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Chen, Li-Mei; Hustad, Katherine C.; Kent, Ray D.; Lin, Yu Ching – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: This study explored the speech characteristics of Mandarin-speaking children with cerebral palsy (CP) and typically developing (TD) children to determine (a) how children in the 2 groups may differ in their speech patterns and (b) the variables correlated with speech intelligibility for words and sentences. Method: Data from 6 children…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Cerebral Palsy, Mandarin Chinese, Children
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Saito, Kazuya – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2015
The current project examined whether and to what degree age of acquisition (AOA), defined as the first intensive exposure to a second language (L2) environment, can be predictive of the end state of postpubertal L2 oral proficiency attainment. Data were collected from 88 experienced Japanese learners of English and two groups of 20 baseline…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Language Proficiency, Age