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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"linguistic behavior"”.
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The relationship between linguistic behavior and diagnostic classifications in the language processing systems of bilingual schizophrenics
Both of these theoretical positions - the linguistics and the behavioristic - are introduced here as parallel structures within which a study of language can proceed. As this study is developed, each strand is evident to some extent, with a synthesis of the two evolving in a psycholinguistic model …
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The rise and fall of a wall and a dialect: Observations of shifting linguistic behavior among former East Berliners
… largely ignored---new problems was the linguistic barrier that had developed between East and West during the forty years of separation; The people in and around Berlin speak a regional dialect, Berlinish. Unbeknownst to most Berliners, the dialect took on a vastly different symbolic …
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A Linguistic Analysis of Developmental Changes in Children's Speech Revisions
… children demonstrating Stage I, II, III, and V linguistic behavior (Gallagher, 1977; Konefal & Stokes, 1984, Tomasello, Farrar, & Dines, 1984). An investigation that has examined the specific types of revision strategies used by children across each of Brown's (1973) linguistic stages has never …
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A description of the linguistic characteristics of the careful speech of recent high school graduates in entry-level positions of job categories of large employment in selected counties of Southwest Virginia
… this study was designed to investigate certain linguistic features of careful speech in a limited number of relatively homogeneous counties, each represented by an informant belonging to a certain age and social class, i.e., a 1975 high school graduate entering the job world immediately after …
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A discourse approach to Korean politeness:towards a culture-specific Confucian framework
… values, which operate sometimes outside of linguistic presentations, or used methods that prevented them from noticing the role of cultural values, which can function as another means of face redress in the construction of culture-specific politeness. The interactional aspects of language …
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Social networks and code-switching in the Newar community of Kathmandu City
The present study seeks to investigate the linguistic behavior of two Newari high castes, called Shresthas and Udas, living in Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal, in their use of Newari, the ethnic language, and Nepali, the national language. Specifically, the study attempts to explain the …
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The Linguistic And The Social Intertwined: Linguistic Convergence Toward Southern Speech
… examines the relationship between social and linguistic knowledge using a series of experiments eliciting linguistic convergence to Southern speech. I draw a terminological and theoretical distinction between previously observed input-driven convergence, in which speakers converge toward a …
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Discourse Markers of clarification and causality in Maghrebi and Egyptian dialects: a socio-pragmatic perspective
… contribute to our understanding of the Arabic linguistic situation and call for a need to extend Auer’s (2005) model to spoken Arabic. The findings also provide evidence that forms may become standard due to social consensus, as in the case of ya’ni, and not only due to their origin in standard …
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Verbal versus Nonverbal Interlocked-Behaviors in an Elaborated Account of the Metacontingency
… has begun to focus on properties of interlocked-behaviors (IBs) in addition to the variables influencing the associated re-occurrence in the recent years. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of low level of explicitness (i.e., ambiguity) of rules on performance at the dyad level, …
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A cybernetic model for the unified explanation of human behavior
… mechanistic approach to the explanation of human behavior is as old as western philosophy itself, dating back to the materialistic theories of mind of the pre-Socratics. Despite its antiquity, however, mechanism has never gained undisputed ascendancy as a psychological model. The “mental” side of …