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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"the Russian language"”.
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Political Memes as Tools of Dissent and Alternative Digital Activism in the Russian-language Twitter
This research has analysed the role of Internet memes in the contemporary Russian alternative discourse. It has identified memes as the Internet common language that users exploit to communicate on all topics and also utilise as the mind-bombs to influence the political discourse. This project …
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The Effect of Second Language Instruction on Acquisition of Relative Clauses in the Russian Language
The purpose of this research was to test the predictions of the Accessibility Hierarchy (AH) theory (Keenan & Comrie, 1977) applying it to the Russian language. According to this theory, relative clauses (RC) are acquired in a fixed unidirectional order: from subject (S) - the highest (unmarked) …
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The Development of Pragmatic Competence and Perception of Requests by American Learners of the Russian Language
<p>This study investigates the cross cultural realization of request patterns. The goal of the study is to compare the realization of requests produced by adult American English speaking learners of Russian (NNS) to that of native speakers of Russian and native speakers of English to identify the …
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Lietuvos gyventojų kalbinės nuostatos rusų kalbos atžvilgiu /
The topic of this bachelor's thesis is "Linguistic Attitudes of Lithuanian People towards the Russian Language". The research aims are to determine the linguistic attitudes of Lithuanians towards the Russian language, how these attitudes have (not) changed since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, …
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The Effect of Hyperarticulation on the Perception of Palatalization in Russian by L1 American English Speakers
The current study investigates a relationship between the ease of perception of a feature of secondary palatalization in Russian and a speech condition (casual and hyperarticulated). Forty-one L1 American English speakers – the students of the Russian program at The University of Mississippi – took …
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Language of the Enemy: Impacts of the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War on Linguistic and National Identity Paradigms in Ukraine
<p>Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, attempts at nation-building in newly independent Ukraine were stymied by disagreements over two competing narratives of national identity. Both the Eastern Slavic and ethnic Ukrainian national identity complexes evolved over the course of …
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Protutor : a pronunciation tutor that uses historic open learner models
Second language learners face many challenges when learning a new language. To determine which challenges learners needed additional support in overcoming, we conducted a needs assessment of the Russian language program at the University of Saskatchewan and found that their students needed the most …
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Adaptation of the BIAS R to Russian language and piloting validation studies
#### Motivation The Russian-speaking population in Germany increased in the past 40 years. In Germany, no standardised diagnostic tool for aphasia is currently available to assess Russian-speaking people suffering from late acute and early post-acute aphasia. In most cases, this group of people can …
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A Semiotic Approach to Russian Military Map Symbology and Terms
Modern Russian military maps may comprise any combination of over 1,000 map symbols and 3,000 Russian terms. These symbols and terms identify tangible aspects such as locations, unit/equipment type, numbers, etc., but some symbols, and groupings of symbols, can also denote more subjective aspects …
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Learning Russian Case Endings Through Model Sentences
<p>The current study examines aspects of the Russian language that are particularly challenging for English-speaking students. It focuses on the complexity of Russian's grammatical morphology, specifically Russian case endings. In this study, methods and theories from the field of Second Language …
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Predictors of acquisition of Russian language listening skills by army intelligence specialists
The Army has approximately 2000 soldiers on active duty trained to be Russian linguists for duties as intelligence specialists. To maintain this group, 1100 to 1300 candidates are sent annually to the Defense Language Institute (DLI) in Monterey, California, for an intensive 47 week basic Russian …
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The Role of Formulaic Language in the Creation of Grammar
Research in the field of Formulaic Language has shown it to be a very diverse phenomenon in both the form it takes and the functions it performs (e.g., Erma and Warren, 2000; Wray, 2002). The proposal made by Sinclair (1991) states that language as a system is organized according to two principles, …