Search Results - "Applied psycholinguistics"

The Home Language Environment of Monolingual and Bilingual Children and Their Language Proficiency by Scheele, Anna F, Leseman, Paul P. M, Mayo, Aziza Y

“…This study investigated the relationships between home language learning activities and vocabulary in a sample of monolingual native Dutch (n = 58) and…”
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Nonword Repetition and Word Learning: The Nature of the Relationship by Gathercole, Susan E

“…This article presents a theoretical framework designed to accommodate core evidence that the abilities to repeat nonwords and to learn the phonological forms…”
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Size Matters: Early Vocabulary as a Predictor of Language and Literacy Competence by Lee, Joanne

“…This paper investigated the predictive ability of expressive vocabulary size and lexical composition at age 2 on later language and literacy skills from ages 3…”
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Grammatical Processing in Language Learners by Clahsen, Harald, Felser, Claudia

“…The ability to process the linguistic input in real time is crucial for successfully acquiring a language, and yet little is known about how language learners…”
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Linguistic Skills and Speaking Fluency in a Second Language by De Jong, Nivja H, Steinel, Margarita P, Florijn, Arjen, Schoonen, Rob, Hulstijn, Jan H

“…This study investigated how individual differences in linguistic knowledge and processing skills relate to individual differences in speaking fluency. Speakers…”
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Parental Language Input Patterns and Children's Bilingual Use by De Houwer, Annick

“…This article reports on a study that addresses the following question: why do some children exposed to two languages from early on fail to speak those two…”
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Cross-Linguistic Evidence for the Nature of Age Effects in Second Language Acquisition by Dekeyser, Robert, Alfi-Shabtay, Iris, Ravid, Dorit

“…Few researchers would doubt that ultimate attainment in second language grammar is negatively correlated with age of acquisition, but considerable controversy…”
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Producing Bilinguals through Immersion Education: Development of Metalinguistic Awareness by Bialystok, Ellen, Peets, Kathleen F, Moreno, Sylvain

“…This study examined metalinguistic awareness in children who were becoming bilingual in an immersion education program. The purpose was to determine at what…”
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Perceived Foreign Accent in First Language Attrition and Second Language Acquisition: The Impact of Age of Acquisition and Bilingualism by Hopp, Holger, Schmid, Monika S

“…This study investigates constraints on ultimate attainment in second language (L2) pronunciation in a direct comparison of perceived foreign accent of 40 late…”
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Implicit and Explicit Knowledge in Second Language Acquisition by Rebuschat, Patrick, Williams, John N

“…Language development is frequently characterized as a process where learning proceeds implicitly, that is, incidentally and in absence of awareness of what was…”
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Profile Effects in Early Bilingual Language and Literacy by Oller, D. Kimbrough, Pearson, Barbara Z, Cobo-Lewis, Alan B

“…Bilingual children's language and literacy is stronger in some domains than others. Reanalysis of data from a broad-scale study of monolingual English and…”
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Morphological Awareness in Chinese: Unique Associations of Homophone Awareness and Lexical Compounding to Word Reading and Vocabulary Knowledge in Chinese Children by Liu, Phil D, McBride-Chang, Catherine, Wong, Terry T.-Y, Shu, Hua, Wong, Anita M.-Y

“…An in-depth exploration of the associations of two aspects of morphological awareness in Chinese--homophone awareness and lexical compounding awareness--to…”
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Learning Pitch Patterns in Lexical Identification by Native English-Speaking Adults by Wong, Patrick C. M, Perrachione, Tyler K

“…The current study investigates the learning of nonnative suprasegmental patterns for word identification. Native English-speaking adults learned to use…”
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The Interface between Bilingual Development and Specific Language Impairment by Paradis, Johanne

“…Research at the interface of bilingual development and child language disorders has increased greatly in the past decade. The purpose of this article is to…”
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Longitudinal Predictors of Chinese Word Reading and Spelling among Elementary Grade Students by Yeung, Pui-Sze, Ho, Connie Suk-Han, Wong, Yau-Kai, Chung, Kevin Kien-Hoa, Lo, Lap-Yan

“…The longitudinal predictive power of four important reading-related skills (phonological skills, rapid naming, orthographic skills, and morphological…”
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Roles of Morphological Awareness in the Reading Comprehension of Spanish-Speaking Language Minority Learners: Exploring Partial Mediation by Vocabulary and Reading Fluency by Kieffer, Michael J, Biancarosa, Gina, Mancilla-Martinez, Jeannette

“…This study investigated the direct and indirect roles of morphological awareness reading comprehension for Spanish-speaking language minority learners reading…”
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What's in a Word? Morphological Awareness and Vocabulary Knowledge in Three Languages by McBride-Chang, Catherine, Tardif, Twila, Cho, Jeung-Ryeul, Shu, Hua, Fletcher, Paul, Stokes, Stephanie F, Wong, Anita, Leung, Kawai

“…Understanding how words are created is potentially a key component to being able to learn and understand new vocabulary words. However, research on…”
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Comprehension of Reflexive and Personal Pronouns in Children with Autism: A Syntactic or Pragmatic Deficit? by Perovic, Alexandra, Modyanova, Nadya, Wexler, Ken

“…Although pragmatic deficits are well documented in autism, little is known about the extent to which grammatical knowledge in this disorder is deficient, or…”
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The Use of Film Subtitles to Estimate Word Frequencies by New, Boris, Brysbaert, Marc, Veronis, Jean, Pallier, Christophe

“…We examine the use of film subtitles as an approximation of word frequencies in human interactions. Because subtitle files are widely available on the…”
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Cognitive Correlates of Vocabulary Growth in English Language Learners by Farnia, Fataneh, Geva, Esther

“…This study modeled vocabulary trajectories in 91 English language learners (ELLs) with Punjabi, Tamil, or Portuguese home languages, and 50 English…”
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