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Speech sound categorization is a building block of downstream language processes, however, speech categorization can itself be influenced by lexical knowledge: Speakers tend to resolve ambiguous speech sounds in favor of real-word rather than non-word interpretations (Ganong,1980). Some studies have shown that older adults exhibit an increased lexical bias (e.g., Mattys and Scharenborg, 2014). However, previous work establishing this link has relied on an experimental paradigm in which participants are forced to make a binary choice, a task that may be overly sensitive to higher-level strategies and can obscure the distinction between responses that are highly variable and highly gradient (Apfelbaum et al., 2022). We thus asked if the link between aging and lexical bias persists in a more sensitive paradigm, in which participants indicated the extent to which a stimulus matches one of two categories using a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). We performed an online study (n = 60) in which older and younger adults responded to a nine-step continua between either two words, or a word and a non-word (à la Ganong, 1980). Preliminary results suggest that while older adults are not necessarily more lexically biased generally, those with increased response variability do show a stronger lexical bias.

This study investigates infants' enculturation to music in a bicultural musical environment. We tested 49 12- to 30-month-old Korean infants on their preference for Korean or Western traditional songs played by haegeum and cello. Korean infants have access to both Korean and Western music in their environment as captured on a survey of infants' daily exposure to music at home. Our results show that infants with less daily exposure to any kind of music at home listened longer to all music types. The infants' overall listening time did not differ between Korean and Western music and instruments. Rather, those with high exposure to Western music listened longer to Korean music played with haegeum. Moreover, older toddlers (aged 24-30 months) maintained a longer interest in songs of an origin with which they are less familiar, indicating an emerging orientation towards novelty. Early orientation of Korean infants toward the novel experience of music listening is likely driven by perceptual curiosity, which drives exploratory behavior that diminishes with continued exposure. On the other hand, older infants' orientation towards novel stimuli is led by epistemic curiosity, which motivates an infant to acquire new knowledge. Korean infants' lack of differential listening likely reflects their protracted period of enculturation to ambient music due to complex input. Further, older infants' novelty-orientation is consistent with findings in bilingual infants' orientation towards novel information. Additional analysis showed a long-term effect of music exposure on infants' vocabulary development. A video abstract of this article can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kllt0KA1tJk RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS: Korean infants showed novelty-oriented attention to music such that infants with less daily exposure to music at home showed longer listening times to music. 12- to 30-month-old Korean infants did not show differential listening to Korean versus Western music or instruments, suggesting a protracted period of perceptual openness. 24- to 30-month-old Korean toddlers' listening behavior indicated emerging novelty-preference, exhibiting delayed enculturation to ambient music compared to Western infants reported in earlier research. 18-month-old Korean infants with a greater weekly exposure to music had higher CDI scores a year later, consistent with the well-known music-to-language transfer effect.

L’apprentissage de l’orthographe grammaticale (OG) française pose de grands défis aux élèves, tant en langue première qu’en langue seconde (Lefrançois et al., 2008). Dans ce contexte, notre étude s’intéresse à l’expérimentation d’un « dispositif plurilingue » d’enseignement de l’OG française auprès d’élèves bi/plurilingues de première secondaire au Québec. Mettant en œuvre une pédagogie du translanguaging (Cenoz et Gorter, 2020; Garcia et al., 2017) et comportant des activités d’éveil aux langues (Auger, 2014), ce dispositif inclut également des dictées métacognitives (Nadeau et Fisher, 2014) et une approche intégrée (Allal, 2018). Des prétests et des posttests (dictées et productions écrites) ont permis d’évaluer les effets du dispositif pour certains objets spécifiquement (accord du verbe, de l’adjectif et du participe passé avec être [PPE], terminaisons verbales en /E/), en comparaison avec un dispositif monolingue et des pratiques habituelles d’enseignement. Il est notamment constaté qu’une force particulière du dispositif plurilingue est d’ancrer les apprentissages dans la durée pour l’accord de l’adjectif et du PPE.

In this, our 67 th volume, we will be publishing three, rather than the customary four, issues.We will be publishing the same number of pages and cutting-edge articles as usual this year, but two thirds of these articles will be found in two thematic issues.67.3 will be a thematic issue on Substance Free Phonology, and 67.4 will be a thematic issue on pronominal structure.As each of these thematic issues is the size of an issue and a half, we have decided to number this first issue 67.1-2; a double issue in name, while being single-issued in size.

