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Does language dominance affect cognitive performance in Bilinguals? Lifespan evidence from preschoolers through older adults on Card Sorting, Simon, and Metalinguistic Tasks [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 This study explores the extent to which a bilingual advantage can be observed for three tasks in an established population of fully fluent bilinguals from childhood through adulthood. Welsh-English simultaneous and early sequential bilinguals, as well as
Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole +8 more
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Le parler des jeunes : nouvelle norme pour le siècle prochain ?
La Bretagne Linguistique, 1996 The 1991 census indicated that after years of gradual decline, the number of Welsh speakers is stabilising at 18 % of the total population. But this figure is misleading because the Welsh spoken by the younger generation differs in important ways from ...
Mari Jones
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Présentation des hebdomadaires de langue galloise
La Bretagne Linguistique, 1993 This article provides a brief overview of the Welsh language from the advent of modernity to the present day. The development of the Welsh language press and its three leading weekly newspapers, Y Faner, Y Cymro and Golwg, are discussed.
Humphrey Lloyd Humphreys
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Twitter and the Welsh language [PDF]
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013 The emergence of new domains, such as the Internet, can prove challenging for minority languages. Welsh is a minority, regional language and is considered ‘vulnerable’ by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The Welsh-speaking community appears to have responded positively to the Internet and the new media it ...
Rhys James Jones +2 more
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Fortis-lenis vs voiced-voiceless plosives in Welsh
LingBaW, 2020 This paper questions the voiceless-voiced distinction of Welsh consonants and claims that the fortis-lenis distinction is more appropriate for the description of the language.
Sabine Asmus +2 more
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In the Blood or in the Water? Exploring predictors of Welsh language ability among young people
International Journal of Population Data ScienceObjectives Cymraeg 2050 outlines the Welsh Government’s strategy for the promotion and the facilitation of the use of the Welsh language and seeks to have a million Welsh speakers by 2050.
Rhys Davies, Katy Huxley, John Poole
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Modern Languages Open, 2023 In spite of a burgeoning recognition of the Welsh language as part of a wider appreciation of Welsh culture at the beginning of the nineteenth century (see Constantine 2014: 124), Home Tour writing about Wales remained largely Anglocentric (Borm, quoted ...
Kathryn Walchester
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Pre-aspiration in Bethesda Welsh: a sociophonetic analysis [PDF]
, 2020 Previous research has shown that pre-aspiration can be either a phonemic or variable linguistic feature susceptible to linguistic and extra-linguistic influences.
Hejná, Míša, Morris, Jonathan
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Navigating the meso-level bottleneck: Language rights implementation in Welsh healthcare
Revista de Llengua i Dret - Journal of Language and LawLanguage is a key factor in the delivery of effective healthcare, especially in settings where service users speak a minoritised language. In Wales, the Welsh Government has acknowledged the importance of linguistic inclusion through initiatives such as
Cynog Prys, Rhian Hodges
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The construction of a 'new nationalism'. The Welsh Nationalist Party to 1946
Studies on National Movements, 2014 The invisibility of Wales compared to other sub-state nations such as Catalonia and Scotland invites case studies of this sociological phenomenon from multiple perspectives.
Syd Morgan
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