Search results for "Spoke"

Comparing speaking situations in three different language tests

2013

The purpose of this study was to compare learner outcome when five similar speaking situations were offered in the speaking subtest in Finnish, Swedish and English intermediate level tests in the Finnish National Certificates language testing system. The overall aim was to investigate the tasks by comparing learner outcomes across the three tests and to seek explanations for the outcome in the learners’ selfreported demographic, language, educational and professional background.The speaking situations were selected from the NC item bank meaning that they have undergone the Item Response Theory based analyses which indicate that the tasks function well in all tests. More information was need…

What we learn about language from Spoken Corpus Linguistics?

2020

Al llarg de les darreres dècades, la Lingüística de Corpus Orals (LCO) ha avançat força en termes de quantitat i qualitat d’estudis (O’Keeffe & McCarthy 2010). En els darrers trenta anys s’ha assolit un gran progrés com mostra l’increment de corpus multimodals existents i les diverses investigacions sofisticades que aquests corpus han estimulat sobre la relació entre el component verbal i no-verbal de la comunicació oral (Knight 2011). La LCO és un camp de recerca molt vital que pot proporcionar dades i eines essencials per a avançar en el coneixement lingüístic. En aquest article m’ocupe de la contribució que la LCO i els resultats que ha produït proporcionen a la lingüística general. …

The oral corpora in Catalan and research into casual Catalan: the corpora of conversation and functional varieties of the Corpus de Català Contempora…

2020

Aquest treball pretén exposar el conjunt de corpus i de recerques que s’han elaborat al llarg de diferents projectes promoguts amb l’objectiu de constituir corpus representatius del català corrent (sobretot oral i col·loquial). Els projectes a què es fa referència (VARCOM i PRAGMAESTIL) s’han dut a terme des de final del segle XX i des de la Universitat de Barcelona, més en concret amb la feina desenvolupada per diferents subgrups del Grup d’Estudi de la Variació (GEV-UB), en particular pel Grup d’Estudis de Pragmàtica i Anàlisi del Discurs (GrEPAD). El treball revisa en especial un corpus oral de conversa col·loquial (COC, 2002), un corpus oral de registres (COR, 2004) i un corpus oral aud…

”Man vill gärna berätta”

2013

The Unnatural Naturalness of Man-Narration and Daniel Sjolin’s Autobiographical Oron Bror Daniel Sjolin’s autobiographical debut novel Oron bror (2002) is about two brothers who are searching for their childhood home. During the journey, the little brother, the I-narrator, recalls detailed episodes from his past. In these retrospective chapters, narrated in present tense, the protagonist is referred to by the indefinite pronoun man. The article focuses on this peculiar narrative feature of Sjolin’s novel. Firstly, the article examines the functions of man in autobiographical context. The analysis of Sjolin’s novel shows that, on the one hand, man functions quite similarly to the more conven…

Concrete/Visual Poetry

2011

Statistical language learning in neonates revealed by event-related brain potentials

2009

Abstract Background Statistical learning is a candidate for one of the basic prerequisites underlying the expeditious acquisition of spoken language. Infants from 8 months of age exhibit this form of learning to segment fluent speech into distinct words. To test the statistical learning skills at birth, we recorded event-related brain responses of sleeping neonates while they were listening to a stream of syllables containing statistical cues to word boundaries. Results We found evidence that sleeping neonates are able to automatically extract statistical properties of the speech input and thus detect the word boundaries in a continuous stream of syllables containing no morphological cues. …

The effects of spelling consistency on phonological awareness: a comparison of English and German.

2005

Within alphabetic languages, spelling-to-sound consistency can differ dramatically. For example, English and German are very similar in their phonological and orthographic structure but not in their consistency. In English the letter a is pronounced differently in the words bank, ball, and park, whereas in German the letter a always has the same pronunciation (e.g., Ball, Park, Bank). It is often argued that reading acquisition has a reciprocal effect on phonological awareness. As reading is acquired, therefore, spoken language representation may be affected differently for English and German children. Prior to literacy acquisition, however, phonological representation in English and German…

Invisalign treatment from the patient perspective: A Twitter content analyses

2021

Background: Understanding patient perspective is a key factor in improving treatment satisfaction. The aim of the present study is to qualitatively describe the content of Twitter posts related to the treatment with Invisalign in order to get a better understanding of patient experience. Material and Methods: Tweets were prospectively collected during a period of four weeks from public available posts on Twitter using Awario™ a bespoke social media monitoring tool. After applying the pertinent inclusion and exclusion criteria the selected posts were analysed by three investigators using thematic analysis. Specific themes and subthemes were developed. Results: A total of 1564 tweets were ana…

Brain sensitivity to print emerges when children learn letter–speech sound correspondences

2010

The acquisition of reading skills is a major landmark process in a human's cognitive development. On the neural level, a new functional network develops during this time, as children typically learn to associate the well-known sounds of their spoken language with unfamiliar characters in alphabetic languages and finally access the meaning of written words, allowing for later reading. A critical component of the mature reading network located in the left occipito-temporal cortex, termed the “visual word-form system” (VWFS), exhibits print-sensitive activation in readers. When and how the sensitivity of the VWFS to print comes about remains an open question. In this study, we demonstrate the…

Pooling and expanding registries of familial hypercholesterolaemia to assess gaps in care and improve disease management and outcomes: Rationale and …

2016

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