Paul Fletcher

Biographic Data

ID96969
NAMEPaul Fletcher
GIVEN NAMESPaul
FAMILY NAMEFletcher
SIGNATUREFLETCHER P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity College Cork
ORCID0000-0001-8906-2280
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS48
AUTHOR COUNT44
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1965
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Social Workers and Gambling Harms? Evaluating an Initiative in Three English Local Authorities

    Open AccessCaroline Norrie, Cat Forward et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Work2026

    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

    Open AccessPauline Frizelle, Ana BUCKLEY et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2024

    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

    Open AccessCat Forward, Caroline Norrie et al.ARTICLEThe British Journal of Social Work2023References: 32

    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

    Paul Fletcher, Paul C FletcherARTICLEUrban Policy and Research2022

  • Early grammatical marking development in Mandarin-speaking toddlers

    Open AccessRuoyu Huang, Paul Fletcher et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2022

    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

    Open AccessAsifa Sultana, Stephanie Stokes et al.ARTICLEFirst Language2016

    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

    Open AccessPaul Fletcher, Paul C FletcherARTICLEJournal of Child Language2014

    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

    Open AccessCiara O’Toole, Paul Fletcher et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2012

    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

    Michael Browning, Paul Fletcher et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2011

    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

    Open AccessS de Wit, Paul Fletcher et al.ARTICLEAppetite2011

  • Validity of a Parent Report Instrument for Irish-speaking Toddlers

    Open AccessCiara O' Toole, Paul Fletcher et al.ARTICLEFirst Language2010

    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

    Open AccessTwila Tardif, Paul Fletcher et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2009

    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

    A Bradley, Paul FletcherARTICLEJournal for Cultural Research2009

  • Disciplining the divine

    Paul FletcherBOOKDisciplining the divine2009

    "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

    Stefano F Cappa, Stefano Cappa et al.BOOKCognitive neurology2008

    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

    Open AccessCatherine Mcbride-Chang, Catherine McBride‐Chang et al.ARTICLEApplied Psycholinguistics2008

    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

    Michael Dillon, Paul FletcherARTICLEJournal for Cultural Research2008

    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

    Twila Tardif, Paul Fletcher et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2008Cited by: 9References: 5

    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

    Paul FletcherARTICLEJournal for the Study of Religion…2004References: 2

    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

    Paul FletcherARTICLECambridge Review of International…2004Cited by: 3References: 3

    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

    Open AccessStephanie Stokes, Stephanie F Stokes et al.ARTICLELinguistics2003References: 12

    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

    Wai Ting Siok, Paul Fletcher et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2001Cited by: 34References: 61

    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

    Open AccessChris Frith, Paul Fletcher et al.ARTICLECritical Quarterly1995

  • Verb complementation in language-impaired school age children

    Open AccessGabrielle King, Paul Fletcher et al.ARTICLEFirst Language1994

  • Recent Publications on Statistics, Language Testing, and Quantitative Research Methods

    Liz Hamp-Lyons, LIZ HAMP‐LYONS et al.ARTICLETESOL Quarterly1989

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