the purpose of this article is to determine the phonemic status of [h] and [ʔ] in the sistani dialect of miyankangi. auditory tests applied to the relevant data show that [ʔ] occurs mainly in word-initial position, where it stands in free variation with ø. the only place where [h] is heard is in arabic and persian loanwords, and only in the pronunciation of some speakers who are educated and/or...

the present study was an attempt to compare the effect of three vlss, namely word-part strategy, word-card strategy and context-clue strategy on immediate and delayed english vocabulary retention of iranian third grade high school students. to this end, 90 students, studying at three high schools in tabriz, in three intact groups, were considered as the participants of the study. in order to en...

Child development researchers often discuss a "two-word" stage during language acquisition. However, there is still debate over whether the existence of this stage reflects primarily cognitive or linguistic constraints. Analyses of longitudinal data from two Deaf children, Mei and Cal, not exposed to an accessible first language (American Sign Language - ASL) until the age of 6 years, suggest t...

Wheeldon and Lahiri (Journal of Memory and Language 37 (1997) 356) used a prepared speech production task (Sternberg, S., Monsell, S., Knoll, R. L., & Wright, C. E. (1978). The latency and duration of rapid movement sequences: comparisons of speech and typewriting. In G. E. Stelmach (Ed.), Information processing in motor control and learning (pp. 117-152). New York: Academic Press; Sternberg, S...

Three experiments investigated the ability of human learners to concurrently extract and track both joint and conditional probabilities in statistical word learning. In each experiment, participants were briefly trained on novel word– novel object pairs and asked to learn correct mappings by the end of training. Across a series of learning conditions, we systematically manipulated conditional a...