Center for Applied Linguistics

Expanding the boundaries of linguistic reasoning in L1 education

Linguistic understanding is increasingly recognized as valuable in L1 education in its own right, not merely as a means to improve literacy. Research on linguistic reasoning, which combines general reasoning skills with subject-specific ways of thinking about language, has begun...

Impact of Voice Onset Time on Phoneme Perception and Implications for a Language-Agnostic Hearing Assessment

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of native language on phoneme perception in normal-hearing (NH) adults representing the three most commonly spoken languages in the United States (English, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese). Method: A prospective cross-sectio...

Transforming management processes: advertising research

Purpose The main goal of the study was to examine the adaptive potential of the transformative advertising research (TAR) concept at its selected levels, which would help to better understand the transformation processes of advertising in the current dynamic advertising ecosystem...

Incidental vocabulary learning through reading in multilingual primary school Children: The Roles of reading Comprehension, contextual Diversity, and contextual informativeness

Incidental word learning through reading plays a central role in vocabulary development. Multilingual children, for whom English is an additional language, bring relevant language-learning experience to the task of learning new words through reading in English. However, it is not...

Defining Language Profiles in Young Autistic Children Across Verbal, Speaking, and Generative Dimensions

Language trajectories in autism are highly heterogeneous and cannot be captured by unidimensional classifications. Research and clinical practice often rely on verbal/non-verbal or speaking/non-speaking labels, but these categories, when used in isolation, obscure distinct lingui...

Multimodal pragmatic assessment in healthy aging: The interplay with Executive Functioning, Theory of Mind and Cognitive Reserve

Pragmatic competence is crucial for effective social interaction and well-being, and yet it tends to decline with age. While most research has focused on basic linguistic skills, the multimodal nature of communication and the cognitive processes that support it have often been ov...