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Communicative Drills: The Impact of Communicative Intent on Oral Proficiency
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This exploratory study investigated the role of communicative intent in second language (L2) oral practice by comparing communicative and meaningful drills. English language learners played a game designed to elicit repeated use of the second conditional.
Jonathan Serfaty
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Temporal and conditional clauses in Chinese spoken discourse: A function-based study
, 2015 . It is generally agreed that different categories of adverbial clauses—temporal, conditional, and causal clauses may have their different performances of distribution and functions in different positions as preposed vs. postposed.
Yeh, Hui-Chen, Yeh Hui-chen
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Chronic Wasting Disease management responses in North America: A public policy analysis
Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.In this study we use the Multiple Streams Framework from public policy theory to assess the responses of wildlife management agencies in states and provinces with CWD‐positive cases in the United States and Canada to alleviate public concerns and manage the spread of this disease.
Kelly H. Dunning +12 more
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Pittman‐Robertson and Dingell‐Johnson: A Congressional endorsement of state supremacy over wildlife?
Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.Abstract The Pittman–Robertson Act of 1937 (PR) and the Dingell–Johnson Act of 1950 (DJ) provide states with substantial capacity to manage fish and wildlife by directing revenue from federal excise taxes on hunting and fishing equipment to states. The precise scope of state and federal wildlife management authority has been a topic of debate among ...
J. Vaughan Branch +2 more
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Representations of Nonlocal Syntactic Dependencies Feed Verb Learning in Infancy. [PDF]
Dev SciPerkins L, Ying Y, Williams A, Lidz J.
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Clause-internal causal inferences: evidence from nouns
A substantial body of pragmatics research has explored discourse-level coherence inferences — the links between clauses and even larger units that bind a series of utterances into a narrative. Hobbs (2010) proposed that there are also Clause-internal Coherence (CIC) inferences, such as that in, ‘A jogger was hit by a car,’ where one is likely to infer ...
Sasaki, K, Rohde, H, Altshuler, D
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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the effect of including environmental provisions (EPs) in preferential trade agreements (PTAs) on climate change mitigation and explores whether these effects vary based on the heterogeneity of the EPs. Our analysis combines country‐level data on climate change mitigation with details on 300 types of EPs in 775 trade ...
Petros Suzgo Kayovo Mkandawire +2 more
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Continuous Effects of Language Ability and Relative Proficiency on Bilingual Children's Production of Four Advanced Syntactic Constructions. [PDF]
Biling (Camb Engl)Jasso J, Castilla-Earls A, Van Horne AO.
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The expression of causal relationship in Old English prose
, 1955 This thesis embodies the results of an investigation into the ways in which the causal relationship is expressed in Old English prose. The concept of cause is regarded as including ideas both of cause or reason and of ground.
Liggins, Elizabeth M.
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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the factors influencing producer adoption of cover cropping and no‐till farming, two key carbon sequestration practices, within the context of voluntary carbon credit programmes (CCPs) in Kansas. Using a mixed‐methods survey that combines discrete choice experiments with farm‐level data from 370 producers, we estimate ...
Grant Edward Gardner +2 more
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