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  2. Phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    A phenomenon (pl.: phenomena), sometimes spelled phaenomenon, is an observable event. [1] The term came into its modern philosophical usage through Immanuel Kant , who contrasted it with the noumenon , which cannot be directly observed.

  3. Hikikomori - Wikipedia

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    The phenomenon is primarily recognized in Japan, although similar concepts exist in other languages and cultures, especially South Korea. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Estimates suggest that in Japan, half a million youths have become social recluses , [ 10 ] as well as more than half a million middle-aged individuals. [ 11 ]

  4. Errors in early word use - Wikipedia

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    Errors in early word use or developmental errors are mistakes that children commonly commit when first learning language. Language acquisition is an impressive cognitive achievement attained by humans. In the first few years of life, children already demonstrate general knowledge and understanding of basic patterns in their language.

  5. Glossary of language education terms - Wikipedia

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    In English-speaking countries, they have integrative motivation, the desire to learn the language to fit into an English-language culture. They are more likely to want to integrate because they 1. Generally have more friends and family with English language skills. 2. Have immediate financial and economic incentives to learn English. 3.

  6. Babbling - Wikipedia

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    These first forms of sound production are the easiest for children to use because they contain natural, reflexive, mostly vowel sounds. Babbling usually occurs in all children acquiring language. [4] Particularly it has been studied in English, [7] Italian, [8] [9] Korean, [10] French, [11] Spanish, [9] Japanese [11] and Swedish. [11]

  7. Fis phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    The fis phenomenon is a phenomenon during a child's language acquisition that demonstrates that perception of phonemes occurs earlier than a child's ability to produce the appropriate allophone. It is also illustrative of a larger theme in child language acquisition: that skills in linguistic comprehension generally precede corresponding skills ...

  8. Xenoglossy - Wikipedia

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    French parapsychologist Charles Richet coined the term xenoglossy in 1905.. Xenoglossy (/ ˌ z iː n ə ˈ ɡ l ɒ s i, ˌ z ɛ-,-n oʊ-/), [1] also written xenoglossia (/ ˌ z iː n ə ˈ ɡ l ɒ s i ə, ˌ z ɛ-,-n oʊ-/) [2] [3] and sometimes also known as xenolalia, is the supposedly paranormal phenomenon in which a person is allegedly able to speak, write or understand a foreign language ...

  9. Phonological development - Wikipedia

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    Of course, the reason why children need to learn the sound distinctions of their language is because then they also have to learn the meaning associated with those different sounds. Young children have a remarkable ability to learn meanings for the words they extract from the speech they are exposed to, i.e., to map meaning onto the sounds.