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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"unmarked"”.
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Three women and an unmarked map: a literary journey through Argentina and Chile
This thesis interweaves the lives and works of three Latin American women writers – Victoria Ocampo, Alfonsina Storni and Gabriela Mistral – into a travel narrative undertaken as part of a research project. The journey begins in Glasgow, Scotland and takes the reader as far as Buenos Aires, …
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A System for Natural Language Unmarked Clausal Transformations in Text-to-Text Applications
… systems to identify and separate marked and unmarked embedded clauses in complex sentence structure resulting in syntactically simplified source for further processing.
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The Effect of Second Language Instruction on Acquisition of Relative Clauses in the Russian Language
… order: from subject (S) - the highest (unmarked) and more susceptible to relativization position - to object of comparative (OCOM) - the lowest (marked) and less susceptible to relativization position. Since some researchers (Hamilton, 1994) claim that the AH is multidirectional rather …
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Learning phonotactic constraints in the production of non-native consonant clusters, as reflected in speech errors
… syllables including unattested marked and unmarked consonant clusters under artificial phonotactics constraints, following training in articulating the unattested segments. If speakers are sensitive to markedness in unfamiliar consonant clusters and capable of learning recently encountered …
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TRANSFORMATION: Southern West Virginia Coal Miner's Museum
… Sometimes it is right to gently touch or leave unmarked, but sometimes it is necessary to expose in order to preserve
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Exquisite Corpses: Markedness, Gender, and Death in Video Games
… subjection to mortality. I examine marked and unmarked player-character death to explain how deaths endorse values like resilience. However laudable those values are, they often rely on sexist assumptions and imagery that crucially limit games’ potential to encourage tarrying with death. …
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Markedness and instructed SLA: An experiment in teaching the Spanish subjunctive
… marked element and triggered the acquisition of unmarked subjunctive uses. For the purpose of the study, the instructional method used was processing instruction.
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Factors Important to the Efficiency of Artificial Insemination in Single-Ovulating and Superovulated Cattle
… anterior head) was matched with semen from an unmarked bull (conventional sperm head shape) to determine competitively the effect of a deep uterine insemination on accessory sperm number. Forty embryos were recovered 6 d after insemination and the ratio of accessory sperm observed was …
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Identification of the Mandibular Nerve with CBCT Using a Nerve Marking Tool or Not
… coronal image was printed on paper along with unmarked axial image, the distance between the film frame reference line to the superior border of canal and between the film frame reference line to the inferior border of the mandible was measured in all marked and unmarked printed images and the …
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The Silence of the Dead: Ethical and Juridical Significances of the Exhumations at Prestwich Place, Cape Town, 2003-2005
… 2003 and 2005. A seemingly arcane subject, these unmarked burials places have become sites for far-reaching discussions about history, memory, space, and identity in the city, and indeed the nation. The debates about the graves should be seen as invoking ethico-juridical questions about memory, …
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Does the Presence of a Non-Coincident Visual Spatial Pattern Facilitate Spatial Pattern Learning? Implications for a Dedicated Spatial Pattern Learning System
… environment open-field search task for four unmarked goal locations which were arranged in a diamond configuration located in a 5 x 5 matrix of raised bins. The pattern moved to a random location from trial-to-trial but always maintained the same spatial relations to each other (i.e., diamond …
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Phonological adaptation of English loanwords in Ammani Arabic
… that the adaptation process is geared towards unmarkedness in that faithfulness to the source input is violated in order to render the output unmarked. Unmarked structures in the adaptation process may arise even though their marked counterparts are equally attested in AA native phonology, …
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Generic pronouns and their influence on the speakers' language awareness
… be considered androcentric societies, since the unmarked use of the generic he makes everyone in this society male until explicitly proven otherwise. In this thesis I explore the history of the generic pronoun in English and offer suggestions for a change in language awareness which, in the ideal …
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Novel Speculations: Postrace Fictions in the 21st Century
… such as futuristic orientation, racially unmarked characters, and the reconfiguration of racial groupings, postrace novels attempt to unsettle our notions of race – a paradoxical endeavor, for attempts to unsettle a category ultimately invoke it again. Capable of interrogating emergent …
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Rigidity of length functions over strata of flat metrics
… Specifically, for any stratum with more unmarked zeroes than the genus, the Sigma-length-spectrum of a set of simple closed curves Sigma determines the flat metric in the stratum if and only if Sigma is dense in the projective measured foliation space. We also prove that flat metrics in …
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The Goodman psycholinguistic model of English reading and its applicability to Semitic languages
… phonology and inflectional features in reading unmarked texts (i.e. texts that are written in Modern Standard Arabic with no diacritics). The study was conducted in Tucson, Arizona, and involved fifteen Saudi male undergraduate students enrolled at The University of Arizona. Due to the …
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The Usefulness of Ground Penetrating Radar in locating burials in Charity Hospital Cemetery, New Orleans
… data were collected in the cemetery to locate unmarked graves. The TIR data could not be used because the expert died before compiling the TIR data. Therefore, the GPR data was the sole source of subsurface information. GPR anomalies were used to excavate 3 areas where bones and hospital …
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The optimal grammar of code-switching between Kannada and English
… quite high, making the code-switched variety the unmarked variety in conversations among the members of this group, the placement and the content of the switches show that the five principles still control the grammar of these bilinguals. The interaction of these principles gives rise to a ranking …
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Universal Grammar and the Subset Principle in second language acquisition: The acquisition of the Governing Category Parameter by adult Korean learners of English
… this proposal, English represents the narrowest (unmarked) value and Korean represents the widest (marked) one. Thus, by inspecting how Korean learners acquire English reflexives, we can address the issue of the availability of the Subset Principle in second language acquisition. This …
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