The acquisition of contrastive focus during online sentence-comprehension by children learning mandarin Chinese.
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DOI: 10.1037/dev0001498
Abstract: Contrastive focus, conveyed by prosodic cues, marks important information. Studies have shown that 6-year-olds learning English and Japanese can use contrastive focus during online sentence comprehension: focus used in a contrastive context facilitates the identification… read more here.
Keywords: form; acquisition contrastive; contrastive focus; year olds ... See more keywords
Memory benefits from contrastive focus truly require focus: evidence from clefts and connectives
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DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2021.1901944
Abstract: ABSTRACT Across three experiments, we investigated how different markers of contrastive focus affect text encoding and retention. Prior work suggests that some contrastive focus markers (e.g. contrastive pitch accents) can enhance long-term memory for discourse;… read more here.
Keywords: focus; contrastive focus; focus markers; memory benefits ... See more keywords
Contrastive Focus Reduplication in Kuwaiti Arabic
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DOI: 10.1093/jss/fgad006
Abstract: This study examines a case of total reduplication in Kuwaiti Arabic known as contrastive focus reduplication (i.e. complete copying of words or phrases). For example, tišrab čāy ḥalīb willa ČĀY–čāy? ‘Would you like to drink… read more here.
Keywords: kuwaiti arabic; reduplication; focus reduplication; contrastive focus ... See more keywords
Effect of contrastive focus on vowel duration in Bangla
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DOI: 10.1121/1.5035753
Abstract: The present study looks at Bangla, spoken near Kolkata, West Bengal, which has got the status of standard Bangla in present era, belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family. Vowel length distinction… read more here.
Keywords: focus; bangla; effect contrastive; contrastive focus ... See more keywords
Vocabulary learning through listening: Comparing L2 explanations, teacher codeswitching, contrastive focus-on-form and incidental learning
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DOI: 10.1177/1362168819829022
Abstract: This study explored the teaching and learning of vocabulary through listening among 137 senior high-school learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) in China. It compared different types of Lexical Focus-on-Form delivered to four… read more here.
Keywords: focus; contrastive focus; focus form; post ... See more keywords