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Talk to me: Parental linguistic practices may hold the key to reducing incidence of language impairment and delay among multiple birth children
Download2005-01-01
Researchers have long known that multiple-birth children are predisposed toward language impairment and delay. Proposed explanations include the frequentlow birth weight of multiple birth children, unspecified genetic factors, and differences in the linguistic environment that seem to correlate...
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Language Development in School-age Children Adopted from Haiti: A Longitudinal Study
2011-07-20
Perry, Ashley, Bylsma, Karen, Yam, Casey
The language development of children adopted internationally is a topic of growing interest, however, most studies have investigated children adopted from China or Eastern Europe. This project is a follow-up study that explored the language development of school-age children who were adopted from...
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A pilot study of the bullying experiences of children who stutter and the coping strategies they use in response
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This qualitative pilot study investigated the bullying experiences of children who stutter, the type of coping strategies that they use to deal with these experiences, and their perceptions of the effectiveness of their coping strategies. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven 10-...
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Comparing the Children’s Communication Checklist to Standardized Tests: Results from School-age Children Adopted from Haiti
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Although research into the language development of children who were internationally adopted is growing, the body of work continues to show mixed results. Part of the difficulty of determining if children who were adopted internationally are at risk for having a language delay is establishing the...
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Lexical tone processing by monolingual and bilingual speakers of tone and non-tone languages
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This study tests early Chinese-English bilinguals’ perception of Thai lexical tone. Lexical tone is a feature that is used contrastively in Chinese but not in English. Chinese-learning infants exhibit native-like treatment of Thai tonal contours, while English learners exhibit non-native...
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Villeneuve, A.-J., Siegel, J. F., & Valdman, A. (2013). Morphophonological Variation in Haitian Creole: the Case of 3SG. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 19(2), Article 22.
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Valdman, Albert, Siegel, Jason F., Villeneuve, Anne-Jose
ABSTRACT: Among French-based creole languages, Haitian Creole is the one with the highest degree of standardization. The written norm, Standard Haitian Creole (SHC), is based on the speech of monolinguals of the capital area, Port-au-Prince, rather than on the variety (kreyòl swa) of the...
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2015-07-29
Perez-Leon, Pollock, Karen, Mullen, Chloe
Children adopted from China (CAC) have a unique path of language development, as they are cast abruptly into a new ambient language, typically with limited or no ongoing exposure to their birth language. They often face additional risks of speech and language delays due to a history of...
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Identifying Factors that Influence the Sustainability of a Gravity-Fed Water System in Rural Haiti
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Background: The sustainability of water supply systems in rural, low resource settings is imperative to address as approximately 25% of water systems fail within four years of installation. Due to a long history of political instability, government corruption, countless natural disasters, and...