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Language
It is certainly fitting to have a chapter on language in a vocabulary book. The fact that how we talk (and write) about creativity relates closely to...
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Teaching Foreign Language
Behavior analysis possesses conceptual tools and traditions of potential value to solving problems in foreign-language teaching and learning....
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Language and Communication
This chapter asks to what extent similar principles of language use can be found in all cultures and to what extent there are culture-specific...
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Do Animals Have Language?
This question may seem strange when one considers the many forms of communication with which animals use: body signals, scents, sounds, their...
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The R Programming Language
This book is accompanied by an open-source software tool that allows for deriving regression-based normative data in a straightforward way. The...
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Language Multitasking
When people are able to communicate in more than one language, language switching, as one form of language multitasking, can and will occur in...
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How Language Use Can Empower Women: The Discourse on Gender-Equitable Language in Germany
This chapter shows that language is a powerful tool for gender equality and thus for the sustainable empowerment of women. It argues that social...
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Empathy, the Performed Self and Shakespeare’s Language
Shakespeare adopted a perspective of the self which was subject to change and was defined by social interactions. The Theatrical Self, involved in...
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Language Maintenance and Family Language Policy
One of the most significant contributions of this book to the field is bringing together various interdisciplinary perspectives on the same topic to...
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Language-Based Measures of Mindfulness
This chapter discusses the reliability, validity, and utility of language-based measures of mindfulness (LBMM). The instrument was designed to assess...
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Multiple Language Use and Text Comprehension
The second chapter discusses the specific problems for text comprehension that are encountered when multiple language competences and multiple...
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Morphological Analysis and Its Impact on Written Language Development in Children With and Without Language Disorders
Literacy progress of children with an atypical language acquisition has been studied from different approaches, and the phonological awareness is the...
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Infants’ Contributions to Prelinguistic Conversations Drive Language Learning
Infants engage in conversations with caregivers using facial expressions and body language, gaze, vocalizations, and gestures. These cues quickly...
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Argument Structure in Peruvian Sign Language
This chapter offers an analysis of Peruvian Sign Language argument structure. It argues, following insights from research on other sign languages,...
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The Interplay Among the Linguistic Environment, Language Perception, and Production in Children’s Language-Specific Development
This chapter explains how children’s language-specific sound perception and production interact with each other to feed subsequent morphological and...
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Pupil Dilation as a Dependent Variable in Language Research
In this chapter, we review research in which pupillometry has been used to investigate language processing. We group studies based on three major...
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Communication and Language Assessment in Females with Autism
Toddlers and preschoolers with autism are often initially referred for assessment due to concerns regarding speech and language. It is important that...
