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Access to math activities for children with disabilities by controlling Lego robots via augmentative and alternative communication devices
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Children who have complex communication needs often use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices and strategies to address their communication requirements. If they have concurrent physical impairments, they may have difficulty accessing educational materials, especially when...
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2016-01-01
By investigating prosody beyond pitch and duration, this article provides a detailed and multifaceted picture of focus marking in a language that differs substantially from more extensively studied languages like English. A production study examined prosodic focus marking in Finnish based on...
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2018-03-15
SSHRC PEG Awarded 2018: Two in-depth case studies will evaluate use of Lego Mindstorm robots and teaching materials developed specifically for these as math aids, by students with hand-based disabilities, their teachers, and Assistive Technology team. Quantitative data collected will include 1)...
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Prosodic focus marking in clefts and syntactically unmarked equivalents: Prosody–syntax trade-off or additive effects?
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Two experiments quantitatively investigated the interaction of prosody and syntax in marking focus in English. A production study with 28 participants (analyzing 919 utterances) found that the acoustic marking of subject focus vs broad focus, induced through a preceding context question, was...
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2018-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2018: Canadian English is vastly understudied. This is particularly true regarding the melody and rhythm of Canadian speech (prosody/intonation). Prosody features as key in most theoretical and applied research that involves spoken language, but in Canadian English, these...
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2021-05-01
Arnhold, Anja, Elfner, Emily, Compton, Richard
These supplementary materials present detailed results of statistical modelling described in the following book chapter: Arnhold, A., Elfner, E., & Compton, R. (to appear). Inuktitut and the concept of word-level prominence. In K. Bogomolets & H. van der Hulst (Eds.), Word prominence in languages...
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2009
Adams, Kimberley, Bisantz, Ann, Sunm, Michelle, Higginbotham, Jeffrey
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices are special purpose electronic devices that generate speech output and are used by individuals who have specialized communication needs instead of voice communication. Word prediction, including context specific prediction has been proposed...
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2016-10-14
SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: In everyday conversation, we need to rapidly find referents for pronouns when we process language. This process is guided by what is said, but also by where and how it is said. How do children learn to understand pronouns in real time conversation? This project will...
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2022-09-01
Alden, McKinley, Arnhold, Anja
This document is a step-by-step description of the process for deriving stress in Central Alaskan Yup'ik words, complete with a brief overview of the stress system of the language and detailed examples.