Language in the USA Part 4 pps

... ? Taking the sow away from the piglets during weaning, rather than removing the piglets. ? Putting the sow in a pen next to the boar after weaning. ? Bringing her into contact with the boar ... heat within 14 days of weaning, there are various possible causes: ? The suckling period has been too long - the shorter the period, the quicker she will come on heat...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 19:20

... 1930 to 1970 the average number of trees per ha increased from 100 to 2, 500 (the spacing de- creased from 10m x 10m to 3 .20 m x 1 .25 m). In these 40 years the mean yield in the country increased ... mango tree being replaced by 3 or 5 more fruitful small mango trees of different varieties! (But these trees may be too small to sit in Fruit growing in the tropic...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 00:20

... stock Side grafting – mature, woody stock Grafting On mother tree in the field Inarching – durian, lansat, jackfruit Approach grafting – mango Fruit growing in the tropics 36 have ... Fruit growing in the tropics 40 4. 3 Concluding remarks Most fruit crops can be cloned in different ways. Budding and grafting are only used where cuttings or laye...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 00:20

... mother: this is the so-called weaning. The young are then no longer allowed to stay with the goat so that they can no longer drink from their mother. Clean drinking water must be available in ... produc- tion, you can leave them a little longer with the mother goat. Do re- member to wean the young goats at least two months before the next gestation period of the mother....

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 00:20

... grouped together at the beginning of the volume or preceding each section. Language in USA: Themes for the Twenty-first Century is a shorter book than the 19 81 volume, despite its having a few more ... although certainly not all, idioms originating in the USA are known in other varieties as well. The older verb bite the dust (which appears in the OED) and the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 21:21

... are those in the words thirty and down and those in the words wood and tooth.By contrast, the other vowels vary in the relationships within the four systems of figure 3-8, and the variation increases in ... isoglosses. For instance, in figure 3-3 the isoglosses diverge in eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, just where the double lines appear in figure 3-1. All of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 21:21

... so that interested students can attain fluency or retain it in these languages, thereby getting high-school foreign language credit for studying them, offering their test scores in these languages ... district and one in which the high standard of living effectively limits the numbers of resident and incoming minorities speaking languages other than English. All of the children i...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 21:21

... it is sitting, standing, or lying (Mithun 1996: 144 ). 23. Tunica position ‘sitting,’ ‘lying,’ ‘standing’ (Haas 1 941 , cited in Mithun 1996: 144 ) In the examples below, the underlined parts tell ... dichotomy in the USA, which may assign brother to one race and sister to another, while it ignores the culture of both. A comparison of the distinct in- migration experiences...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 21:21

... speakers in total population USA 248,709,873 22, 354 , 059 8.9 11,117,606 4 .5 New Mexico 1 ,51 5,069 57 9,224 38.2 398,186 26.3 Texas 16,986 ,51 0 4,339,9 05 25. 5 3,443,106 20.3 California 29,760,021 7 ,55 7 ,55 0 ... configurations by learning other languages and dialects, to help the USA become linguistically competent and culturally sensitive. Latinos in the Northeast are d...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 21:21

... Japanese immigrants. In spite of these restrictions, the number of Asians in the USA continued to rise. By the 1920s, some 200,000 Japanese went to Hawai‘i and 120,000 to the USA mainland. Motivated in part by the ... Sau Ling. 1988. The Language Situation of Chinese Americans.” In McKay and Wong, eds. Pp. 193–228. Xia, Ningsheng. 1992. “Maintenance of the Chinese...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 21:21

... instruction part of the time in their home languages, thus giving them access to the curricular content of school in language they already understood, and part of the time in English, providing ... students across the USA. From the beginning there was ideological opposition to bilingual education, however. This chapter documents the increasing debate that would end...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 21:22

... diffused the tension with the answer: “Chemotherapy sucks.” Because in the USA today most forms of social interaction, including language, have been moving in the direction of informality, the criterion ... doing things, and new ways of talking about what they are doing – ways that suit their purposes as a group. And the fate of these innovations will depend on the statu...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 21:22

... James. 198 6 [ 197 4]. Winter in the Blood.New York: Penguin. 199 0. The Indian Lawyer.New York: Penguin. Welch, James, with Paul Steklar. 199 4. Killing Custer: the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate ... Longman. Bodine, Ann. 197 5. “Androcentrism in Prescriptive Grammar: Singular They,Sex-indefinite He and He or She,” Language in Society 4: 1 29 46. Bucholtz, Mary....

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 21:22

... fascination with CMC, the processes in uencing the formation of new words and practices in CMC are subject to the same general principles that in uence language use and language change in other ... earlier investigation in New York City. Respondents college students in Michigan identified fourteen dialect areas of the USA, the most important being the South, the No...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 21:22

... spontaneous or inducible ventricu- lar tachycardia, cryotherapy was also applied to the edges of the resection (50% of cases). Between development of the surgical principles in 19 84 and 2002, the Dor ... after 1 year [47 ]. Failure to improve was associated with more se- vere degenerative changes in the myocyte, includ- ing depletion of sarcomeres, accumulation of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:20