"They sure aren't from around here": Children's perception of accent distance in L1 and L2 varieties of English
J Child Lang. 2024 Apr 22:1-24. doi: 10.1017/S0305000924000138. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTChildren exhibit preferences for familiar accents early in life. However, they frequently have more difficulty distinguishing between first language (L1) accents than second language (L2) accents in categorization tasks. Few studies have addressed children's perception of accent strength, or the relation between accent strength and objective measures of pronunciation distance. To address these gaps, 6- and 12-year-olds and adults ranked talkers' perceived distance from the local accent (i.e., Midland American English). Rankings we...
Source: Journal of Child Language - April 22, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Malachi Henry Tessa Bent Rachael F Holt Source Type: research
To what extent do children's expressions of time actually refer to time? An investigation into the temporal and discursive usages of temporal adverbs in family interaction
We report two corpus-based studies that investigated temporal adverbs in Finnish child-parent interaction between the children's ages of 1;7 and 4;11. Study 1 shows that the two corpus children used temporal adverbs to construe both temporal and discursive meanings from their early adverb production and that the children's usage syntactically broadly reflected the input received. Study 2 shows that the discursive uses of adverbs appeared to be learned from contextually anchored caregiver constructions that convey discourse functions like urging and reassuring, and that the usage is related to the children's and caregivers'...
Source: Journal of Child Language - April 22, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Maija Surakka Minna Kirjavainen Source Type: research
Rhythm Is a Marker of Ethnicity in Modern Hebrew: Evidence from a Perception Study and Actors' Ethnicized Portrayals
This study joins a growing body of work illustrating that relatively mild rhythmic variation can contribute to social identification, and in the current case, also for ethnicity portrayal.PMID:38647157 | DOI:10.1177/00238309241243025 (Source: Language and Speech)
Source: Language and Speech - April 22, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Si Berrebi Sharon Peperkamp Source Type: research
Anxiety, depression and quality of life in patients with head and neck cancer undergoing laryngectomy: A long-term prospective evaluation
CONCLUSION: Anxiety, depression and QoL in laryngectomised patients improved at 1 year after surgery and were maintained for up to 5 years.WHAT THIS PAPER ADDS: What is already known on the subject Laryngectomy is associated with prolonged functional and psychological effects and has a major impact on patient quality of life (QoL). Several prospective studies evaluating the QoL in laryngectomised patients have been reported, in which significant deterioration in social functioning was found even 1 year after surgery. What this paper adds to existing knowledge One year is not a sufficient period for laryngectomised patients...
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - April 22, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Nobuaki Mukoyama Naoki Nishio Hiroyuki Kimura Tatsuya Tokura Shinichi Kishi Kazuyoshi Ogasawara Hidenori Tsuzuki Sayaka Yokoi Akihisa Wada Mayu Shigeyama Norio Ozaki Yasushi Fujimoto Michihiko Sone Source Type: research
"They sure aren't from around here": Children's perception of accent distance in L1 and L2 varieties of English
J Child Lang. 2024 Apr 22:1-24. doi: 10.1017/S0305000924000138. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTChildren exhibit preferences for familiar accents early in life. However, they frequently have more difficulty distinguishing between first language (L1) accents than second language (L2) accents in categorization tasks. Few studies have addressed children's perception of accent strength, or the relation between accent strength and objective measures of pronunciation distance. To address these gaps, 6- and 12-year-olds and adults ranked talkers' perceived distance from the local accent (i.e., Midland American English). Rankings we...
Source: Journal of Child Language - April 22, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Malachi Henry Tessa Bent Rachael F Holt Source Type: research
To what extent do children's expressions of time actually refer to time? An investigation into the temporal and discursive usages of temporal adverbs in family interaction
We report two corpus-based studies that investigated temporal adverbs in Finnish child-parent interaction between the children's ages of 1;7 and 4;11. Study 1 shows that the two corpus children used temporal adverbs to construe both temporal and discursive meanings from their early adverb production and that the children's usage syntactically broadly reflected the input received. Study 2 shows that the discursive uses of adverbs appeared to be learned from contextually anchored caregiver constructions that convey discourse functions like urging and reassuring, and that the usage is related to the children's and caregivers'...
Source: Journal of Child Language - April 22, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Maija Surakka Minna Kirjavainen Source Type: research
Rhythm Is a Marker of Ethnicity in Modern Hebrew: Evidence from a Perception Study and Actors' Ethnicized Portrayals
This study joins a growing body of work illustrating that relatively mild rhythmic variation can contribute to social identification, and in the current case, also for ethnicity portrayal.PMID:38647157 | DOI:10.1177/00238309241243025 (Source: Language and Speech)
Source: Language and Speech - April 22, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Si Berrebi Sharon Peperkamp Source Type: research
Anxiety, depression and quality of life in patients with head and neck cancer undergoing laryngectomy: A long-term prospective evaluation
CONCLUSION: Anxiety, depression and QoL in laryngectomised patients improved at 1 year after surgery and were maintained for up to 5 years.WHAT THIS PAPER ADDS: What is already known on the subject Laryngectomy is associated with prolonged functional and psychological effects and has a major impact on patient quality of life (QoL). Several prospective studies evaluating the QoL in laryngectomised patients have been reported, in which significant deterioration in social functioning was found even 1 year after surgery. What this paper adds to existing knowledge One year is not a sufficient period for laryngectomised patients...
