phonological cue

collocation in English

meaningsofphonologicalandcue

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phonological
adjective
uk
/ˌfɒn.əˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/
us
/ˌfoʊ.nəˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
relating to the sounds in a particular language or in languages, or to the study ...
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cue
noun[C]
uk
/kjuː/
us
/kjuː/
a word or action in a play or film that is used as a signal by a performer to begin saying or ...
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(Definition ofphonologicalandcuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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However, when there is no reliablephonologicalcue, dyslexic children easily confuse newly learned words with other words with homophonic characters in the mental lexicon.
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It is perhaps more appropriate to describe these final vowels as phonological cues, an issue to which we return.
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They remark that neither the availability of phonological cues nor the existence of homonymy among forms affected the learning of the paradigms.
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The importance of prosodic and phonological cues in word discovery is further questioned by recent experimental studies showing that these cues are not necessary.
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He manipulated the semantic and phonological cues provided in order to identify which were more salient.
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However, as indicated below, we found some evidence for the role of phonological cues influencing the distribution of these errors.
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Given the lack of straightforward phonological cues to gender for the irregular nouns, we expected to see lower performance on these than for regular nouns.
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The distribution of sentence position, phonological cues, and marker elements may give learners the ability to segregate nouns into different groups than verbs or adjectives.
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Phonological cues to the gender of nouns are restricted to the last phoneme or phoneme cluster and are unreliable.
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In addition to the difficulties inherent in their exploitation, prosodic and phonological cues in any case provide only probabilistic information.
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If neither semantics nor morphology provide easy routes perhaps children can make use of phonological cues.
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The words also varied with respect to their endings, thus providing different phonological cues.
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Similarly, phonological cues which help distinguish or identify the verb classes may be of importance.
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This pattern of results suggests that even when presented with novel items, the network has learned very early on to identify the phonological cues which mark gender in regular nouns.
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This approach incorporates targeted speech production practice into phonological awareness activities and uses letters and phonological cues to prompt speech production.
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