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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Phonological Development"”.
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Phonological Development: Mechanisms and Representations
… which they have learned during the course of development. Recently, researchers have suggested that the sensitivity to distributional information in one's linguistic environment persists throughout adulthood (e.g., Dell, Reed, Adams, & Meyer, 2000; Onishi, Chambers, & Fisher, 2002) and that …
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Phonological development in Swahili a descriptive, cross-sectional study of typically developing pre-schoolers in Tanzania
… This exploratory study aimed to describe the phonological development of 24 typically-developing first language Swahili speaking children between the ages of 3;0 and 5;11 years in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. A cross-sectional design was used with six groups of four children in six month age bands.
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Phonological development of first language isiXhosa-speaking children aged 3;0-6;0 years a descriptive cross-sectional study
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The phonological development of typically developing first language Zulu-speaking children aged 2;6 - 6;5 years : a descriptive cross-sectional study
… in the country. However, research on children's phonological development in Zulu is minimal. To date there are no published Zulu speech assessments and associated normative data that speech-language pathologists (SLPs) can use to identify children with speech sound disorders who speak this …
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SPEECH DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN WITH CLEFT LIP AND PALATE
… of a longitudinal study into the phonetic and phonological development of children with cleft palate and cleft lip and palate from pre-speech to the age of 4;6. The aim of the project was to investigate the extent to which the cleft palate condition affects the nature and chronology of phonetic …
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Functionalism, Lexical Contrast And Sound Change
… 3), and by identifying the factors that predict phonological development in children (Chapter 4). While in the first part of the dissertation I argue that lexical change over time can be modeled without reference to functional considerations (contrary to the models in Martin 2007, Graff 2012 and …
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Prevalence of Phonological Processes in Normal Two-Year Olds
… age, very little has been reported on the speech development of children younger than three years of age. The development of phonological process theory has improved the means for studying the emerging phonological skills of the younger child. An adequate description of the sequential suppression …
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The struggles, successes and disappointments of carrying out Action Research: A reflective analysis of a 25 week syllable intervention across two schools focusing on improving reading and spelling in young children aged between five and nine years old.
… the view it might benefit reading and spelling development. To measure this, pre- and post-test data was compared as well as carrying out interviews with participants. The findings suggested that whilst the intervention made a difference in improving syllable awareness, this did not translate to …
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The acquisition of Setswana phonology in children aged 2;0 – 6;5 years
This study aimed to describe the phonological development of Setswana-speaking children between the ages of 2;0 and 6;5 years. The study objectives were to: 1) describe the acquisition of four aspects of phonology in these children, namely vowels, consonants, lexical tone and phonological …
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Genetic Modulation of the Neonatal Neural Processing of Speech at High and Low Familial Risk for Developmental Dyslexia
… neural deficits and how these in turn generate phonological deficits. Here, we hypothesised that common genetic polymorphisms in major dyslexia susceptibility genes (which are involved in developmental processes in-utero), are associated with abnormalities in the cortical microcircuitry, as …
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Interaction, corrective feedback, and the development of lexical stress
… that they facilitate different types of L2 development (Li, 2010; Mackey & Goo, 2007; Sheen & Ellis, 2011). However, to date, their impact on learners’ phonological development has received relatively little attention. In order to fill this gap, the current study examined the effects of …
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SENSITIVITY TO VOWEL, CONSONANT AND TONE VARIATION IN EARLY CHILDHOOD: EVIDENCE FROM 6-YEAR-OLD MANDARIN MONOLINGUALS AND ENGLISH-MANDARIN BILINGUALS
… and consonants. In order to investigate the development of phonological sensitivities, 5.5 to 6.5 year old Mandarin learners were sampled. Results reveal asynchronous influences of vowel, consonant and tone variation on spoken word recognition during the kindergarten years, as well as effects …
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Accuracy Of Parental Report On Phonological Inventories Of Toddlers
… information. In this study, the Survey of Speech Development (SSD) (Perry-Carson & Steel, 2001; Steel, 2000) was used to determine the accuracy of parents in reporting the speech sound inventories of their toddlers. Parents of 30 children, who were between the ages of 27 to 33 months old, …
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Can adults learn absolute pitch? Evaluating the “Melody Triggers” method
… is subject to the same critical period as phonological development and is supported by the same neural mechanisms. However, evidence suggests that maturational constraints on phonology acquisition are considerably less rigid than those on syntax (Curtiss, 1977; Fattal et al., 2011; …
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Can Adults Learn Absolute Pitch? Evaluating the "Melody Triggers" Method
… is subject to the same critical period as phonological development and is supported by the same neural mechanisms. However, evidence suggests that maturational constraints on phonology acquisition are considerably less rigid than those on syntax (Curtiss, 1977; Fattal et al., 2011; …
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Measuring children’s sensitivity to phonological detail using eye tracking and pupillometry
Infants' lexical processing is modulated by featural manipulations made to words, suggesting that early lexical representations are sufficiently specified to establish a match with the corresponding label. However, the precise degree of detail in early words requires further investigation due to …
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Effect of temperature and daylength on the phenological development of oats (Avena sativa L.)
… and daylength, are mainly responsible for phonological development in cereals. They influence the time of panicle development on the shoot apex, panicle emergence, anthesis and grain-filling which contribute to crop yield and quality. The objective of the research presented in this thesis …