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Time to Proficiency in Young English Learners and Factors That Affect Progress
TESOL Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 695-729, June 2025.Abstract We investigated the time it takes 54,146 English learners (ELs) to attain English proficiency as they progressed from age 5 to 11 on average (Kindergarten through fifth grade in the United States). We also examine to what extent the time‐to‐proficiency estimate is affected by child‐internal and child‐external factors, including primary ...
Xiaowan Zhang, Paula Winke
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Folia OrientaliaThe contribution summarises the Beja lexicon connected with natural phenomena, including astronomical, temporal, and geographical terminology. Every lexeme is documented in available sources and etymologized in areal or genealogical perspectives.
Václav Blažek
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Studia Orientalia ElectronicaGuanche is an extinct language or languages spoken by the indigenous people of the Canary Islands. Although it is widely assumed that their language belonged to the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic languages, this has not been adequately tested.
Zev Brook
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Word Forms Reflect Trade‐Offs Between Speaker Effort and Robust Listener Recognition
Cognitive Science, Volume 48, Issue 7, July 2024.Abstract How do cognitive pressures shape the lexicons of natural languages? Here, we reframe George Kingsley Zipf's proposed “law of abbreviation” within a more general framework that relates it to cognitive pressures that affect speakers and listeners.
Stephan C. Meylan, Thomas L. Griffiths
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Visualizing the Boni dialects with Historical Glottometry [PDF]
, 2019 This paper deals with the historical relations between dialects of Boni, a Cushitic language of Kenya and Somalia. Boni forms the subject of Volume 10 of the Language and Dialect Atlas of Kenya (Heine & Möhlig 1982). Heine presents evidence for three
Elias, Alexander
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Characterization of CYP2B6 and CYP2A6 Pharmacogenetic Variation in Sub‐Saharan African Populations
Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, Volume 115, Issue 3, Page 576-594, March 2024.Genetic variation in CYP2B6 and CYP2A6 is known to impact interindividual response to antiretrovirals, nicotine, and bupropion, among other drugs. However, the full catalogue of clinically relevant pharmacogenetic variants in these genes is yet to be established, especially across African populations. This study therefore aimed to characterize the star
David Twesigomwe +13 more
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The democratical ideal and the Oresteia between 'Back to Basics' and cultural studies, between old and new historicism [PDF]
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Decreus, Freddy
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History and Theory, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 45-70, March 2024.ABSTRACT This article discusses the impact of genomic history, a subdiscipline that emerged in the study of the ancient Mediterranean in the 2010s. In 2014, scientists first published a method for extracting genetic material, which they christened aDNA (ancient DNA), from ancient human remains in hot climates.
Christopher Stedman Parmenter
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Quotative constructions and prosody in some Afroasiatic languages: Towards a typology [PDF]
, 2015 International audienceThis chapter investigates, in a crosslinguistic perspective, the relationship between prosodic contours and direct and indirect reported speech (i.e.
Malibert, Il-Il, Vanhove, Martine
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Paul Newman: A Hausa–English Dictionary
Lexikos, 2011 Hausa (Chadic/Afroasiatic) is a major world language, spoken by more than 40 million people who are mostly found in northern Nigeria and the Republic of Niger. A sizeable number reside in other parts of Nigeria and the major cities of West Africa (Accra,
Malami Buba
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