(1) It is argued that exposure to a linguistic structure that induces the child to operate on that structure can lead to a reorganization of linguistic knowledge even though no direct feedback has been given as to its correct adult interpretation.
(2) Underperformance in reading, writing, and other linguistic skills as well as visuo-spatial excellence may result from these changes.
(3) The linguistic performances of 15 noninstitutionalized and 15 institutionalized retarded children were compared on usage of grammatical categories and structure of spoken language (Length--Complexity Index) and for underlying subskills (Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities).
(4) Fundamental frequency (F0) values are reported for 14 children between the ages of 11 and 25 months, an age period characterized by changes in physiological and linguistic development.
(5) It has been argued that linguistic usage pertaining to female sexuality generally is the product of a patriarchal value structure and, as such, reflects patriarchal prejudices about female sexuality.
(6) The search for the acoustic properties useful to the listener in extracting the linguistic message from a speech signal is often construed as the task of matching invariant physical properties to invariant phonological percepts; the discovery of the former will explain the latter.
(7) Much of the research dealing with linguistic dimensions in stuttering has emphasized the various aspects of grammar, particularly as these aspects contribute to the meaning of utterances.
(8) Prior to undertaking the exploration of phenomena in a research study with people from different cultures, certain elements must be addressed in order to bridge cultural and linguistic differences.
(9) The main effects and interactions of speech and gesture in combination with quantitative models of performance showed the following similarities in information processing between preschoolers and adults: (1) referential evaluation of gestures occurs independently of the evaluation of linguistic reference; (2) speech and gesture are continuous, rather than discrete, sources of information; (3) 5-year-olds and adults combine the two types of information in such a way that the least ambiguous source has the most impact on the judgment.
(10) The model is based on neural processes rather than linguistic or symbolic constructs.
(11) The literature suggests that cleft palate children and adults perform below their peers on both linguistic and nonlinguistic tasks.
(12) Broca's aphasia is characterized by disorders on the phonemic, syntactic and lexical level of linguistic description.
(13) Rozanne Colchester , a linguist who worked on Italian airforce codes and was an MI6 agent after the war, said: "There were a great many love affairs going on about which we did not speak in those claustrophobic days of the war.
(14) Linguistic analysis shows that the information is written in a difficult style with a median readability index of 48.2.
(15) Applicants were then required to provide strong evidence to the NSW crown solicitor’s office of connection to country, and included affidavits from traditional owners and reports by an anthropologist, historian and linguist.
(16) The speech problems of our patients seemed to indicate higher level motor encoding problems of linguistic information rather than peripheral articulatory deficits.
(17) This diversity approximated that found when linguistically unrelated groups were compared.
(18) These results differ from those obtained previously with noncorresponding pairs of linguistic-nonlinguistic dimensions.
(19) "This research is not only an extremely complex and interesting study of songbirds, it also gives us a unique insight into how brain development may contribute to human linguistic capabilities," said Prof Tamas Szekely of the Biodiversity Lab at the University of Bath's department of biology and biochemistry.
(20) Strong relationships appear between linguistic and fine motor skills in an age group not previously investigated and at higher levels than reported in studies of infants and very young children.
Literacy
Definition:
(n.) State of being literate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mother and Sister take over with more nuanced emotional literacy.
(2) Local church groups run family outreach programs and free literacy courses for refugees.
(3) But surely all this short-form writing is eroding literacy?
(4) Which is a monstrous statistic, especially when you start thinking about it as a statistic that measures not just literacy but also as a measure of imagination and empathy, because a book is a little empathy machine.
(5) Since World War II the literacy rate has jumped to 90%, and has received recognition by UNESCO for its efforts.
(6) Think co-ordinator Dr Carlos Gigoux said: “Think seminars really make a university what it should be - a place where you think creatively and critically and engage with society from a human and professional experience.” Runner up: Teesside University The Student’s Academic Literacy Tool (Salt) is a writing tool that helps students learn about the key stylistic features required for a high standard of academic writing.
(7) It means that children entering reception class in September 2015 are likely to be assessed using the new system, recording each child’s literacy and numeracy skills within a few weeks of their starting school.
(8) High literacy among mothers, good breast-feeding practices, low mortality due to diarrhoea, malaria, and measles, and a well-functioning rural health care system were considered to be the main contributing factors to the low infant mortality.
(9) The evaluation was conducted for children only at the end of the project because of literacy problems, but mothers were administered questionnaires pre- and postproject with 8% absenteeism at the end of the project.
(10) This coverage was low despite the relatively high literacy rate in Akpabuyo (57.8%).
(11) Low literacy is a problem in a large segment of our population.
(12) This study assesses the relationship between literacy and labour rates among the adults and children in 17 Indian states.
(13) The impact of maternal literacy status on the nutritional status of pre-school children in Parbhani was studied.
(14) Longterm gains in this area require attention to behavioral and community development issues, including reduction of the sex and parity related differentials in mortality, enhancement of the status of women, improved female literacy and employment opportunities, improved intrafamilial food distribution patterns, maternity benefits, provision of potable water, intersectoral development to strengthen health care delivery, increased community participation, expanded health services, and enhancement of the pace of development.
(15) It is expected that with increasing literacy and progress in sex knowledge the syndrome will become less common.
(16) The acquisition of information literacy and fluency will be mandatory techniques for the future practice of medicine and should be taught at the institutional level by faculty sophisticated in the use of information retrieval systems.
(17) Unlike in Mali , education is free in the camp so this is a good place to start.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nafissa with a volunteer and an employee of Intersos’s support centre for gender-based violence Unicef says 6,000 children who had never been to school have attended literacy classes at Mbera since 2013.
(18) Later, she signed up for courses in literacy, numeracy and retail at a sixth form college in Stratford, east London, working as a domestic cleaner to pay her bus fare.
(19) Changes in health service and infant mortality seem natural results of the betterment of education and literacy.
(20) Further support for such conceptualizing is found in a positive correlation between certain low literacy skills and the specific results (in 6000 examined cases) on the new drawing test.