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Daniel Barber

Is there a universal language of sound? | David Shariatmadari | Opinion | The Guardian - 0 views

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    Evidence that "sound symbolism" extends much further than onomatopeia. Universals across languages.
Daniel Barber

The linguistic genius of babies: what does it mean for grown-ups? | teflresearch - 0 views

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    Babies soon hone in on the subtleties of their mother tongue's phonological idiosyncrasies at the expense of foreign sounds, and what this means for older people learning second languages.
Daniel Barber

Pictorial mnemonics and sound contrasting yield more effective English teaching - 0 views

  • images they used linked the shapes of the alphabet letters with images of Japanese words that begin with those letters
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    Evidence for pedagogic sense in involving learners' knowledge of L1 to aid their acquisition of L2. Learners associate English letters with Japanese words as a mnemonic. Also, explicit differentiation of the two language systems' phonic systems seems to help better understanding of English in Japanese children.
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