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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Russian language"”.
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Adaptation of the BIAS R to Russian language and piloting validation studies
#### Motivation The Russian-speaking population in Germany increased in the past 40 years. In Germany, no standardised diagnostic tool for aphasia is currently available to assess Russian-speaking people suffering from late acute and early post-acute aphasia. In most cases, this group of people can …
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Predictors of acquisition of Russian language listening skills by army intelligence specialists
… 2000 soldiers on active duty trained to be Russian linguists for duties as intelligence specialists. To maintain this group, 1100 to 1300 candidates are sent annually to the Defense Language Institute (DLI) in Monterey, California, for an intensive 47 week basic Russian language course. …
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Political Memes as Tools of Dissent and Alternative Digital Activism in the Russian-language Twitter
… the role of Internet memes in the contemporary Russian alternative discourse. It has identified memes as the Internet common language that users exploit to communicate on all topics and also utilise as the mind-bombs to influence the political discourse. This project focused on the employment of …
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The Effect of Second Language Instruction on Acquisition of Relative Clauses in the Russian Language
… (Keenan & Comrie, 1977) applying it to the Russian language. According to this theory, relative clauses (RC) are acquired in a fixed unidirectional order: from subject (S) - the highest (unmarked) and more susceptible to relativization position - to object of comparative (OCOM) - the lowest …
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The Development of Pragmatic Competence and Perception of Requests by American Learners of the Russian Language
… by adult American English speaking learners of Russian (NNS) to that of native speakers of Russian and native speakers of English to identify the similarities and differences between native and non-native speakers’ request realization patterns. Speech production is investigated in conjunction …
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The Rise of Insider Iconography: Visions of Soviet Turkmenia in Russian-Language Literature and Film, 1921-1935
… Turkmenia more specifically were represented in Russian-language film and literature in the early Soviet period. By analyzing the work of writers and filmmakers as well as the ideological and artistic constraints that they faced, I explore not only depictions of these spaces, but also the …
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Lietuvos gyventojų kalbinės nuostatos rusų kalbos atžvilgiu /
… Attitudes of Lithuanian People towards the Russian Language". The research aims are to determine the linguistic attitudes of Lithuanians towards the Russian language, how these attitudes have (not) changed since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, and what impact the political context has …
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Language of the Enemy: Impacts of the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War on Linguistic and National Identity Paradigms in Ukraine
… evolved over the course of centuries of Russian subjugation of ethnic Ukrainians through imperial control, cultural erasure, and linguistic russification and standardization. This master’s thesis examines the oppositional complexes that have long defined conceptions of Ukrainian …
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Reform of Secondary Education in Post-Communist Estonia: Advancing or Dismantling Social Cohesion
… Over 25% of the population of Estonia speaks Russian as their mother tongue, and currently the youth of these Russian-speaking communities are feeling the weight of the integration process. Education reform has been put in place in Russian-language schools so that the students will speak …
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The Effect of Hyperarticulation on the Perception of Palatalization in Russian by L1 American English Speakers
… of a feature of secondary palatalization in Russian and a speech condition (casual and hyperarticulated). Forty-one L1 American English speakers – the students of the Russian program at The University of Mississippi – took part in two experiments. In addition, the research aimed to explore …
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Case and Copular Sentences in Heritage Speakers of Russian
This thesis investigates the language abilities of heritage speakers of Russian (those who learned Russian at home, but later switched to English as their primary language, such as children of immigrants) regarding predicate case alternation in copular sentences. In Russian, predicates of copular …
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Protutor : a pronunciation tutor that uses historic open learner models
Second language learners face many challenges when learning a new language. To determine which challenges learners needed additional support in overcoming, we conducted a needs assessment of the Russian language program at the University of Saskatchewan and found that their students needed the most …
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The Eurasian Agenda: The International Relations of Kyrgyzstan
… of Eurasianism. As a counterpoint to the Russian influence, I also chronicle the relations between Kyrgyzstan and the U.S. and the mechanisms of the "soft power" used by the latter. I consult the relevant academic literature in both English and Russian language in order to be able to …
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Sport, Kul’turnost, and Physical Culture in the Khrushchev Era Soviet Union, 1953-1964
… of visual and text-based primary sources from Russian-language magazines and poster campaigns were analyzed for their tone, content, and cultural signifiers. The sources yielded a view of Soviet society in which the government under Khrushchev was actively attempting to create a socialist …
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Negotiation of meaning and comprehension in audio and videoconferencing: A mixed methods study
… and videoconferencing on intermediate-level Russian language learners’ interaction with a native speaker, specifically in the context of 1) negotiation of meaning, 2) rates of comprehension, and 3) learners’ perceptions of interaction. The research is grounded in the theoretical framework of …
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“Renovating” Moscow’s Soviet-era Standardised Housing: The Creation and Destruction of Anachronistic Space
… insights through interviews with stakeholders, Russian-language media analyses, and extended ethnographic research among local residents in a soon-to-be-demolished *khrushchevka* neighbourhood in Moscow's Northern Izmailovo district in 2019. My research has uncovered the highly-localised …
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Overcoming loneliness: first-generation Slavic immigrants' experience with loneliness in the Inland Northwest
… identity. Future quantitative research and Russian language proficiency are needed to better understand first-generation Slavic immigrant loneliness among first-generation Slavic Christians and non-Christian populations.</p>
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Triadic Music in Twentieth-Century Russia
<p>Twentieth-century Russian music exhibits a diversity of approaches to triadic composition. Triads appear in harmonic contexts that range from tonal to atonal, as well as in referential contexts where triadic music evokes historical styles. Theorists in Russia have approached this repertoire from …
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Элементы яркой разговорной речи в прозе В. Шукшина
Russian language MPhil thesis; English title, "Elements of vivid colloquial speech in V. Shukshin's prose". [Also includes 16 page English language summary, first three paragraphs below]: Russian is one of the richest and most distinctive languages in the world. This is the result of its …
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