maternal language

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Noun1.maternal language - one's native languagematernal language - one's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next
first language, mother tongue
natural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
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Major themes include the politics of sexual difference, maternal language, and maternal symbolism.
Another Mother: Diotima and the Symbolic Order of Italian Feminism
Predispositions to distinguish all the phonemic categories in the world are typically deactivated as age advances, and the specialized perception in maternal language is usually completed around the age of 9 (Hoonhorst et al., 2011).
Theories of Dyslexia: Support by Changes in Auditory Perception/Teorias da Dislexia: Sustentacao com Base nas Alteracoes Perceptuais Auditivas
Story comprehension at five years was best predicted by paternal education, maternal language, child gender, and child language development (24-months MacArthur-Bates CDI).
The effects of fathers' and mothers' reading to their children on language outcomes of children participating in early head start in the United States
In fact, the constant reference in this story is to my maternal language. I wrote this novel doubly: by imagining it taking place in Kirundi before transcribing the words into French.
The past prepares the future: a conversation with Burundian Novelist Roland Rugero
Now, Ramu is on a Telegu spree and has been tweeting non- stop in his maternal language.
RAMU GETS A KICK FROM RGV EXOTICA
Table 2 shows examples of maternal language characteristics and mean values from pre- and postsessions.
Effects of infant-parent play with a technology-enhanced toy: affordance-related actions and communicative interactions
She discusses changes in the meaning of the expression "maternal language" from its original conception as "illiterate variety" to its sixteenth-century notion as traditional local vernacular to be transmitted by the mother to the child.
Anna Laura Lepschy and Arturo Tosi, eds. Languages of Italy. Histories and Dictionaries
Research on speech segmentation has indicated that, when facing the problem of segmenting a novel speech stream, be it an unfamiliar or artificial language, the individuals use the patterns from their own maternal language and apply them to the new stimuli (Cutler et al, 1986; Johnson & Jusczyk, 2001; Sanders & Neville, 2000; Vroomen et al.
Posicion del acento y segmentacion de palabras en hablantes de Espanol
Early studies of child-addressed speech examined the nature of maternal language input to typically developing (TD) language-normal children (Broen, 1972; Snow, 1972).
Maternal speech to children with Down Syndrome: an update
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