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An embodied multi-articulatory multimodal language framework: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek. 一个具身的多发音多模态语言框架：Karadöller、simer和Özyürek述评。

IF 1.6 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1177/01427237251326977

Rachel Miles, Shai Lynne Nielson, Deniz İlkbaşaran, Rachel I Mayberry

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The visual modality serves 'double duty' for sign language learners: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek. 视觉形式为手语学习者提供了“双重责任”：对Karadöller， s<s:1> mer和Özyürek的评论。

IF 1.6 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-11 DOI: 10.1177/01427237251333485

Amy M Lieberman

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Children's endorsement of prosocial lies according to content and recipient knowledge. 儿童对亲社会的认同取决于内容和接受者的知识。

IF 1.6 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2025-07-14 eCollection Date: 2026-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/01427237251348529

Shirley Ong, Elizabeth S Nilsen

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Corrigendum to “Does the processing advantage of formulaic language persist in its nonadjacent forms? Evidence from Chinese collocation processing in children” 公式化语言的加工优势在非相邻形式中是否依然存在？来自儿童汉语搭配加工的证据"

IF 1.9 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2024-09-06 DOI: 10.1177/01427237241276902

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Inflectional morphology and reading comprehension in low SES Arabic-speaking second graders 低社会经济地位阿拉伯语二年级学生的词形变化和阅读理解能力

IF 1.9 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2024-08-30 DOI: 10.1177/01427237241272523

Vered Vaknin-Nusbaum, Bahaa’ Makhoul

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Corrigendum to “Establishing Guidelines for MLU measurement in an agglutinating language: An illustration of Georgian” 制定凝集语言的多语言单位测量准则：以格鲁吉亚语为例"

IF 1.9 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2024-08-02 DOI: 10.1177/01427237241274419

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Development of derivational morphology in Kuwaiti Arabic-speaking children 科威特阿拉伯语儿童派生词形态的发展

IF 1.9 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2024-07-24 DOI: 10.1177/01427237241261793

Nailah Al-Sulaihim, Fauzia Abdalla, Abdessattar Mahfoudhi, Saleh Shaalan

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Book Review: Zarchy, R. M. & Geer, L. C., A family-centered signed language curriculum to support deaf children’s language acquisition 书评：Zarchy, R. M. & Geer, L. C., A family-centered signed language curriculum to support deaf children's language acquisition

IF 1.9 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2024-07-23 DOI: 10.1177/01427237241261423

Daniel Fobi

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Subject–verb agreement: Three experiments on Catalan 主谓一致：加泰罗尼亚语的三个实验

IF 1.9 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2024-05-28 DOI: 10.1177/01427237241252873

Anna Gavarró, Alejandra Keidel

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Using cognitive measures from linguistic relativity research to assess thinking in Yucatec Maya-Spanish bilingual children 利用语言相对论研究中的认知测量方法评估尤卡泰克玛雅-西班牙语双语儿童的思维能力

IF 1.9 2区文学

First Language Pub Date : 2024-05-28 DOI: 10.1177/01427237241253315

Jaime Inocencio Chi Pech

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