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - April 22, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Nobuaki Mukoyama Naoki Nishio Hiroyuki Kimura Tatsuya Tokura Shinichi Kishi Kazuyoshi Ogasawara Hidenori Tsuzuki Sayaka Yokoi Akihisa Wada Mayu Shigeyama Norio Ozaki Yasushi Fujimoto Michihiko Sone Source Type: research
"They sure aren't from around here": Children's perception of accent distance in L1 and L2 varieties of English
J Child Lang. 2024 Apr 22:1-24. doi: 10.1017/S0305000924000138. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTChildren exhibit preferences for familiar accents early in life. However, they frequently have more difficulty distinguishing between first language (L1) accents than second language (L2) accents in categorization tasks. Few studies have addressed children's perception of accent strength, or the relation between accent strength and objective measures of pronunciation distance. To address these gaps, 6- and 12-year-olds and adults ranked talkers' perceived distance from the local accent (i.e., Midland American English). Rankings we...
Source: Journal of Child Language - April 22, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Malachi Henry Tessa Bent Rachael F Holt Source Type: research
To what extent do children's expressions of time actually refer to time? An investigation into the temporal and discursive usages of temporal adverbs in family interaction
We report two corpus-based studies that investigated temporal adverbs in Finnish child-parent interaction between the children's ages of 1;7 and 4;11. Study 1 shows that the two corpus children used temporal adverbs to construe both temporal and discursive meanings from their early adverb production and that the children's usage syntactically broadly reflected the input received. Study 2 shows that the discursive uses of adverbs appeared to be learned from contextually anchored caregiver constructions that convey discourse functions like urging and reassuring, and that the usage is related to the children's and caregivers'...
Source: Journal of Child Language - April 22, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Maija Surakka Minna Kirjavainen Source Type: research
Rhythm Is a Marker of Ethnicity in Modern Hebrew: Evidence from a Perception Study and Actors' Ethnicized Portrayals
This study joins a growing body of work illustrating that relatively mild rhythmic variation can contribute to social identification, and in the current case, also for ethnicity portrayal.PMID:38647157 | DOI:10.1177/00238309241243025 (Source: Language and Speech)
Source: Language and Speech - April 22, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Si Berrebi Sharon Peperkamp Source Type: research
Anxiety, depression and quality of life in patients with head and neck cancer undergoing laryngectomy: A long-term prospective evaluation
CONCLUSION: Anxiety, depression and QoL in laryngectomised patients improved at 1 year after surgery and were maintained for up to 5 years.WHAT THIS PAPER ADDS: What is already known on the subject Laryngectomy is associated with prolonged functional and psychological effects and has a major impact on patient quality of life (QoL). Several prospective studies evaluating the QoL in laryngectomised patients have been reported, in which significant deterioration in social functioning was found even 1 year after surgery. What this paper adds to existing knowledge One year is not a sufficient period for laryngectomised patients...
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - April 22, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Nobuaki Mukoyama Naoki Nishio Hiroyuki Kimura Tatsuya Tokura Shinichi Kishi Kazuyoshi Ogasawara Hidenori Tsuzuki Sayaka Yokoi Akihisa Wada Mayu Shigeyama Norio Ozaki Yasushi Fujimoto Michihiko Sone Source Type: research
Anxiety, depression and quality of life in patients with head and neck cancer undergoing laryngectomy: A long-term prospective evaluation
CONCLUSION: Anxiety, depression and QoL in laryngectomised patients improved at 1 year after surgery and were maintained for up to 5 years.WHAT THIS PAPER ADDS: What is already known on the subject Laryngectomy is associated with prolonged functional and psychological effects and has a major impact on patient quality of life (QoL). Several prospective studies evaluating the QoL in laryngectomised patients have been reported, in which significant deterioration in social functioning was found even 1 year after surgery. What this paper adds to existing knowledge One year is not a sufficient period for laryngectomised patients...
Source: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - April 22, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Nobuaki Mukoyama Naoki Nishio Hiroyuki Kimura Tatsuya Tokura Shinichi Kishi Kazuyoshi Ogasawara Hidenori Tsuzuki Sayaka Yokoi Akihisa Wada Mayu Shigeyama Norio Ozaki Yasushi Fujimoto Michihiko Sone Source Type: research
Modelling the developmental path in the acquisition of /l/-final irregular plurals by Portuguese children
. (Source: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics)
Source: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics - April 22, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Chao ZhouMaria Jo ão FreitasSchool of Arts and Humanities, Center of Linguistics, University of Lisbon, Portugal Source Type: research
Semantic Cues Facilitate Structural Generalizations in Artificial Language Learning
. (Source: Language Learning and Development)
Source: Language Learning and Development - April 21, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Erin ConwellJesse Snedekera Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USAb Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Source Type: research
