metalinguistic

Examples

• All

• Metalinguistic knowledge involves the development of phonological awareness and syntactic awareness in young children.

  Academic text (2007)

• Indeed, the act of defining low-frequency, multimorphemic words appeared to be too challenging a metalinguistic task for the vast majority of third graders.

  Academic text (2015)

• Next, we discuss measures that are used to assess this metalinguistic ability.

  Academic text (2014)

• Finally, continued research is necessary to determine metalinguistic factors that contribute to performance on such a task.

  Academic text (2012)

• In the mental models framework, metalinguistic awareness is closely related to inference-making skills.

  Academic text (2013)

• Riddle appreciation, therefore, requires metalinguistic skill.

  Academic text (2013)

• Compared to oral language and metalinguistic development, literacy knowledge received a great deal of attention in the classrooms we observed.

  Academic text (2007)

• The task has low memory and executive-function demands and does not require metalinguistic decision-making.

  Academic text (2013)

• One study focused on nonlinguistic goals (prosody); others addressed metalinguistic goals.

  Academic text (2012)

• Oakhill, Yuill, and Donaldson (1990) showed that poor readers with weak inference-making skills also demonstrated deficient metalinguistic awareness.

  Academic text (2013)

Synonyms

S

self-referent

vsmetalinguistic

• Specialized

9.6

Referring back to itself, for example a sentence that talks about itself

focuses specifically on language discussing or analysing its own form or use

How Self-Referential

metalinguistic

• Specialized

9.5

linguistic

35 4.8

unreflective

1 7.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology