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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"conventionality"”.
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Socio-cultural Conventionality and Children’s Selective Learning
Children’s rapid word learning skills has been the focus of many studies over the last three decades. These studies indicated that children are not only expert word learners, but they are also very selective when learning new words (Sabbagh & Henderson, 2013). Although many studies have shown …
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Young Children's Understanding of the Relationship Between Conventionality and Communication
… explores children's understanding of the conventionality of language, the notion that shared knowledge of the meanings of linguistic symbols enables communication using those symbols. Three studies investigate whether monolingual children recognize that different speakers share knowledge …
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Home-modification : a search for the American home amid a structure of conventionality
Since its origin in the postwar period the image and spatial structure surrounding the suburban house has perpetuated a singular notion of what house and family are. This postwar concept of what the average family and house are do not correspond to the multiple social groupings and life-styles …
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Length standards and the twin paradox in the special theory of relativity
… one reference frame to another. I emphasize the conventionality of definitions of length. I go on to argue that it is the imposition of clock synchronization-the conventionality of one-way speeds-and not the effects of acceleration which leads to the asymmetry of light speed observed in the …
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Design and evaluation of a method to reduce the lexical ambiguity of requirement specifications
… significantly reducing its correctness or conventionality. The thesis specifical1y focuses on lexical ambiguity, since this is the fom1 of ambiguity most attributable to the lexicon used to express the specification. 111e tem1 re-expression is used to di stinguish this approach from that of …
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A phenomenological assessment of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale
… of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale. Problems of conventionality, item ambiguity and asking the subjects to do difficult or impossible mental tasks were addressed through a standardized open-ended questionnaire. An interview guide was used to direct discussion on the content concerns of relevancy, …
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Classic Literature and Struggling Readers in Middle School Grades Five through Eight
… comprehension. Language features such as conventionality, vocabulary, sentence structure, and meaning complicate reading. The results also suggest that knowledge demands such as life experiences, intertextuality, and cultural knowledge complicate connecting to the text. Implications of …
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Do infants selectively imitate a transitive and an intransitive agent?
… of the model marked by group membership or conventionality of behaviors. Current study made use of 16-month-old infants' understanding of transitivity of choices among objects (i.e., if an agent chooses A>B, B>C, then A>C) and further explored whether the transitivity of an agents' choices …
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Perspectives on the reception of Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C, with particular reference to musicological writings in English on Haydn’s Concertos and the classical Concerto
… referring specifically to charges relating to conventionality, maturity, form, and virtuosity. Chapter 3 widens its scope to include literature on the Classical concerto, in order to show that the emphasis upon Mozart’s later concertos has distorted perspectives on concertos from the third …
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Social bonding and delinquency: a multivariate analysis
… delinquent activity is inversely related to the conventionality of .significant others; (e) females will experience greater levels of affective attachments, and conventional commitments, involvements, and beliefs than will males and also will be less involved in delinquent behavior than males; …
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Conscientiousness and the Transtheoretical Model of Change in Exercise: Integrating Trait and Social Cognitive Frameworks in the Prediction of Behavior
… of the conscientiousness-related traits of conventionality (e.g., traditional), decisiveness (e.g., consistent), industriousness (e.g., thorough), and reliability (e.g., dependable) were expected to show positive relations with measures of exercise behavior stage location, processes of …
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Rethinking Gricean and post-Gricean categories of meaning: Evidence from Sībawayhian and post-Sībawayhian pragmatics in the Arabic tradition
… (i) expanding the pragmatic source and nature of conventionality and contextuality; (ii) balancing out the intention-convention interface by emphasizing the explanatory role of conventions in inference-making and framing conventions as a part of rather than apart from context; and (iii) …
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Housing awareness, importance, preferences, and satisfaction of pre- and early-adolescent children in Appalachian Kentucky
… as unaffordable; yet, there is a continuing conventionality in American tastes, desires, and ideals of housing. In order to expand housing knowledge, and, perhaps to facilitate the use of housing alternatives, attitudes/perceptions of housing held by pre- and early-adolescent children were …
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Legitimacy and the Use of Natural Resources in Kruger National Park, South Africa
… dimensions including the morality, pragmatism, conventionality, and rationality of resource use. This study demonstrated that legitimacy is a multi-dimensional concept that, if explicitly evaluated, provides considerable insight into the governance and management of protected areas and may …
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Legitimacy and the Use of Natural Resources in Kruger National Park, South Africa
… dimensions including the morality, pragmatism, conventionality, and rationality of resource use. This study demonstrated that legitimacy is a multi-dimensional concept that, if explicitly evaluated, provides considerable insight into the governance and management of protected areas and may …
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Malevich’s Post-Suprematist Paintings and the Construction of History
… recent discourses of originality, the copy, and conventionality.</p>
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Children's Gestures from 18 to 30 Months
… of physical objects. Overall, the role of conventionality in children's gestures is underscored. The approach is (a) cognitive in the sense that it pays attention to the knowledge and bodily skills involved in the performance of the gestures, (b) social and interactive in the sense that it …
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The impact of learning context on the acquisition of sociopragmatic variation patterns in non-native speaker teachers of English
… strategic means – i.e. levels of directness and conventionality; however greater degrees of cross-contextuality give rise to the indexing of differential identities linguistically by means of speaker/hearer orientation and (non-) solidary moves. When it comes to the nature of identity enacted, it …
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Storytellers in fallen worlds: the metaphysical longings of crime fiction detectives
… foxes of traditional crime fiction, balancing conventionality with subversion, order with disorder, and fixed structures and familiar elements with the type of daunting voids inhabited by Beckett’s metaphysical narrators.<br/><br/>The thesis contains a critical component and a creative …
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Cultural Reaction Systems: An Orientational Unit of Analysis for Cultural Relations
The purpose of this dissertation is to begin construction of an orientational approach to studying cultural relations. Orientationalism can be considered a molar extension of J. R. Kantor's interbehavioral psychology that considers the orientations of organisms - described in terms of reaction …
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