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Nia Nickerson; Xin Sun; Valeria Caruso; Kehui Zhang; Chi-Lin Yu; Rachel Eggleston; Natasha Chaku; Xiaosu Hu; Teresa Satterfield; Ioulia Kovelman – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2024
Phonological awareness is the stepping-stone to learning to read as it helps children map language sounds onto letters. Theories of bilingualism posit that phonological awareness is a language-common literacy skill. However, bilingual learners are also thought to build language-specific representations. To illuminate common and specific…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Brain, Cognitive Processes, Phonological Awareness
Jinyoung Jo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Individual speakers' speech patterns differ from one another, despite presumably similar language input. What are the sources of this individual variability? In this dissertation, I explore sources of individual differences in pronunciation of coronal obstruents (/s/, /t[superscript h]/, /c[superscript h]/, /c/) at the ends of nouns in Korean.…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Phonology, Articulation (Speech), Korean
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Madeleine Long; Hannah Rohde; Michelle Oraa Ali; Paula Rubio-Fernandez – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
This study aims to advance our understanding of the nature and source(s) of individual differences in pragmatic language behavior over the adult lifespan. Across four story continuation experiments, we probed adults' (N = 496 participants, ages 18-82) choice of referential forms (i.e., names vs. pronouns to refer to the main character). Our…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Individual Differences, Pragmatics, Aging (Individuals)
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Filik, Ruth; Ingram, Joanne; Moxey, Linda; Leuthold, Hartmut – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
According to the Presupposition-Denial Account, complement set reference arises when focus is on the "shortfall" between the amount conveyed by a natural language quantifier and a larger, expected amount. Negative quantifiers imply a shortfall, through the denial of a presupposition, whereas positive quantifiers do not. An exception may…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Linguistic Theory, Natural Language Processing, Form Classes (Languages)
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de Larios, Julio Roca; Coyle, Yvette; García, Vanessa – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
The present study analyzed how a group of young Spanish-speaking English as a foreign language (EFL) learners in a content and language integrated learning (CLIL) science class responded to an instructional unit integrating attention to functional language and an inquiry-oriented approach to science. Working in cooperation with the researchers, a…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Spanish Speaking
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Chen, Beyin; Hwang, Gwo-Haur; Wang, Shen-Hua – Educational Technology & Society, 2021
The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in education is now widespread, and the use of robots in education has demonstrated a positive influence on students' behavior and development. However, the use of emerging technologies usually results in cognitive load, especially for elementary school students whose learning capacity has not yet…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Game Based Learning, Robotics