Paul Fletcher
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 96969 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Paul Fletcher |
| NOMBRES | Paul |
| APELLIDO | Fletcher |
| FIRMA | FLETCHER P |
| AFILIACIONES | University College Cork |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8906-2280 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1965 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Social Workers and Gambling Harms? Evaluating an Initiative in Three English Local Authorities
We report on the evaluation phase of a study which developed questions to identify people who were affected by gambling harms for use in adult social care services and piloted them in three English local authorities. The questions were designed to identify those affected by gambling harms, including family or friends of those who gamble. The evaluation involved interviews with staff and service users ( n = 28) assessing the acceptability, feasibi…
How reliable is assessment of children’s sentence comprehension using a self-directed app? A comparison of supported versus independent use
This study reports on the feasibility of using the Test of Complex Syntax- Electronic (TECS-E), as a self-directed app, to measure sentence comprehension in children aged 4 to 5 1⁄2 years old; how testing apps might be adapted for effective independent use; and agreement levels between face-to-face supported computerized and independent computerized testing with this cohort. A pilot phase was completed with 4 to 4;06-year-old children, to determi…
Gambling Harms in Adult Social Care
Gambling harms are disproportionately experienced among disadvantaged groups and as such, adult social care (ASC) practitioners are well-placed to identify and support affected individuals. There exists no evidence-based ‘introductory’ question for practitioners to identify those at risk of gambling harms, which includes family and friends (‘affected others’). To develop an ‘introductory’ question for use in English ASC, we conducted a scoping re…
National Urban Policy – Liberal Party of Australia Statement
Early grammatical marking development in Mandarin-speaking toddlers
The current study examined early grammatical marking in a relatively understudied language, Mandarin, by using the Mandarin version of MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory. Two waves of data collection included 338 monolingual children (17-36 months; 143 female) at Time 1 and 308 children (32-55 months; 139 female) at Time 2 and their caregivers, whose education ranged from third grade (elementary school) or below to postgraduate w…
Morphosyntactic development of Bangla-speaking preschool children
This study examines the morphosyntactic development, specifically verb morphology, of typically-developing Bangla-speaking children between the ages of two and four. Three verb forms were studied: the Present Simple, the Present Progressive and the Past Progressive. The study was motivated by the observations that reliable language-specific developmental information is not available in Bangla and that properties of these verb forms render them su…
Data and beyond
Perusing early issues of this Journal from nearly forty years ago, we find many topics on the contents lists that could appear in a current issue. But the resources available to contributors for addressing questions of interest have changed dramatically, not least in the public availability of data. Here we look briefly at two assets which have accrued to the field in the intervening decades, and at the contributions they make. CHILDES provides a…
Profiling vocabulary acquisition in Irish
Investigations into early vocabulary development, including the timing of the acquisition of nouns, verbs and closed-class words, have produced conflicting results, both within and across languages. Studying vocabulary development in Irish can contribute to this area, as it has potentially informative features such as a VSO word order, and semantically rich prepositions. This study used a parent report adapted for Irish, to measure vocabulary dev…
Can Neuroimaging Help Us to Understand and Classify Somatoform Disorders? A Systematic and Critical Review
Objective: Debate about the nature of somatoform disorders and their current diagnostic classification has been stimulated by the anticipation of new editions of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems diagnostic classifications. In the current paper, we review systematically the literature on the neuroimaging of somatoform disorders and related con…
An associative analysis of external influences on food-seeking
Validity of a Parent Report Instrument for Irish-speaking Toddlers
Previous research has demonstrated the validity of parent report as an assessment of early vocabulary and grammatical development across a range of languages.This study adapted a well-known tool, the MacArthur—Bates Communicative Development Inventories (MCDI), to Irish (ICDI), in order to measure vocabulary and grammatical development longitudinally across a sample of 21 children. Results from the parent checklists were validated against spontan…
Early vocabulary development in Mandarin (Putonghua) and Cantonese
Parent report instruments adapted from the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) examined vocabulary development in children aged 0 ; 8 to 2 ; 6 for two Chinese languages, Mandarin ( n =1694) and Cantonese ( n =1625). Parental reports suggested higher overall scores for Mandarin- than for Cantonese-speaking children from approximately 1 ; 4 onward. Factors relevant to the difference were only-child status, monolingual househ…
Introduction
Disciplining the divine
"Disciplining the Divine offers the first comprehensive treatment of the Social Model of the Trinity, exploring its central place within much theological discourse of the past half century, including its relation to wider cultural and political concerns. The book highlights the manner in which theologians have attempted to make the doctrine of God relevant to modern issues and outlooks and it charts the conditions that have necessitated such a re…
Cognitive NeurologyA clinical textbook
The study of patients affected by disorders of the central nervous system is one of the crucial research methods for investigating the organization of cognitive functions in the brain. However, many clinicians remain unaware of the significant advances that have taken place in the field of cognitive neuroscience in the last decades. This book provides an introduction to the cognitive and behavioural aspects of the clinical practice of neurology. …
What's in a word? Morphological awareness and vocabulary knowledge in three languages
Understanding how words are created is potentially a key component to being able to learn and understand new vocabulary words. However, research on morphological awareness is relatively rare. In this study, over 660 preschool-aged children from three language groups (Cantonese, Mandarin, and Korean speakers) in which compounding morphology is highly prevalent were tested on their abilities to manipulate familiar morphemes to create novel compound…
Real Time
This article broaches a critique of the modern understanding of time, and of how it underwrites the modern account of politics, via an interrogation of the way modern “real time” figures death. Comparing and contrasting different accounts of time and politics, from Plato through Augustine to Kant, the article explores how modern politics is a politics of permanent emergency premised upon the immediacy of real time and its spurious attempt to effa…
