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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"language research"”.
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A parameters approach to second language research: Testing a directionality prediction of the null subject parameter
… 1986) to predict what the influence of the first language (L1) is on the acquisition of linguistic competence in a second language (L2). Present linguistic theory claims that differences in languages can be captured by a small number of principles and parameters. Parameters are principles which …
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Gender in Natural Conversation and Literary Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study
… are argued to have significance for gender and language research, and particularly for the models used to explain the basis of gender-based language differences. I show unlike the DOMINANCE and CULTURAL DIFFERENCE models, only the SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONIST model fully accounts for my results.
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Comprehension and recall of figurative language by nonnative speakers of English
… to extend some of the findings in figurative language research over the past 10-15 years to a population not often tested in this area before, nonnative speakers of English. Most metaphor researchers in psycholinguistics have come to believe that nonliteral language is a vital component of …
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Cognitive and communicative pressures in natural language
Why do languages have the words they do instead of some other set of words? In the first part of this thesis, I argue that cognitive and communicative demands strongly influence the structure of the lexicons of natural languages. It is known that words in natural language are distributed such that …
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Temperament-Language Relationships during the First Formal Year of School.
… the current study was to investigate temperament-language relationships among school-age children and across a wider variety of SES. Head Start, Pre-K, and Kindergarten classes of 10 elementary schools located in rural Appalachia were sent information about the study and 35 children were consented …
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Development of Tongan Materials for Determining Speech Recognition Thresholds
… recorded, and standardized materials exist in languages other than English, which results in audiologists testing individuals using materials developed in a non-native language. Research shows that this is problematic, as certain criterion for SRT testing are not met. Thus, performance may …
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'Bridging discourses' in a bilingual South African mathematics classroom with a collaborative teaching model
… learners have to access a curriculum in a language which is not their home language. Research has been conducted into several aspects of the challenge that this poses to educators and learners alike and how classroom discourse reflects this reality. This case study of a rural, bilingual …
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A Qualitative Study of Personal Philosophies and Teaching Methods Regarding Whole Language
The term whole language is broad and open to many interpretations. This study examined two aspects of interpretation regarding whole language. The first aspect examined is the personal philosophy teachers hold regarding whole language. Secondly, this study looked at how teachers apply their …
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Language Attitudes Towards Arabic and English in the State of Qatar: A study of secondary schoolchildren, in two dual language private schools predominantly attended by Qatari and native Arabic-speaking children
… society. The increased presence of the English language has led to some questions regarding the Arabic language’s vitality within the country. As Qatar aims to modernise into a knowledge-based society while also maintaining its Arab and Islamic culture, the Qatari government had introduced …
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COGNITION, MODALITY, AND LANGUAGE IN HEALTHY YOUNG ADULTS
Measures drawn from language samples (e.g., discourse measures) are used in clinical and research settings as a functional measure of language and cognitive abilities. In narrative elicitation tasks, discourse measures reliably vary by the type of prompt used to collect a language sample. …
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Foreign Language Acquisition among Children with Down Syndrome: A Precedent Study for Christian Schools
… syndrome are largely excluded from the foreign language classroom, and no research exists documenting their abilities to learn a foreign language. Research is needed to demonstrate the abilities of children with Down syndrome to learn a foreign language so that they might be included in the …
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From score to song—The rise of the 'star composer' and the role of music in contemporary anime
… grossing films of all time. Existing English-language research on anime to date has, however, mostly ignored music’s role within the artistic medium — which encompasses both classically trained composers and pop musicians creating catchy, vocal led ‘opening’ and ‘ending’ themes for televised …
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Exploring the Life and Work of Gladys Forrester: A Canadian Dance Educator, 1936 - 1998
… of Canadian dance evolution and culture. This research investigates one mid-twentieth century, Toronto dance teacher, Gladys Forrester, expanding the body of knowledge specific to her career and contributions within the context of Toronto (and Canadian) dance history. Through archival and oral …
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Privacy in the small
… proposing a methodology for creating cross-language comparable corpora. Using English and Italian privacy policies, it showcases how language and cultural adaptations influence user comprehension of technical terms and offers a replicable approach for cross-language research. Chapter 4 …
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Organisational and systems factors impacting on patient safety in acute care organisations: lessons from four multi-site research studies
… patient safety, presented both a practical and a research challenge in the early 2000s, leading to the eleven publications presented in this thesis. Research question The overarching research question was: What are the key organisational and systems factors that impact on patient safety, and how …
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Linguistic Diversity On Africa: Clustering Methods Application On Language Typology Data
One of the main goals in language research is to understand the distribution of linguistic diversity and its underlying principles. Linguistic typology allows us to characterize diverse languages in terms of their linguistic features, which can be used to create a relatively comprehensive …
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THE EFFECTS OF NATIVE LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE ON THE PHONOLOGICAL PERCEPTION OF COMPLEX LABIAL-VELAR STOPS
This study investigates the effects of native language experience and phonetic properties on the discrimination of labial-velar versus labial and velar contrasts, as well as voicing contrasts in labials, velars, and labial-velars. Research indicates that phonological perceptions are influenced by …
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Xri: A study of contact, and phonetic and phonological change
Xri is a Khoekhoe language spoken among the Griekwa people of the Northern Cape, South Africa, and was thought until recently to be extinct. Fieldwork conducted in 2018 and 2019 documented Xri spoken by 27 semi-speakers and rememberers, the last speakers of this dying language. The absence of …
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From Vico to Grassi: toward a rhetoric of openness
This research fuses humanist concepts of language with chaos theory to move toward a rhetoric of openness. Like other dynamic systems, metaphoric/poetic language generates concepts and discourse which interact with each other and change each other over time. Such a non-rigid, flexible view of …
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Interventions That Move: Characterizing the Language of Therapist Responses to High Patient Arousal
… seeks to identify whether certain therapist language features are linked to the facilitation of patients’ movement from Arousal to Symbolizing. Using treatment transcripts from the RP Group Data Base, cases of high patient Arousal were divided into intervention trajectory categories based on …
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