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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"mixed language"”.
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Sheng : the mixed language of Nairobi
… dissertation is to determine whether Sheng, a language spoken in the Eastlands area of Nairobi, Kenya, is a mixed language (incorporating Swahili, English and local vernaculars). The study focuses on the lexicon and morphosyntax, but social factors are examined as well. Three broad research …
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Mixed-Language Arabic- English Information Retrieval
This thesis attempts to address the problem of mixed querying in CLIR. It proposes mixed-language (language-aware) approaches in which mixed queries are used to retrieve most relevant documents, regardless of their languages. To achieve this goal, however, it is essential firstly to suppress the …
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Silozi, a mixed language: an analysis of the noun class system and kinship terms
Silozi, the language of the Malozi people in Zambia and Namibia is a mixed language that has been the subject of a classification debate between scholars. Doke (1943) classifies Silozi in the same zone as Sesotho languages due to linguistic similarities. Guthrie (1948) in contrast, classify it …
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Prospective Teachers' Noticing and Naming of Students' Mathematical Strengths and Support of Students' Participation
… teachers begin to use strengths-based language and support students’ participation after participating in a digital learning experience on noticing and naming students’ mathematical strengths. The central research question guiding this work is: What feedback statements do prospective …
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Preserving Memory Safety in Safe Rust during Interactions with Unsafe Languages
Rust is a programming language that simultaneously offers high performance and strong security guarantees. However, these guarantees come at the cost of strict compiler checks that sometimes prevent necessary code patterns. The unsafe keyword allows developers to bypass these compiler checks, and …
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A Place in the Sun: the Linguistic Consequences of Lifestyle Migration to Southern Spain
This thesis explores the mixed language and dialect setting of an international school in Spain across two age groups, young children and adolescents. It aims to investigate the impact of frequent and sustained interaction between Anglo and Non-Anglo informants, and if within such a turbulent, …
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A Description of the Phonology and Morphology of Kɔɖa, An Endangered Language of Bangladesh
… and morphology of Kɔɖa [cdz], an endangered language of Bangladesh and one of the least described Munda languages of South Asia. It has four chapters: 1) Introduction, 2) Phonology, 3) Morphology, and 4) Kɔɖa in the Context of Language Contact. Chapter 1 provides a demographic overview of …
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El uso y el mantenimiento de la lengua: Garifuna en Sangrelaya, Honduras
Garifuna is a language spoken by thousands of people in Central America and in the United States. It is considered a mixed language of Arawak and Caribe descent. It has been demonstrated that indigenous languages in much of the world face endangerment; Garifuna is no exception. In many communities, …
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Pataxó Hãhãhãe: Race, Indigeneity and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Northeast
Having pride in one’s mixed racial heritage has been seen as an important part of being a good and patriotic Brazilian since at least the early 1900s. Recently, however, as part of Brazil’s re-democratization and the rise of the New Left, communities have mobilized not only as landless (see Welch …
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Language maintenance and shift: a survey of isiZulu speakers residing in Soshanguve
The study’s main objective was to investigate the language maintenance and shift amongst the isiZulu language speakers residing in Soshanguve, a township in which Sotho-Tswana languages (or Sepitori) dominate. The most current South African Census offers quantifiable insight into the variety of …
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Visualising categorical data: Linguistic case studies from te Reo Māori and New Zealand English
… large digital collections of naturally occurring language, serves as the primary application domain in this thesis. This domain was chosen because it is rich in multivariate categorical data and, at the same time, is often visualised using only basic techniques. This thesis contributes to the area …
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The effect of LoLT on learner performance in disadvantaged schools in the Western Cape
… research investigated the differential effect of language of teaching and learning (LoLT) on learner performance in relation to learners' first language (L1) (isiXhosa) compared to their second language (L2) (English) by researching a sample of comparable primary schools that followed one of two …
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Quichua-Spanish language contact in Salcedo, Ecuador: revisiting media lengua syncretic language practices
… that might have given rise to Media Lengua, a ‘mixed’ language comprised of a Quichua grammar and Spanish lexicon. Muysken attributes the formation of Media Lengua to relexification, ruling out any influence from other bilingual phenomena. I argue that the only characteristic that distinguishes …
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The Effects of Diaphragm Flexibility on the Seismic Performance of Light Frame Wood Structures
… is named WoodFrameSolver and is written on a mixed language platform Microsoft Visual Studio .NET using object-oriented C++, C and FORTRAN. This tool set is capable of performing basic structural analysis chores like static and dynamic analysis of 3D structures. It has a wide collection of …