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Hoole, Philip; Bombien, Lasse – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to use prosodic and syllable-structure variation to probe the underlying representation of laryngeal kinematics in languages traditionally considered to differ in voicing typology (German vs. Dutch and French). Method: Transillumination and videofiberendoscopic filming were used to investigate the devoicing…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Syllables
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Schwartz, Mila; Taha, Haitham; Assad, Hanan; Khamaisi, Ferdos; Eviatar, Zohar – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of dual language development and cross-linguistic influence on morphological awareness in young bilinguals' first language (L1) and second language (L2). We examined whether (a) the bilingual children (L1/L2 Arabic and L1/L2 Hebrew) precede their monolingual Hebrew- or…
Descriptors: Role, Bilingualism, Morphology (Languages), Semitic Languages
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Gogate, Lakshmi; Maganti, Madhavilatha – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: This experiment examined English- or Spanish-learning preverbal (8-9 months, n = 32) and postverbal (12-14 months, n = 40) infants' learning of word-action pairings prior to and after the transition to verb comprehension and its relation to naturally learned vocabulary. Method: Infants of both verbal levels were first habituated to 2…
Descriptors: Verbs, Infants, Language Acquisition, English
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Blom, Elma; Paradis, Johanne – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: This study investigated whether past tense use could differentiate children with language impairment (LI) from their typically developing (TD) peers when English is children's second language (L2) and whether L2 children's past tense profiles followed the predictions of Bybee's (2007) usage-based network model. Method: A group of L2…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Verbs, English Language Learners, English (Second Language)
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Paradis, Johanne; Schneider, Phyllis; Duncan, Tamara Sorenson – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: In this study, the authors sought to determine whether a combination of English-language measures and a parent questionnaire on first-language development could adequately discriminate between English-language learners (ELLs) with and without language impairment (LI) when children had diverse first-language backgrounds. Method:…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Oetting, Janna B.; McDonald, Janet L. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2002
This study compared three methods for identifying non-mainstream dialect use: listener judgment ratings, type-based counts of non-mainstream pattern use, token- based counts. Correct dialect classifications were made for 88 to 97 percent of participants, although regression algorithms had to be applied to the type- and token-based results. For…
Descriptors: Blacks, Child Development, Children, Dialects