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  2. Phonological development - Wikipedia

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    Weak syllable deletion: omission of an unstressed syllable in the target word, e.g., [nænæ] for ‘banana’ - Final consonant deletion: omission of the final consonant in the target word, e.g., [pikĘŚ] for ‘because’ - Reduplication: production of two identical syllables based on one of the target word syllables, e.g., [baba] for ‘bottle’

  3. Statistical learning in language acquisition - Wikipedia

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    The part-words were syllable sequences composed of the last syllable from one word and the first two syllables from another (such as kupado). Because the part-words had been heard during the time when children were listening to the artificial grammar, preferential listening to these part-words would indicate that children were learning not only ...

  4. Phonemic awareness - Wikipedia

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    Adult English language learners (ELLs) may also benefit from direct PA instruction. A study of Arabic-speaking ELLs in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) program showed substantial gains in vowel recognition and improved C-test scores after PA tuition, despite concerns of the researchers that adult ELLs may negatively perceive PA ...

  5. Phonological awareness - Wikipedia

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    Phonological awareness tasks (adapted from Virginia Department of Education (1998): [12] and Gillon (2004) [1] Listening skills. The ability to attend to and distinguish environmental and speech sounds from one another [12] Alertness: Awareness and localization of sounds; Discrimination: Recognize same/different sounds

  6. Growing number of U.S. adults lack literacy skills, survey shows

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    The share of adults with literacy skills at the lowest measured levels increased, according to the National Center for Education Statistics’ Survey of Adult Skills.

  7. Speech perception - Wikipedia

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    Figure 2: A spectrogram of the phrase "I owe you". There are no clearly distinguishable boundaries between speech sounds. Although listeners perceive speech as a stream of discrete units [citation needed] (phonemes, syllables, and words), this linearity is difficult to see in the physical speech signal (see Figure 2 for an example).

  8. Reading - Wikipedia

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    Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of symbols, often specifically those of a written language, by means of sight or touch. [1] [2] [3] [4]For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spelling), alphabetics, phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and motivation.

  9. Babbling - Wikipedia

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    The production of song is called 'subsong' where vocalizations resemble that of an adult as time passes. Memory for songs is able to form before the period where learning to sing occurs. Social interaction is important in vocal learning where non-singing females can even influence an infant through feedback. [20]