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Discrimination of Rhythmic Pattern at 4 Months and Language Performance at 5 Years: A Longitudinal Analysis of Data from German-Learning Children
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Höhle, Barbara; Pauen, Sabina; Hesse, Volker; Weissenborn, Jürgen – Language Learning, 2014
In this article we report on early rhythmic discrimination performance of children who participated in a longitudinal study following children from birth to their 6th year of life. Thirty-four children including 8 children with a family risk for developmental language impairment were tested on the discrimination of trochaic and iambic disyllabic…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Memory, Language Skills, German
Speech Perception in Second Language Acquisition: A Suggested Model
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Tarone, Elaine – Language Learning, 1974
A model of speech perception and production is suggested here which attempts to account for different rates of acquisition of perceptual and productive skill in the second language without assuming the existence of two separate second language grammars. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition, Language Proficiency
Non-Native Speakers' Production of Modified Comprehensible Output and Second Language Learning.
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Shehdeh, Ali – Language Learning, 1999
Investigated how well nonnative speakers (NNSs) could modify their output toward comprehensibility when interacting with native speakers (NSs) and NNSs, noting how often modified comprehensible output (MCO) was other- or self-initiated. Picture-dictation and opinion-exchange task data indicated that most repairs were self-initiated. NNS-NNS…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Language Proficiency