Ukrainian is an Eastern Slavonic language closely related toRussianandBelarusian. It is spoken by about 51 million people in Ukraine (Україна) and in many other countries, including Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,...
a mediocre paper, in the worst, a practice punishable as academically dishonest. Students presented similar backstories to make sense of their AI practices. As both undergrads and graduate students, in the United States as well as China and Canada, students have been told by professors and ...
One 29-year-old woman working in engineering told me it was easier for gatekeepers in her male-dominated field to disregard running-on, softspoken, vocally frying and uptalking women. “It is difficult for young women to be heard or even responded to in many male-dominated fields if they...
Cupola. I’ve started reading Merezhkovsky’s «Воскресшиебоги. ЛеонардодаВинчи» (translated asThe Romance of Leonardo da Vinci[text]), and since it’s set in Renaissance Florence of course I’m reading up on that city and its history, which led...
Courtesy of frequent commenter and nugget-finder Paul, an interesting Science News piece called “Infants Raised in Bilingual Environments Can Distinguish Unfamiliar Languages,” which accurately describes the contents: “Infants raised in households where Spanish and Catalan are spoken can discriminate betw...
“It is good to have a written form of the language, but more importantly to have it spoken and used in daily life,” Djunuddin, a local elder, said of Cia-Cia. “Children nowadays, they don’t speak the Cia-Cia language anymore. They are so used to using Bahasa Indonesia, only ...
a larger vocabulary of academic terms in the language of schooling (usually the majority language) than in the language spoken at home, it is also normal for them to show a better knowledge of vocabulary related to the home environment in the language that is spoken in this context [38,39...
Functional convergence, on the other hand, is "the specification of a common set of features shared by the equivalent functional categories in the two languages spoken by a bilingual" (Sánchez 2003, p. 15). The main difference between the two processes is the result—convergence produces a ...
ЛеонардодаВинчи» (translated asThe Romance of Leonardo da Vinci[text]), and since it’s set in Renaissance Florence of course I’m reading up on that city and its history, which led me to bring up from the cellar a book I probably haven’t looked at in two ...