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Digital childhoods and multilingual identities: Preschool children's interactions with a picture book app

Children &Society, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 328-345, March 2026.
Abstract This study investigates the application and implications of the use of a multilingual picture book app in Swedish preschools, focusing on children's engagement and educators' roles in supporting multilingual development. Employing semi‐structured interviews and video observations, this study reveals the app's potential in reinforcing ...
Malin Nilsen
wiley   +1 more source

A pilot study on the acoustic effects of a pseudo-palatal plate on speech: Implications for articulatory rehabilitation devices. [PDF]

PLoS One
Woo ST, Na S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Words and Meters: Neural Evidence for a Connection Between Individual Differences in Statistical Learning and Rhythmic Ability in Infancy

Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Music and language are both hierarchically structured: syllables combine into words, and meters are groupings of musical beats. Statistical learning (SL) supports speech segmentation through computation of transitional probabilities between syllables, and individual differences in SL ability were found predictive of further language ...
Iris van der Wulp, Marijn Struiksma (Marijn), Frank Wijnen (Frank)   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vowel space change as a predictor of speech intelligibility gain in Down syndrome. [PDF]

Clin Linguist Phon
Deng D, Camarata S, Mazzone J, Lense M, Watson D.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Effects of Maturation and Dyslexia Risk on Neural Speech‐Sound Encoding and Discrimination at Preschool Stage

European Journal of Neuroscience, Volume 63, Issue 5, March 2026.
Event‐related potentials (ERPs) to a repeating pseudoword and mismatch responses (MMRs) to five deviances were recorded at 4–5 years and compared with a previously reported follow‐up at 28 months, in subgroups with versus without familial dyslexia risk (n ~ 150).
Sergio Navarrete‐Arroyo, Peixin Nie, Paula Virtala, Teija Kujala   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Embodied Speech: Sensorimotor Contributions to Native and Non-Native Phoneme Processing and Learning. [PDF]

Neurobiol Lang (Camb)
Tseng T, Krzonowski J, Brozzoli C, Roy AC, Boulenger V.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Vowel- and Diphthong-Like Spectral Patterns in Sperm Whale Codas. [PDF]

Open Mind (Camb)
Beguš G, Sprouse RL, Leban A, Silva M, Gero S.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Child‐Directed Speech in Rural and Urban Households in a Low‐SES Afrikaans‐Speaking Community in South Africa

Infancy, Volume 31, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT Most studies on child language acquisition occur in the minority world (countries which make up the minority of the world's population). Their findings are not generalizable to majority‐world contexts, where the majority of the world's population lives.
Carmen Defty, Frenette Southwood
wiley   +1 more source

Do 'leaders' in change sound different from 'laggers'? The perceptual similarity of New Zealand English voices. [PDF]

PLoS One
Sheard E, Hay J, Wilson Black J, Clark L.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Infant Vocal Behavior During Contingent Vocal Imitation and Its Interruption as a Window Into the Emerging Sense of Agency

Infancy, Volume 31, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT Infants' emerging sense of agency is thought to be supported by caregivers' contingent responsiveness. However, it remains unclear which types of responses are most relevant to this process. Here, we examined the role of contingent vocal imitation, defined as the prompt repetition of an infant's vocalization by an interaction partner. To tease
Laura Diprossimo, Marlene Meyer, Caroline Lüdemann, Sabine Hunnius, Joscha Kärtner   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source