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Makin, Laurie – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2006
Shared book reading in families is strongly linked with successful school literacy and thus with identity, belonging and participation in literate societies. From an "emergent" perspective, literacy is recognised as beginning from birth. However, despite exceptions such as research into the UK program, "Bookstart", most…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Intervention, Reading Aloud to Others, Paralinguistics
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Chen, Aoju; Gussenhoven, Carlos; Rietveld, Toni – Language and Speech, 2004
This study examines the perception of paralinguistic intonational meanings deriving from Ohala's Frequency Code (Experiment 1) and Gussenhoven's Effort Code (Experiment 2) in British English and Dutch. Native speakers of British English and Dutch listened to a number of stimuli in their native language and judged each stimulus on four semantic…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Listening, Paralinguistics, Semantics