarah +2 more
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Differential effects of internal and external factors on the development of vocabulary, tense morphology and morpho-syntax in successive bilingual children [PDF]
, 2011 The present study investigates the effects of child internal (age/time) and child external/environmental factors on the development of a wide range of language domains in successive bilingual (L2) Turkish-English children of homogeneously low SES.
Chondrogianni, Vicky, Marinis, Theo
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Polysemy and brevity versus frequency in language [PDF]
, 2019 The pioneering research of G. K. Zipf on the relationship between word frequency and other word features led to the formulation of various linguistic laws. The most popular is Zipf's law for word frequencies.
Baixeries, Jaume +4 more
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Time and Place in the Prehistory of the Aslian Languages [PDF]
, 2013 The Aslian language family, located in the Malay Peninsula and southern Thai Isthmus, consists of four distinct branches comprising some 18 languages. These languages predate the now dominant Malay and Thai.
Burenhult, Niclas +2 more
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The source ambiguity problem: Distinguishing the effects of grammar and processing on acceptability judgments [PDF]
, 2013 Judgments of linguistic unacceptability may theoretically arise from either grammatical deviance or significant processing difficulty. Acceptability data are thus naturally ambiguous in theories that explicitly distinguish formal and functional ...
Anderson J. R. +58 more
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On the limits of L1 influence on non-L1 listening: Evidence from Japanese perception of Korean [PDF]
, 2006 Language-specific procedures which are efficient for listening to the L1 may be applied to non-native spoken input, often to the detriment of successful listening. However, such misapplications of L1-based listening do not always happen.
Cutler, A., Kim, J., Otake, T.
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P-model Alternative to the T-model [PDF]
, 2004 Standard linguistic analysis of syntax uses the T-model. This model requires the ordering: D-structure $>$ S-structure $>$ LF, where D-structure is the deep structure, S-structure is the surface structure, and LF is logical form.
Roberts, Mark D.
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