O objetivo do presente trabalho foi detalhar, através de uma revisão narrativa de literatura, as principais características do Lúpus Eritematoso Sistêmico (LES), assim como suas complicações prevalentes, métodos diagnósticos mais eficazes e manejo recomendado. Sabe-se que o LES é uma doença inflamatória autoimune, crônica, multifatorial, cujo tratamento contínuo representa grande impacto no cotidiano dos pacientes e de seus familiares. O diagnóstico desta patologia é feito a partir da realização de exames laboratoriais atrelado a avaliação sintomatológica, a qual é complexa devido a diversidade de manifestações clínicas. Ainda que seu tratamento tenha evoluído ao longo dos anos e o prognóstico tenha melhorado com o uso de múltiplos medicamentos como antimaláricos, glicocorticóides, anti-inflamatórios não esteroidais e outros imunossupressores, seus índices de morbimortalidade permanecem elevados devido à grande quantidade de complicações associadas. Desta forma, reforça-se a importância da atuação de equipes multiprofissionais capacitadas em lidar com portadores desta patologia, bem como a realização contínua de estudos com vistas a proporcionar melhor qualidade de vida a esses indivíduos.

Cette introduction rappelle les principales orientations du colloque qui s'est tenu a Nice en avril 2018 : dresser le bilan des connaissances sur Louis Meigret et envisager de nouvelles perspectives pour la recherche. Si l’œuvre du grammairien reformateur de l'orthographe est desormais mieux connue, elle resiste par certains aspects a l’interpretation et merite encore toute notre attention. D'autres champs restent en revanche a explorer, tout particulierement l’œuvre du traducteur.

L’Espagne, pays multilingue, est caractérisé par le monolinguisme de son État central. Cette situation contraste vivement avec celle du Canada, par exemple, où l’État fédéral est bilingue et s’adresse en principe à ses citoyens dans les deux langues nationales. En partant de ces deux situations, et en se fondant sur l’exemple des communications relatives à l’actuelle pandémie, ce texte examine l’opportunité d’une modification constitutionnelle qui permettrait de sauvegarder les droits des citoyens et le patrimoine linguistique de la société espagnole.

A presente obra – Discurso Académico: Uma área disciplinar em construção – integra artigos selecionados do I Encontro Nacional sobre Discurso Académico (ENDA 1), realizado em 2018 na Escola Superior de Educação e Ciências Sociais do Instituto Politécnico de Leiria. Destinado a estabelecer relações de sinergia e de diálogo entre núcleos de investigadores, o ENDA 1 reuniu representantes de diferentes quadros teóricos e instituições, que desenvolvem trabalho no domínio específico do discurso académico em Portugal. O livro reflete o entrecruzamento e a complementaridade dos eixos que atravessam o discurso académico, abrangendo os seus atores: docentes, discentes e investigadores. Inserido no horizonte de uma área em construção, sustentada pela multiplicidade de orientações teóricas, de modos semióticos, de áreas do conhecimento, de níveis de ensino e, até, de espaços geográficos, mobiliza contributos que, em certa medida, ainda são estaleiro, mas que já se projetam como obra parcialmente edificada.

The paper aims at discussing one of the most prominent scenarios of current Higher Education: blended learning. We subscribe the view presented in Contemporary Terminology, which is a powerful discipline that aims at representing, describing and defining specialized knowledge through language. Concepts, as elements of the structure of) emerge as a complex research object. Can they be found in language? A concept-based approach to Terminology implies a clear-cut view of the role of language in terminological work: though language is postulated as being a fundamental tool to grasp, describe and organize knowledge an isomorphic principle cannot be taken for granted. In other words, the foundational premise of a concept-based approach is thatthere is no one-to-one correspondence between atomic elements of knowledge and atomic elements of linguistic expression. However, specialized text research is here regarded as a valuable tool to study concept, as text is a natural environment for scientific and technical discourse.

CORPORART – PT/IT is a bilingual comparable corpus of the Public Art domain. It comprises sub corpora for contemporary European Portuguese and Italian, from 2000 to 2018, covering text types and subdomains representative of the production of specialized texts in this highly interdisciplinary domain.