Previous evidence suggests that the structure of similarity neighbourhoods in the developing mental lexicon may differ from that of the fully developed lexicon. The similarity relationships used to organize words into neighbourhoods was investigated in 20 pre-school children (age 3;7 to 5;11) using a two alternative forced-choice classification task. Children classified the similarity of test w...

Voice-over-IP is expected to become a popular service offered by the internet. Thus, it is important to ensure high quality of service. In this paper, we look at two standards proposed for evaluating the intelligibility of Chinese speech. Adopting the philosophy and methodology of the Diagnostic Rhyme Test (DRT) for testing English speech, the Chinese Diagnostic Rhyme Test (CDRT) evaluates the ...

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One of the important tasks at any stage teaching a foreign language, including French, is to maintain and improve pronunciation skills. The phonetic process that facilitates formation such skills rhyme.

Abstract This article analyses the romantic-Zionist poetry of Nina Davis Salaman, contextualising it alongside other fin-de-siècle Zionist poets to argue that she too similarly adopted bibliocentric, prophetic, and diasporic perspectives, particularly themes associated with medieval Andalusian Judah Halevi. In doing so, much like Anglo-Jewish women writers, defined her own subjectivity in conte...

A longitudinal study of one child aged 2;5 documents an invented language game consisting of suffixal reduplication and onset replacement. Initially, reduplication is partial: the reduplicant enlarges in discrete increments over the five stages of the game until by the last stage reduplication is total. Reduplication is accompanied by a process of onset replacement, in which the reduplicant alw...

Infants' preferences for a novel or familiar nursery rhyme were examined as an index of long-term memory. One-to 2-month-old infants' preference were tested, using a nonnutritive sucking, discrimination-learning procedure, at 1, 2, or 3 days after the last of multiple familiarization sessions. A consistent novelty preference was observed at the 1-day retention interval, no consistent preference...

This study was designed to investigate orthographic effects on spoken word recognition by combining the priming paradigm with a measure of event-related brain potentials (ERPs). Primes and targets either shared both orthography and phonology of the rhyme (beef-reef) or they shared rhyme phonology only (leaf-reef). The two "related" conditions were compared against an "unrelated" condition (sick...