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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"language communities"”.
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A study of the historical and linguistic factors that shaped Modern Spanish
… analysis is concerned with how exposure to other language communities, including those speaking substrate languages of former times, as well as other social contexts including ruling social communities has influenced the changes which emerged in the shape of present-day Spanish. However, the …
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Han’gŭlization and romanization: two models of script change
Script change is a branch of language planning and language policy. To assist language planners and policy makers with their endeavors, I have performed a Qualitative Research Synthesis to determine if the Han’gŭlization of Korean and the Romanization of Turkish are two distinct models of script …
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Exploring Perspectives on Landscape and Language among Kaike Speakers in Dolpa, Nepal
The majority of the world’s languages are in danger of extinction within this century. Of the more than 6000 languages in the world, 4000-5000 are spoken by Indigenous peoples. Accompanying the loss of languages is the loss of the capacity for these peoples to transmit those aspects of their …
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Exploring Perspectives on Landscape and Language among Kaike Speakers in Dolpa, Nepal
The majority of the world’s languages are in danger of extinction within this century. Of the more than 6000 languages in the world, 4000-5000 are spoken by Indigenous peoples. Accompanying the loss of languages is the loss of the capacity for these peoples to transmit those aspects of their …
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Automated Adaptation Between Kiranti Languages
… Linguistics Automated Adaptation Between Kiranti Languages Chairperson: Dr. Anthony Mattina Minority language communities that are seeking to develop their language may be hampered by a lack of vernacular materials. Large volumes of such materials may be available in a related language. Automated …
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Automated Adaptation Between Kiranti Languages
… Linguistics Automated Adaptation Between Kiranti Languages Chairperson: Dr. Anthony Mattina Minority language communities that are seeking to develop their language may be hampered by a lack of vernacular materials. Large volumes of such materials may be available in a related language. Automated …
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On the Ethics and Linguistic Impacts of Using the Bible as Training Data for Yucatec Maya-to-Spanish Machine Translation
… digitized parallel corpora available for many languages. However, this practice raises both linguistic and ethical concerns, particularly for Indigenous language communities for whom Bible translation has historically been intertwined with colonialism and cultural erasure. This thesis …
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The Spoken British National Corpus 2014 : design, compilation and analysis
… at Lancaster University (CASS) and the English Language Teaching group at Cambridge University Press (CUP) have compiled a new, publicly-accessible corpus of spoken British English from the 2010s, known as the Spoken British National Corpus 2014 (Spoken BNC2014). The 11.5 million-word corpus, …
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Discourses of language acquisition and identity in the life histories of four white South African men, fluent in isiXhosa
… 1976; Weedon, 1997) is used to explore language acquisition and identity construction in the life histories of four multilingual white South African men, who became fluent in the African language of isiXhosa in the racially-divided world of Apartheid South Africa, at a time when law and …
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Multilingual Language Acquisition in Arabic-English Speaking Families: The Role of Parent Sex and Parent Education in Caregiver Report of Children’s Language Skills
… clinical research literature focusing on English language acquisition is generally based on a model that presumes that the oral language a child acquires at home without formal instruction is the same language that is used for reading and writing. Arabic presents a qualitatively different …
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Major Gifts to The Seed Company : Who Gives Them and Why
… translation projects for hundreds of minority language communities, depends upon major donor support for its success and growth. There is a dearth of research available regarding philanthropic characteristics of major donors within The Seed Company resulting in a significant knowledge gap for …
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"Welshness politicized, Welshness submerged: the politics of ""politics"" and the pragmatics of language community in north-west Wales"
… the normative construction of a politics of language and community in north-west Wales (United Kingdom). It is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted primarily between January 2007 and April 2008, with central participant-observation settings in primary-level state schools and in the …
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Mā te hangarau te oranga o te reo Māori e tautoko ai? Can technology support the long-term health of the Māori language?
… to support the ongoing health of an endangered language? Since the late twentieth century unprecedented and substantial social changes have been propelled by advances in contemporary technologies. Continuous connectivity harnessing digital communication, mass media and social networking has …