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On wh-copying in Mon
This paper presents the first detailed study of pronouncing multiple wh -pronouns within the same dependency in Mon (Mon-Khmer). I argue the data...
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Concurrent and longitudinal predictors of beginning writing in Chinese: the unique role of copying skills
Pure copying skill (copying of unfamiliar scripts) and delayed copying (copying of unfamiliar Chinese characters presented previously) can both be...
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Effects of metalinguistic awareness on Chinese as a second language spelling through the mediation of reading and copying
This study investigated the influence of various types of Chinese metalinguistic awareness on spelling through the mediation of character reading and...
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Copying skills in children with and without dyslexia
While copying skills are used daily at school and involve spelling abilities, studies examining copying performance in children with dyslexia are...
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Parallel copying in dislocation copying: evidence from Cantonese
Cantonese exhibits dislocation copying, a phenomenon whereby some syntactic material in a canonical sentence is repeated after the sentence particle....
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Visual-orthographic skills predict the covariance of Chinese word reading and arithmetic calculation
This study provides evidence connecting two aspects of visual-orthographic skills (orthographic awareness and delayed copying) to the common variance...
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Antecedent-contained argument ellipsis in Japanese
This article aims to provide new and solid evidence for the observation made in the previous literature that antecedent containment needs to be...
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The morphosyntax of Gothic preverb compounds: incorporation and applicativisation
Gothic preverb compounds illustrate several interesting characteristics, including multiple preverb stacking, idiomatisation, tmesis...
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Spelling as a way to classify poor Chinese-English literacy skills in Hong Kong Chinese children
Previous work has predominantly focused on word reading in studying literacy difficulties; very little work has focused on spelling difficulty...
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Executive functions mediate fine motor skills’ contribution to literacy achievement: a longitudinal study of Arabic-speaking children
Fine motor skills (FMS) are among the most studied nonlinguistic factors influencing early literacy acquisition. Although developmental studies have...
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Learning a typologically unusual reduplication pattern: An artificial language learning study of base-dependent reduplication
We report on an artificial language learning experiment testing the learnability of a typologically rare pattern of reduplication. Our model comes...
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“Within-Category” Consonant–Vowel Interactions in Tashlhit: Labialized Consonant Alternations
Tashlhit Berber presents two distinct, within-category C-V interactions involving the labialized velar and uvular consonants (Cw). First, these...
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The cognitive-linguistic profiles and academic performances of Chinese children with dyslexia across cultures: Bei**g, Hong Kong, and Taipei
This study examined the cognitive-linguistic and literacy-related correlates of dyslexia in three Chinese cities and the English word reading and...
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Spreading and correspondence in Huave vowel copy
Assimilation is a central phenomenon in phonology, yet there is little consensus on either its representation or computation. In particular, the...
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Argument ellipsis as external merge after transfer
Argument Ellipsis (AE) is a productive process in Hebrew, but some arguments resist ellipsis—precisely those that do not denote individuals. This...
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Assessing handwriting: a method for detailed analysis of letter-formation accuracy and fluency
Educationally-oriented measures of handwriting fluency – tasks such as written alphabet recall and sentence copying – conflate graphomotor skill and...
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Cross-sectional examination of the proficiency of year 1 and year 2 children’s alphabet-letter-writing skills
The objective for beginning writers is to learn how to generate alphabet-letters which are recognisable and easy to read. This study investigated the...
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Integration of Cognate Loan Verbs in Contact Between Closely Related Languages Effecting Valency Changes
In contact between closely related languages like Old Norse (ON) and Old English (OE), higher similarity between units of the languages in contact...
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Role of transcription skills in young Chinese language learners’ sentence writing: a one year longitudinal study
The effects of transcription skills, comprising both spelling and handwriting fluency, on sentence writing among young Chinese as a second language...
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Adverbial particle modification and argument ellipsis in Japanese
This paper shows that adverbial particles are divided into the “strong” and “weak” types depending on how they behave in the context of argument...
