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Full-Text Articles in Phonetics and Phonology
Songs, Lushootseed Language Institute, Zalmai Zeke Zahir
Songs, Lushootseed Language Institute, Zalmai Zeke Zahir
Lushootseed Language Institute
Song #1: This song refers to our language and culture. It is for us.
Song #2 This song is for the language.
Song #3: Greeting song. This song is used as a greeting by the Snoqualmie people.
Song #4: Shoes off song. This song is a celebration of taking our shoes off and reestablishing our connections to the Mother Earth.
Song #5: "Squirrel Song" The work is kind of easy. This is a challenge dance song. The dance itself represents the squirrel's chasing each other as often times seen in the woods. It consists of hopping low to the ground …
Individual And Group Differences In Sound Category Learning, Ben Carlstrom
Individual And Group Differences In Sound Category Learning, Ben Carlstrom
Student Research Symposium
Abstract: We examined the role of procedural-, declarative-, and working-memory systems in adults learning novel sound categories. Adults have fully developed declarative-memory skills that sometimes inhibit their ability to learn implicitly/procedurally (Filoteo, Lauritzen, & Maddox, 2010). Models of impaired language like the Procedural Deficit Hypothesis suggest that procedural-memory deficits are predictive of language-learning outcomes (Lum, Conti-Ramsden, Page, & Ullman, 2011). This study tested the hypothesis that language structure is best learned implicitly/procedurally, which has implications for L2 learning and language impairment. The novel sound categories presented to participants varied along a phonologically non-native dimension, pitch, and a native dimension, vowel …