What is code-switching, why is it an important concept to understand, and how did it make English what it is today? Read on to find out...
For instance, someone might speak English with a Scottish accent but use the same grammatical structures and vocabulary as an English speaker from London; however, Scots, a variety spoken in Scotland, is considered a dialect (or even a separate, distinct language, by some) because it possesses ...
: when each dialect isintelligible with its contiguous neighbor but unintelligible with the dialects at the opposite end of the continuum1 2 … 5 … 8 9e.g., DutchGermanLING 200 -- McGarrity 9Problems (cont'd)□ Nonlinguistic criteria (political, historical,geographic etc.) may play a ...
Lonergan’s point—and Langer’s—is that artistic meaning is found only in the symphony: that is, in the concrete pattern of the musical sounds. There may also be an external relationship, for example, between a representative painting and the object represented; but that relationship as such...
i.e. How would I determine that for my voice communication system (200 - 6000 Hz), ___ value of THD is good enough? I suspect it would be rather high. I've truncated 16bit to 1bit and it is still intelligible. Bellcore or ITU-T must have specified it sometime in the past ...
The goal of the present contribution is to explore what kinds of objects languages are from a biolinguistic point of view. I define the biolinguistic point of view as a naturalistic study of languages and I show that from this point of view, languages are human language organs, that is, ...
If I see an interesting formula or similar on the slides, even if I don't know what the speaker is talking about, I sometimes try to see if I can figure out what that formula means, just because simple mathematics is still fun - what I do still does not help me understand...
Make sure the statement is intelligible to everyone, not just a specialist in your field. Besides explaining the general theme or focus of your research, your scholarly achievements, and your aims for the future, it should provide specifics on what your research program will be like at the ...
Amish speak a version of German known as Pennsylvania German, or Pennsylvania Dutch. It has some similarities with dialects of German spoken in Europe today. This is their first language. Pennsylvania Dutch, as spoken by the Amish today, includes some En
“what kind of a teacher, working with students in what kind of a class, would be writing such an examination?” and goes on to describe the value of what the Germans used to callstatarische Lektüre, in which a small quantity of text is read thoroughly (opposed tokursorische Lektüre,...