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Showing 1 to 20 of 147 for “"spell"”.
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Spell checkers and correctors : a unified treatment
… is to provide a unified treatment of various spell checkers and correctors. Firstly, the spell checking and correcting problems are formally described in mathematics in order to provide a better understanding of these tasks. An approach that is similar to the way in which denotational …
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Come, Set a Spell: A Novel in Stories
<p>Come, Set a Spell: A Novel in Stories, centers on the lives of the women of one Kentucky family across several generations. Some of the characters are gifted with the innate, magical abilities associated with Appalachian “wise-women,” a kind of magic that is inextricably linked to the natural …
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The Broken Spell: The Romance Genre in Late Mughal India
This study is concerned with the Indian "romance" (qissah) genre, as it was understood from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Particularly during the Mughal era, oral and written romances represented an enchanted world populated by sorcerers, jinns, and other marvellous beings, …
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Seeing the Spell: Baroque, Decadence, and a Cinema of Digital-Animated Liberation
This dissertation draws on the artistic traditions of seventeenth-century Baroque and nineteenth-century Decadence in seeking to formulate an analytical vocabulary for the aesthetics of digitally-animated spectacle in contemporary cinema. The dissertation seeks to critique binary antinomies of …
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A comparative study of two types of drill in learning to spell
Thesis (M.S.Ed.)--University of Kansas, Education, 1927.
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Snow Spell: An Interactive Composition for Erhu, Flute, Piano, Cello, and Max/MSP
Snow Spell is an interactive composition for erhu, flute, cello, piano, and Max/MSP interactive computer music system. This one-movement piece, Snow Spell, is intended to depict the beauty of a snow scene by presenting four different impressions of snow envisioned by the composer through music. The …
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Learning to spell: development and evaluation of a spelling programme for Key Stage one
… considers the development and evaluation of a spelling programme for children of primary-school age. The Programme is designed to ensure that all the processes involved in learning to spell are activated and that the interaction between them is facilitated. In addition, a number of innovative …
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Spared syntax and impaired spell-out: the case of prepositions in Broca's and anomic aphasia
… in selection of the correct preposition at spell-out – a construct in modern linguistic theory that links syntax with phonology – is put forward.
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Assessing dry spell and wet day frequencies over southern Africa during the summer rainy season
… is able to inform agricultural activity. Dry spells (pentads having <5 mm) and moderate wet days (10-30 mm) over southern Africa were assessed using high resolution (0.05◦) Climate Hazards group Infrared Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS) datasets over the period 1981/82-2018/19 during …
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Examining the Quick Spell Test : how does it relate to phonological processes, naming speed, orthographic processing, and reading?
… relationship between performance on the Quick Spell Test (Bowers, 1996) and reading ability in an archival sample of Grade 3 (N = 192) and Grade 4 (N = 149) children from Kirby, Parrila, Deacon, and Wade-Woolley’s (2004-2007) longitudinal study. The data included a battery of phonological …
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An investigation into dry and wet spell characteristics over Zambia and into the onset of the rainy season
Recurring dry/wet spells and decreased agricultural productivity during the last decade in the southern and northern parts of Zambia point to the need for a clearer understanding of these events, their frequencies and their possible connection to large-scale climate modes. Apart from having a high …
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The mechanics of front leg loading during cricket fast bowling: delivery variations, spell demands, and the effects of strength training
… angles). The biomechanics of delivery lengths, spell demands, periodised strength training interventions, and the potential to conduct biomechanical analyses during match-play, have received limited attention within the scientific literature with respect to fast bowling. Therefore, the purpose …
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The Effects of Sixth Grade Students' Processes of Accessing Information (Following the Neuro-Linguistic Programming Model) on Their Spelling Abilities
… or not the process students’ use to access spelling information will predict their abilities to spell words correctly. The subjects involved in this study included 50 sixth grade students from low average, average, high average and gifted reading groups. Subjects were given an oral spelling …
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Syntactic edges and linearization
… of syntactic domains. As a consequence of cyclic Spell-out and conditions on syntactic agreement, elements externally merged as a constituent at the edge of a Spell-out domain cannot be separated by a domain-internal element. This proposal provides a unified account of a variety of types of …
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Topics in the stress and syntax of words
… the syntactic phenomenon of phase-by-phase Spell-Out, Chomsky (2001), Marantz (2001). The analysis of data from English and Slovenian indicates that the syntactic structure in word formation, specifically, the existence of phases at the word level, is necessary to make generalizations about …
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Using Computers as a tool in the remediation of Developmental Dyslexia
… overcome their problems with written language. Spelling inaccuracy is a persistent problem for dyslexics and is particularly embarrassing for older students. In a study of the effectiveness of computer spell checkers, the spelling accuracy of nineteen 11 to 13 year old dyslexics was compared …
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Doctoral thesis recital (percussion)
Travel diary / Paul Lansky -- Rain spell / Toru Takemitsu -- Kembang suling / Gareth Farr -- Credo in us / John Cage.
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A theory of two strong islands
… is an island. The thesis develops the so-called Spell Out theory, based on the original proposal by Johnson (2003). This theory derives CED from two basic assumptions about when and to which constituent Spell Out is applied over the course of syntactic derivation. The assumptions are, first, that …
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Intonation and interface conditions
… is syntactically composed. Adopting the Multiple Spell-Out analysis (Chomsky, 2000, 2001b), I propose that the phonological rules for FIP formation apply to Spell-Out domains, rather than to a whole sentence. This proposal departs from previous analyses of FIP in Japanese (Truckenbrodt, 1995; …
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