the nature of language acquisition

... education The national language policy currently in place in Botswana, is that Setswana is the national language of the country (Republic of Botswana 1985:8). So, despite the existence of other local ... (elites). The choice of which language or dialect to use to teach (medium of instruction) reflects the interests of those elite. In countries in which one of the languages dominate, there is ... order to improve the quality of life of the poor and rural people adult education programs should include as one of its components the observation and imitation of the artisans and other skilled...

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... waterproof / / wc:tCpru:f / (a): waterproof clothes keep you dry because they do not let rain pass through them: không thm nc a waterproof jacket: áo ves-tông không thm nc IN THE KNOW: The ... KNOW: The penguins of Philip Island are very small, as can be seen in the photograph. They are also a tourist attraction. They walk along the same pathways from the sea to their nests every ... _________ in the headphones. 4. First, Soriah fed the cat. Then, she called her mother. Soriah _________ her mother after she _________ the cat. 5. First, Marie did her homework. Then, she...

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... A. The determination of stress patterns B. The determination of consonantal doubling rules in the inflection of English verbs C. The determination of word-breaking rules as used in end -of -the- line ... or later face the problem of unscrambling English affixes. The role of affixes is crucial in the study of word-breaking practice. In the automatic determination of the parts of speech (a central ... to the corpus K consist- ing of all of the cvcvc words listed in the Shorter Ox- ford Dictionary leads to the strong affixes given in Table II. We give some of the details illustrating the...

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... producing the 25-best list for the reranker. The log figure of merit is the sum of the log language model probability and the log channel model probability plus 1.5 times the number of edits in the ... look at these two components in the next two Sections in more detail. 5.2 Language Model Informally, the task of language model component of the noisy channel model is to assess fluency of the sentence ... overesti- mate the weight associated with the feature derived from the Switchboard language model, since the flu- ent sentence itself is part of the language model training data. We solve this by dividing the...

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... , Is the cat that the dog t chasing is scared? where the first auxiliary is fronted (the first "is"), instead of the auxiliary following the subject of the sentence (here, the second ... early acquisition as in the case of French verb raising) rate of unambiguous evidence, sufficient to drive out other word order grammars very early on. Consider then the acquisition of the ... subject languages. 5 However, there exists a certain type of English sentence that is in- dicative (Hyams, 1986): There is a man in the room. Are there toys on the floor? The subject of these...

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... to the environment, they are themselves subject to the dynamics of the environment. These dynamics, which are produced by the interactions of the nodes and shaped by the media that channel the ... made audible the resonances between the blast of Dada at the end of WWI in Zurich and Berlin, the gust of the Situationists on the Rive Gauche in Paris in the 1960s, and the explosion of Punk Rock ... supporters of FOSS. For the time being, the low costs which increase its accessibility are offset by the still rather high barrier of technical expertise necessary to make use of the much of the software....

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... grammar of his or her native language is one of the most beguiling open problems of cognitive science. There has been recent interest in computer simulation of the acquisition process and the ... TLA as a viable model of human language acquisition. The STL: Fodor’s Structural Triggers Learner (STL) makes greater use of the parser than the TLA. A key feature of the model is that parameter ... access to the on-line operations of the parser. Originally, the ability to detect ambiguity was employed in two variations of the STL: the strong STL (SSTL) and the weak STL. The SSTL executes...

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... these people, one of the ducts usually drains only a small part of the pancreas and empties directly into the duode- num. The other duct drains most of the pancreas but is often too small for the job, ... 16-27 depicts the major causes. Gallstones are by far the most common cause of obstruction. Other causes include cancer of the head of the pancreas, pancreatitis, inflammatory disease of the ducts, ... pancreatic duct merges with the common bile duct, and together they pass through the head of the pancreas before emptying into the duodenum at the ampulla of Vater. The pancreas is exceptional...

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... 1-2 at the end of the chapter offers another example to think about. THE EFFECT OF DISEASE PREVALENCE ON TEST USEFULNESS The prevalence of a disease is the number of persons who have the disease ... to be synthesized by elements of the cytoplasm. RNA carries DNA messages from the nu- cleus into the cytoplasm, the fluid part of the cell sur- rounding the nucleus. DNA is constructed of building ... 275 Nomenclature of Blood Vessel Disease / 277 Atherosclerosis / 277 The Causes and Consequences of Atherosclerosis / 277 The Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis / 278 Risk Factors for Atherosclerosis / 279 The...

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... factors for selecting one verb over the other;, (I) the intended perspec- tive of the situation, (2) the emphasis of one activity rather than another, (3) the focus being on a particular individ- ... as a result of the use of the various control heuristics that guide the process of generation. In other words, they axe incorpo- rated in the procedural knowledge rather than the static knowledge. ... the rest of the lexical items do not have an independent epistemo- logical status, outside the context of an utterance. The selection of closed-class items, therefore, comes as a result of...

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... by 0.0167 gÆcm )3 , from the start of the experiment. By the end of the measurement, the thickness had increased by 0.342 nm, the mass had increased by 0.10 ngÆmm )2 and the density had decreased ... fluores- cence. The subsequent plateau phase is associated with a decrease in the concentration of small species, or the aggregation and precipitation of fibrils [37]. The kinet- ics of these three stages of ... min. In the main, the pres- ence of a-crystallin significantly decreased formation of this large aggregate. As a result of the interaction of a-crystallin with reduced j-casein, a complex of similar mass...

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... specimens reveal the crucial point of connection between the head appendages and the shield itself. (The end of the appendage opposite to the point of attachment with the body the distal, or farthest, ... above (dorsal). We see the position of the eyes and nozzle, the full sequence of lateral lobes, and the gills lying above the lobes. The gut runs as a straight tube down the middle of the body. Figure ... can imagine the discussions, the escalating arguments, the threats, the near fracturings, the break, the return of the prodigal son, the reconciliation. I don't think that any of this occurred,...

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... earth or to the legitimacy of human wants. On the face of it, the case is absurd. Most physical laws define the limits of what it is possible to do. And all of the authentic moral teachings of 3,000 ... cleverness, is the proper aim of all true learn- ing • The velocity of knowledge can be inversely related to the acquisition of wisdom • The careless application of knowledge can destroy the conditions ... erosion. The speed of the horse, in other words, allows the Amish to pay attention to the minute particulars of their farm and how they farm. By a similar logic, he waits to cut hay until the bobolinks...

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... an award that describes a lot of concepts of the group #10. The assessment of the performance and accountability of the NSF in the U.S. is the responsibility of the Advisory Committee for GPRA ... citations. The citation tree rings of a few articles have layers of rings in red. It means that these articles experienced a significant surge of citations. They were at the center of the attention of the ... same abstract. The terms shown have the highest centrality scores, which measure the importance of their role in linking other terms to- gether in the network. The position of the term divergent...

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