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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Language, General"”.
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Use of Oral Language General Outcome Measures to Describe Children According to Language Status
… purpose of the study was to determine if short language samples can effectively distinguish children with language impairments from those who are typically developing. Four elicitation methods (individual picture descriptions, multi-scene picture description, narrative, and interview) were …
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Models for Estimating Psychiatric Bed Needs
… simulation model using IBM's programming language General Purpose Simulation System (GPSS) was developed and was found to be unsatisfactory.</p> <p>Theorems were then developed for a statistical model, seeking to predict future bed needs. The most convenient of these theorems states that …
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Discourse in Eugene Nida's translation theory.
… the evolution of Nida's translation theory in general. Our secondary objectives include showing the influences of discourse-based linguistics on his writings, and highlighting the similarities and differences between Nida's writing on discourse and a number of other scholars' discourse-based …
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From student translator to professional: Transition from university to the workplace.
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'Equivocity' and Metaphorical Meaning
… of linguistic meaning begins by surveying general problems clustered around the phenomenon known as metaphor. Theories of metaphor are classified as Authoritarian, Anarchist or Middle Ground theories, and these theoretical groupings are examined in terms of their characteristic features and …
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Lexical Representation and Processing in Second Language Learners
While research on monolingual language production and processing has led to the positing of different levels of lexical representation, investigations of the bilingual lexicon have mainly focused on the relationship between the two languages. To explore whether the L2 learner develops an L2 …
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Pragmatic Competence and Transferability: Native and Non-Native Speakers of Portuguese
… as well as length of residence in a second language environment proved major factors contributing to her/his choices of discourse strategies in the L2. Data suggested that contact with a second language and community also influences the speaker's attitude and linguistic choices in …
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The Effect of Community Context on Intergenerational Spanish Maintenance and English Proficiency Among Latina and Latino Children
… of household and community context that affect language use. The results imply that children of immigrants are following multiple paths to language adaptation, and that metropolitan context is an important influence on this process of adaptation.
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Native Speakers' Reactions to Non -Native Stress in English Discourse
… results provide some evidence supporting the general hypothesis that native speakers process, understand, and respond more positively to non-native English speech when primary stress is used correctly compared to when it is not. Practical implications include suggestions for incorporating the …
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Linnaeus on Intoxicants: Pharmacology, Sobriety and Latinity in Eighteenth-Century Sweden
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Social variation and change in honorific usage among Korean adults in an urban setting
The present study examined social variation and change in honorific usage in Korean among 158 subjects in Pusan, Korea. The main goal of the study was to delineate the relative importance of social variables governing the choice of speech levels and kinship terms in personal interaction, and to …
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Language Typology and Sentence Frame Effects on Motion Verb Interpretation in Grade Schoolers
… been found to rely somewhat more on the overall language pattern, or typology (Hohenstein et al., 2004; Naigles & Terrazas, 1998). Grade schoolers have not been examined in this paradigm, and their linguistic abilities suggest that they may show an important part of a developmental trajectory …
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In the Event of Words: Art, Technology, and Language in the Later Heidegger
For Heidegger, questioning technology is of the utmost difficulty. The questioning runs into danger if it addresses technology in terms of a problem to be solved, for this orders the questioning solely within the framework of that orientation which was to be set into question. The kind of …
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"Travestis politiques": The gay value of Michel Tremblay's dramatic work in translation
Michel Tremblay often denies that he writes about gayness, despite frequent themes of sexual difference in his plays. In Hosanna , for example, he has suggested that the gay content is a metaphor for Quebec's aspirations to independence. In other plays, such as Les anciennes odeurs and Messe …
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Gender and number agreement processing in Spanish
… are more compatible with a modular model of language production, as well as with a feature copying account of agreement implementation.
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Alternate theoretical perspectives on the literacy documents of a teenage mother
This is a study, over time, of a teenage unwed mother. Narrow concepts of agency have historically been part of a stigmatizing view of teenage pregnancy defined in terms of adolescent sexual activity and welfare dependence. In understanding her situation the study examines the concept of agency in …
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The identification of differences in patterns of content and functional organization of expressive, conventional and rhetorical messages in three message genres
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Segmentation of Manually Coded English: Problems in the mapping of English in the visual/gestural mode
… (MCE) and whether the structure of a spoken language can be effectively translated literally, morpheme for morpheme, into a signed language. Moreover, it investigates whether there are further structural constraints specific to signed languages which create restrictions in their typology and …
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Technotropes of liberation: Reading hypertext in the age of theory
This dissertation examines hypertext computer technology and computer writing practices in relation to contemporary critical theories of postmodernism, writing and response and feminism. Hypertext, a powerful computer technology, allows the non-linear linking of texts and information into a …
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