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Burrows, Lauren; Jarmulowicz, Linda; Oller, D. Kimbrough – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2019
Purpose: The objective of this study was to examine tap production by English language learners (ELLs) in kindergarten whose 1st language is Spanish. The conflicting status of tap in Spanish and English could present challenges for allophonic learning in 2nd language for ELLs. Prior research has evaluated acquisition of other allophone pairs, but…
Descriptors: Phonemes, English Language Learners, Spanish Speaking, Kindergarten
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Noiray, Aude; Abakarova, Dzhuma; Rubertus, Elina; Krüger, Stella; Tiede, Mark – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: This study reports on a cross-sectional investigation of lingual coarticulation in 57 typically developing German children (4 cohorts from 3.5 to 7 years of age) as compared with 12 adults. It examines whether the organization of lingual gestures for intrasyllabic coarticulation differs as a function of age and consonantal context.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Adults, Linguistics
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de Graaff, Saskia; Hasselman, Fred; Verhoeven, Ludo; Bosman, Anna M. T. – Learning and Instruction, 2011
The aim of the present study was to provide more insight in the relative difficulty of four tasks testing phonemic awareness: (a) blending, (b) isolation, (c) segmentation, and (d) deletion. At the same time the roles of phoneme position and phoneme class were taken into account in a fully balanced way. To this purpose, 141 kindergartners were…
Descriptors: Phonology, Phonemic Awareness, Indo European Languages, Kindergarten
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Roberts, Theresa A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2005
Relationships among articulation, vocabulary, phonemic awareness, and word reading were examined in 45 children who spoke either Hmong or Spanish as their primary language. A theoretical perspective suggesting that English articulation and vocabulary would influence children's English phonemic awareness and English word reading was developed.…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Second Language Learning, Articulation (Speech), Kindergarten