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Laurence B. Leonard; Mariel L. Schroeder – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2024
The main goal of this tutorial is to promote the study of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) across different languages of the world. The cumulative effect of these efforts is likely to be a set of more compelling and comprehensive theories of language learning difficulties and, possibly, of language acquisition in general.…
Descriptors: English, Language Acquisition, Developmental Delays, Morphology (Languages)
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Teksan, Keziban; Yilmaz-Alkan, Zeynep – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2020
This study aimed to determine the effects of nursery rhymes, entertaining and prominent products of Turkish folk literature, on improving reading fluency of fourth-grade primary school students. The sample consisted of 44 fourth graders, attending a public primary school in Vakfikebir County of Trabzon province (Turkey) in the 2015-2016 academic…
Descriptors: Nursery Rhymes, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods, Grade 4
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Jiao, Yishan; LaCross, Amy; Berisha, Visar; Liss, Julie – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: Subjective speech intelligibility assessment is often preferred over more objective approaches that rely on transcript scoring. This is, in part, because of the intensive manual labor associated with extracting objective metrics from transcribed speech. In this study, we propose an automated approach for scoring transcripts that provides…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Phonemes, Error Patterns, Scoring
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Ceylan, Mustafa; Baydic, Berrin – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
The purpose of this study was to compare the reading skills of the fourth graders who were poor readers in different text genres (story and informative text). Fifty-six fourth-grade students who were poor readers participated in this study. Reading rates, reading errors and reading prosody characteristics of the students were examined in the…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Literary Genres, Fiction, Nonfiction
Shport, Irina A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The focus of this dissertation is on how language experience shapes perception of a non-native prosodic contrast. In Tokyo Japanese, fundamental frequency (F0) peak and fall are acoustic cues to lexically contrastive pitch patterns, in which a word may be accented on a particular syllable or unaccented (e.g., "tsuru" "a crane", "tsuru" "a vine",…
Descriptors: Japanese, Suprasegmentals, Acoustics, Cues
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Shriberg, Lawrence D.; Ballard, Kirrie J.; Tomblin, J. Bruce; Duffy, Joseph R.; Odell, Katharine H.; Williams, Charles A. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
Purpose: The primary goal of this case study was to describe the speech, prosody, and voice characteristics of a mother and daughter with a breakpoint in a balanced 7;13 chromosomal translocation that disrupted the transcription gene, "FOXP2" (cf. J. B. Tomblin et al., 2005). As with affected members of the widely cited KE family, whose…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Mothers, Daughters, Speech Impairments