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Showing 1 to 20 of 176 for “"Idiom"”.
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Idiom Comprehension In Bilingual And Monolingual Adolescents
… A positive relationship appears to exist between idiom comprehension and academic achievement, as well as idiom comprehension and reading comprehension, in typically developing, monolingual adolescents. Since reading comprehension and idiom comprehension share many of the same linguistic …
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Billie's Message: An original dance-drama in the modern dance idiom
Billie's Message is a forty-five minute dance drama expressing through dance and narrative the life of Billie Holiday and the consequences of drug abuse in Holiday's life. It was created in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Education (MEd) degree. The project was presented …
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Hemisphere differences in idiom comprehension: The influence of ambiguity, transparancy, and familiarity
Idioms are verb phrases that must be interpreted figuratively, such as "to bury the hatchet" (Gibbs, 1999). Recent finding suggest that the right hemisphere may have an advantage when readers comprehend language that must be understood figuratively (McDonald, 200). However, it is currently unclear …
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Chinese instruments in a western contemporary idiom selected works of Chen Yi
The purpose of this study is to show composer Chen Yi (b.1953)’s musical synthesis of East and West. Examples and analysis are made from the following selected pieces: Fiddle Suite, The Points, Ancient Dances, Ning, Song in Winter, Chinese Fables and Ancient Beauty, which all contain Chinese …
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Addressing idiom avoidance in culturally and linguistically diverse students through biography-driven instruction
… strategies on the linguistic phenomenon of idiom avoidance and a discretionary strategy of idiom use employed by Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) students. The review of the literature on linguistic avoidance behavior revealed that this topic was not widely researched. Less so …
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The Sacred Music of Antonio Lotti: Idiom and Influence of a Venetian Master
… were written can be identified. It documents idiomatic patterns in his compositions, in terms of structure, scoring, rhythmic, melodic and harmonic devices and the reuse of material. Having identified key components of Lotti’s style, it argues that the attribution of some works to Lotti is …
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Assessing pragmatic language in children through a brief assessment of idiom comprehension: a pilot study
… children) by using a newly formed Test of Idioms. The total number of participants who participated in the study was 36 with 18 participants in each group (i.e., clinical and nonclinical). Each participant in the study was given a series of 25 idiom phrases and was asked to identify what …
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Use Your Head to Get the Picture: an Investigation of Working Memory and Idiom Processing
… working memory affects how participants process idiomatic expressions. In Experiment 1, participants read idiomatic, literal and nonsense sentences at an experimenter controlled rate then judged whether or not the sentence made sense. In Experiment 2, participants read idiomatic and literal …
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Questions of sculptural idiom in the later bosses from Norwich Cathedral cloister (c.1411-1430)
This thesis focusses on the sculptural vault bosses from Norwich Cathedral cloister, particularly those of the later campaigns (c.1411-1430). This substantial series of bosses has long been acknowledged to be noteworthy, but, whilst the they have been subjected to iconographical, archaeological, …
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A Grammar of the Idiom: Theory Development and Its Application to Old French and Old West Germanic
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An Interpretative Analysis of a Selected List of Choral Music in the Contemporary Idiom for Senior High School
… to what degree music in the contemporary idiom is used in the senior high schools of the State of Washington, (2) to determine how receptive high school choral directors, high school choral members, and the listening public are to this music, and (3) to analyze phenomena peculiar to music …
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A critical discussion of the twelve-tonal idiom of Anton Webern and criticism of its assessmant by some natable theorists
Webern took over from Schoenberg, and others, and elevated the art of music to an auditory mathernatics. "It is given only to powerful spirits to travel this razor edge. Lesser ones 1 ack the requisite inner certainty. Indeed Webern never pandered to popular taste. iii Every tone he wrote was …
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A critical discussion of the twelve-tonal idiom of Anton Webern and criticism of its assessmant by some natable theorists
Webern took over from Schoenberg, and others, and elevated the art of music to an auditory mathernatics. "It is given only to powerful spirits to travel this razor edge. Lesser ones 1 ack the requisite inner certainty. Indeed Webern never pandered to popular taste. iii Every tone he wrote was …
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A critical discussion of the twelve-tonal idiom of Anton Webern and criticism of its assessmant by some natable theorists
Webern took over from Schoenberg, and others, and elevated the art of music to an auditory mathernatics. "It is given only to powerful spirits to travel this razor edge. Lesser ones 1 ack the requisite inner certainty. Indeed Webern never pandered to popular taste. iii Every tone he wrote was …
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The Development of a Violinistic Idiom in Early Violin Music: Violin Music and its Composers in the Early 17th Century in Italy
… emergence, development, and use of violinistic idioms within written violin music in Italy from the end of the 16th century to the mid-17th century. The aim of this study is to render a concise and integrated narrative of how the Italian violinist composers in early and middle 17th century …
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Procesamiento modismos: Un enfoque psicopragmático
… work offers a psycho-pragmatic approach to idiom processing that has enough flexibility to be able to account for any idiom, regardless of their nature. In order to achieve it, two different views of modeling idiom processing have been combined: the Idiom Decomposition Hypothesis , proposed …
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