Specific Language Impairment Across Languages

Metacognitive (Rending) Strategies Across Languages and Techniques

Extensible Host Language for Domain-Specific Languages

Programming languages greatly influence the way how programs are created and evolved. This means that the use of appropriate language for solved problem can greatly increase developer productivity. Composition of languages can provide great help in construction of a new language from existing components and for integration of several languages that may be needed to effectively solve a complex p...

Domain-Specific Languages, and Language Design Assistants

While application software does the real work, domain-specific languages (DSLs) are tools to help produce it efficiently, and language design assistants in turn are meta-tools to help produce DSLs quickly. DSLs are already in wide use (HTML for web pages, Excel macros for spreadsheet applications, VHDL for hardware design, . . .), but many more will be needed for both new as well as existing ap...

Perceptual salience of language-specific acoustic differences in autonomous fillers across eight languages

Are acoustic differences in autonomous fillers salient for the human perception ? Acoustic measurements have been carried out on autonomous fillers from eight languages (Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Italian, European Portuguese, American English and Latin American Spanish). They exhibit timbre differences of the support vowel of autonomous fillers across languages. In order to eval...

Lexical Access in Persian Speaking Children With and Without Specific Language Impairment

Introduction: Word retrieval problems are among the limitations observed in children with specific language impairment during the initial schooling years. These restrictions are predictive of reading problems and poor performance at school. Additionally, studies on lexical access in Persian speaking children are scarce. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate and compare naming accuracy and ...