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The Enhanced Literate Mind Hypothesis

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract In the present paper, we describe the Enhanced Literate Mind (ELM) hypothesis. As individuals learn to read and write, they are, from then on, exposed to extensive written‐language input and become literate. We propose that acquisition and proficient processing of written language (“literacy”) leads to, both, increased language knowledge as ...
Falk Huettig, Jan Hulstijn
wiley   +1 more source

Auditory-motor adaptation and de-adaptation for speech depend more on time in the new environment than on the amount of practice. [PDF]

Commun Psychol
Kim KS, Kitchen NM, Mitsuya T, Max L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Style or accent?: Gendered perceptions of English among young Bahrainis

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract Although both are recognized as different speech types, an accent is generally understood as unintentional, whereas style is performative. This study argues that with increasing rates of contact in globalization between people, resources, and cultures, ‘accent’ can be reconceptualized as closely intersected with ‘style’ in Expanding Circle ...
Wafa Al‐Alawi
wiley   +1 more source

Speech sound discrimination in background noise across the lifespan: a comparative study in Mongolian gerbils and humans. [PDF]

Front Aging Neurosci
Jüchter C, Chi CJ, Beutelmann R, Klump GM.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Nigerian English research: Developments and directions

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This article describes the progress made by scholars over a period of more than five decades in the field of Nigerian English studies. It will thus serve as a useful tool for those researching in this field; and apparently there has been no such attempt to date to review the research landscape of Nigerian English in order to show its key ...
David Jowitt, Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
wiley   +1 more source

Voice register in Mon: experiments in production and perception. [PDF]

Phonetica
Maspong S, McCormick P, Kirby J.
europepmc   +1 more source

An Interim Report on the Experimental Analysis of the Japanese Vowel Sounds

, 1954
Kochi Doi, Kenzô NAGAI, Toshio Sato
openalex   +2 more sources

Vowel Quality in Unstressed Syllables [PDF]

, 1967
Maria Schubiger
openalex   +1 more source

Attitudes to Nigerian Englishes in higher education

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract Although there is a bourgeoning of studies on attitudes towards Nigerian Englishes, there is limited research on the effects of participants’ discipline (STEM and non‐STEM) and the type of secondary school (private and government) they attended in evaluating Nigerian Englishes.
Sopuruchi Christian Aboh
wiley   +1 more source

Adaptive regularized spectral reduction for stabilizing ill-conditioned bone-conducted speech signals. [PDF]

PeerJ Comput Sci
Afaq KM, Amjad A, Tai LC, Chang HT.
europepmc   +1 more source