Baby's first 10 words
Although there has been much debate over the content of children's first words, few large sample studies address this question for children at the very earliest stages of word learning. The authors report data from comparable samples of 265 English-, 336 Putonghua- (Mandarin), and 369 Cantonese-speaking 8- to 16-month-old infants whose caregivers completed MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories and reported them to produce between …
The Nature of Redemption
This article enacts a critical engagement with Romantic tendencies in theological analyses of nature before moving on to assess the transformation of conceptions of life in the light of its codification and digitalisation. The piece concludes with a theological-political rejoinder predicated on the nature of messianic expectation
The political theology of the empire to come
This article considers the character and substance of the war on terror and the global security paradigm in the light of political theology and its pivotal place in the constitution of modern liberal politics. The argument is that global liberal governance is predicated on a sacralised temporality, the historicisation of eschatology, and this claim is developed in the light of the juridical–political logic of states of emergency
Aspect markers in Cantonese-speaking children with specific language impairment
Recent accounts of morphological deficits in children with specific language impairment contrast grammar-deficit explanations, for difficulties these children have with finite verb morphology, with accounts that appeal to processing limitations. Cross-linguistic evaluations of these accounts have \nnot to date involved isolating languages. Here we investigate the use of verb affixes by children speaking Cantonese. Despite their lack of inflection…
The role of phonological awareness and visual-orthographic skills in Chinese reading acquisition
This study examined the role of phonological awareness and visual-orthographic skills in Chinese reading acquisition. The subjects were 154 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th graders in Beijing who had learned an alphabetic script known as Hanyu Pinyin to help read Chinese characters. Children's performance on tests of various cognitive skills, reading ability, and pinyin knowledge were examined. Results of hierarchical regression analyses showed that (a) vi…
Voices from nowhere
Verb complementation in language-impaired school age children
Recent Publications on Statistics, Language Testing, and Quantitative Research Methods
Peer Reviewed
The role of phonological awareness and visual-orthographic skills in Chinese reading acquisition
This study examined the role of phonological awareness and visual-orthographic skills in Chinese reading acquisition. The subjects were 154 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th graders in Beijing who had learned an alphabetic script known as Hanyu Pinyin to help read Chinese characters. Children's performance on tests of various cognitive skills, reading ability, and pinyin knowledge were examined. Results of hierarchical regression analyses showed that (a) vi…
Baby's first 10 words
Although there has been much debate over the content of children's first words, few large sample studies address this question for children at the very earliest stages of word learning. The authors report data from comparable samples of 265 English-, 336 Putonghua- (Mandarin), and 369 Cantonese-speaking 8- to 16-month-old infants whose caregivers completed MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories and reported them to produce between …
The political theology of the empire to come
This article considers the character and substance of the war on terror and the global security paradigm in the light of political theology and its pivotal place in the constitution of modern liberal politics. The argument is that global liberal governance is predicated on a sacralised temporality, the historicisation of eschatology, and this claim is developed in the light of the juridical–political logic of states of emergency
Case grammar
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Description and explanation in the acquisition of verb-forms
Research on the learning of verb-forms in English has consistently reported the late acquisition of the PRESENT PERFECT. Explanations for this have been in terms of children's cognitive abilities. Difficulties are presented for such explanations by an apparent discrepancy between American English (AE) and British English (BE) acquisition data. This paper examines in detail the forms included in the PRESENT PERFECT paradigm, and the use of these a…
Language Acquisition
Characterizing language impairment in children
This study compares expressive language samples from normal children ( n = 20) and language impaired children ( n = 9), matched for age and intellectual capacity, across a range of grammatical and lexical dimensions. The aims of the inquiry are to determine if it is possible to characterize language impairment (so far as it pertains to the carefully selected group of children in this study) using such dimensions, and in particular to see if the i…
Clarification and the child's learning of grammar
Language Acquisition
The aim of the first edition of Language Acquisition was to provide as comprehensive a description and explanation as possible of the changes in the child's language as he or she grows older. In this second edition Paul Fletcher and Michael Garman have the same fundamental aim. Six years later the field has not changed dramatically, but there have been fruitful theoretical developments - the learnability hypothesis, in particular, has been influe…
Indices of normal language development and some characteristics of specific language impairment
Transcription and computer analysis of child language
A Child's Learning of English
Theories of language acquisition have offered varying accounts of how a child learns its native language. This book describes that process in detail, relating theories of language development to data drawn from one child's conversational progress between the ages of two and four
Statistics in Language Studies
Recent Publications on Statistics, Language Testing, and Quantitative Research Methods
Peer Reviewed
Verb complementation in language-impaired school age children
Voices from nowhere
The role of phonological awareness and visual-orthographic skills in Chinese reading acquisition
This study examined the role of phonological awareness and visual-orthographic skills in Chinese reading acquisition. The subjects were 154 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th graders in Beijing who had learned an alphabetic script known as Hanyu Pinyin to help read Chinese characters. Children's performance on tests of various cognitive skills, reading ability, and pinyin knowledge were examined. Results of hierarchical regression analyses showed that (a) vi…
Aspect markers in Cantonese-speaking children with specific language impairment
Recent accounts of morphological deficits in children with specific language impairment contrast grammar-deficit explanations, for difficulties these children have with finite verb morphology, with accounts that appeal to processing limitations. Cross-linguistic evaluations of these accounts have \nnot to date involved isolating languages. Here we investigate the use of verb affixes by children speaking Cantonese. Despite their lack of inflection…
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