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Spoken Language Development and the Challenge of Skill Integration
2019
The development of phonological awareness, the knowledge of the structural combinatoriality of a language, has been widely investigated in relation to reading (dis)ability across languages. However, the extent to which knowledge of phonemic units may interact with spoken language organization in (transparent) alphabetical languages has hardly been investigated. The present study examined whether phonemic awareness correlates with coarticulation degree, commonly used as a metric for estimating the size of children’s production units. A speech production task was designed to test for developmental differences in intra-syllabic coarticulation degree in 41 German children from 4 to 7 years of a…
Comprehension of Generalized Conversational Implicatures by Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder
2018
This study evaluates the comprehension of generalized conversational implicatures (GCI) in children with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD), using a GCI test constructed based on the Levinson model, which distinguishes between three types of implicatures: type Q (or scalar: “what is not referred to does not occur”); type I (“by default, it is not necessary to say what can be assumed”); and type M (“if someone is expressing something in a not very simple or marked way, it is because s/he is describing a situation that is not very typical, frequent, or prototypical”). In addition to the ASD group (n = 22), two comparison groups were utilized: a group matched on chronological age with …
Ausiàs March, en anglès i en prosa
2006
In this study we analyze the English translations of Ausiàs March already carried out (Terry, Conejero-Ribes-Keown, Wittlin and Archer), and we pay attention to the criteria and the solutions used. Here the emphasis is on those questions related to the lexicosemantic choice that determines the general strategy of the new translation into prose that the author of this study has carried out for IVITRA. The article is also concerned about the interaction between translation and the improvement of the knowledge of the original itself, as a consequence of translating it and having to understand it completely, even up to the point of proposing some amendments to the criticophylologic fixation.
Mnemotehnikas izmantošana vārdu krājuma efektīvākai apguvei svešvalodas stundās iesācējiem
2016
Diplomdarba tēma ir „Mnemotehnikas izmantošana vārdu krājuma efektīvākai apguvei svešvalodas stundās iesācējiem“. Diplomdarba tēma tika izvēlēta, lai izpētītu, kā skolēniem iespējams vieglāk apgūt jauno leksiku un ar kādu metožu palīdzību skolotājiem vieglāk šo mērķi sasniegt. Diplomdarba teorētiskajā daļā tiek analizēta pedagoģiskā, psiholoģiskā un metodiskā literatūra par mnemotehnikas izmantošanu ar mērķi izvēlēties svešvalodas leksikas apguvei piemērotākās metodes. Diplomdarba praktiskajā daļā tiek aprobētas mnemotehnikas izmantošanas iespējas mācību procesā. Skolēnu pozitīvā attieksme, viņu interese un labi sasniegumi, pierāda mnemotehnikas paņēmienu efektivitāti vārdu krājuma apguvei …
Spēlēs balstītas mācību platformas skolēnu angļu valodas vārdu krājuma bagātināšanai attālinātās mācībās 5. klasē
2020
Mūsdienās tehnoloģiju attīstības un distonciētās apmācības dēļ, strauji pieauga tiešsaišu komunikāciju un mācību platformu izmantošana cilvēku ikdienā. It īpaši, šī situācija skāra izglītības iestādes: skolas skolotājus, skolēnus un vecākus. Diplomdarba autors ir izpētījis vairākas spēļu balstītas mācību platformas, lai bagātinātu angļu valodas vārdu krājumu attālinātās mācībās 5. klasē. Autors ir analizējis literatūru par vārdu krājuma mācīšanos un platformu izmantošanu. Kā pētījuma metode tika izvēlēta gadījuma izpēte. Savukārt, kā datu iegūšanas metodes tika izmantotas angļu valodas skolotāju anketas, skolēnu (vecumā no 11 līdz 12 gadiem) pirms un pēc pētījuma anketas. Skolēniem bija ies…
Does "whole-word shape" play a role in visual word recognition?
2002
To analyze the impact of outline shape on visual word recognition, the visual pattern of the stimuli can be distorted by size alternation. Contrary to the predictions of models that rely on outline shape (Allen, Wallace, & Weber, 1995), the effect of size alternationwas greater for low-frequency words than for high-frequency words in a lexical decision task (Experiment 1). In Experiment 2, the effect of case type (lowercase vs. UPPERCASE) occurred for low-frequency words, but not for high-frequency words. The effect of neighborhood size was remarkably similar in the two experiments. The results can be readily explained in the framework of a resonance model (Grossberg & Stone, 1986), in whic…
Graphemic complexity and multiple print-to-sound associations in visual word recognition
2005
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands It has recently been reported that words containing a multiletter grapheme are processed slower than are words composed of single-letter graphemes (Rastle & Coltheart, 1998; Rey, Jacobs, Schmidt-Weigand, & Ziegler, 1998). In the present study, using a perceptual identification task, we found in Experiment 1 that this graphemic complexity effect can be observed while controlling for multiple print-to-sound associations, indexed by regularity or consistency. In Experiment 2, we obtained cumulative effects of graphemic complexity and regularity. These effects were replicated in Experiment 3 in a naming task. Overall, these r…
Time-Course of Grammatical Processing in Deaf Readers: An Eye-Movement Study.
2019
Abstract Twenty participants who were deaf and 20 chronological age-matched participants with typical hearing (TH) (mean age: 12 years) were asked to judge the correctness of written sentences with or without a grammatically incongruent word while their eye movements were registered. TH participants outperformed deaf participants in grammaticality judgment accuracy. For both groups, First Pass and Total Fixation Times of target words in correct trials were significantly longer in the incongruent condition than in the congruent one. However, whereas TH students showed longer First Pass in the target area than deaf students across congruity conditions, deaf students made more fixations than t…
An automatic system for helping health consumers to understand medical texts
2015
Medical texts (reports, articles, etc.) are usually written by professionals (physicians, medical researchers, etc.) who use their own language and communication style. On the other hand, these texts are often read by health consumers (as in the case of medical reports) who do not have the same skills and vocabularies of the experts and can have difficulties in text comprehension. To help a health consumer in understanding a medical text, it would be desirable to have an automatic system that, given a text written with medical (technical) terms, translates them in simple or plain language and provides additional information with the same kind of language. We have designed such a system. It …
Cómo mirar una parte del mundo: el vocabulario del cuerpo en una lengua amerindia
2006
This paper analyses the vocabulary of body parts in Cha’palaachi, an Amerindian language of the Republic of Ecuador. A number of basic roots refers to (a) forms or (b) parts of the body, although in some cases reference is made to general areas more than to specific parts. These areas, as well as the general vocabulary of forms, points to the importance of spatial elements in Cha’palaachi, which is also identifiable in other parts of the vocabulary and grammar. A significant point is that the body-part terms are organised on the basis of the reference to form, in such a way that the body-part element itself is only of secondary importance. Metaphorical and metonymic extension is more freque…