Enhanced Verbal Statistical Learning in Glossolalia

Glossolalia as regressive speech.

the verbal constructions in azari (harzani dialect)

most of the verbal constructions of harzani dialect have got inflectional affixes. the majority of the constructions are made up vy adding a specific verbal affix to the verbal stem (infinitive without infinitive marker). only a few number of them is formed by adding a verbal affix to the past participle of the verb. there are specific rules for the formation of different verbal types. there is...

Enhanced visual statistical learning in adults with autism.

OBJECTIVE Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are often characterized as having social engagement and language deficiencies, but a sparing of visuospatial processing and short-term memory (STM), with some evidence of supranormal levels of performance in these domains. The present study expanded on this evidence by investigating the observational learning of visuospatial concepts fro...

Consonant Vowel Co-occurrence Patterns in Glossolalia

A preference for physiologically economical consonant vowel combinations labial+central vowel, coronal+front vowel and velar+back vowel has been identified as characteristic in infant babbling for a number of languages (Davis and MacNeilage 1990 and 1995, Zlatić et al. 1997, Texeira and Davis 2002.) In adult language, where perceptual needs demand combinatorial complexity, these patterns are le...

Non-Verbal Learning Disability

The Interactive Metronome (IM) is a neuromotor therapy program that utilizes a highly adaptive technology to help individuals improve their underlying motor planning and sequencing ability. A study in the American Journal of Occupational Therapy (March/April 2001) reported that children who received IM treatment showed statistically significant changes in attention, motor control, language proc...