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Gender stereotypes and the apology in a small state : uncovering Creole male stereotypes in the Seychelles using digital matched-guise methodology [PDF]
, 2020 Recent research in the Seychelles speaks of a “growing crisis of masculinity”, manifested in statistics such as a ten-year life expectancy difference in favour of women, alarmingly high levels of substance abuse amongst younger men, and underachievement ...
Deutschmann, Mats, Steinvall, Anders
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The Impact of Credit and Training on Farmers Efficiency: A Semi‐Parametric Meta‐Frontier Analysis
Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers in developing countries face several constraints, which affect their productivity. To reduce these constraints and enhance productivity, government and non‐governmental agencies implement programmes that provide credit and training to farmers.
Anthony Baffoe‐Bonnie +1 more
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Culinary Caribbean English lexicon in Panamanian Spanish
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2011 An offshoot of Caribbean Creole English, Panamanian Creole English has been the source of loanwords referring to culinary delicacies of West Indian origin in the officially Spanish-speaking Republic of Panama, whose main language has, in turn, influenced
Jamieson, Martín
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
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Asymmetrical Complexity in Languages Due to L2 Effects: Unserdeutsch and Beyond
Languages, 2020 This study examines asymmetries between so-called inherent and contextual categories in relation to the morphological complexity of the nominal and verbal inflectional domain of languages.
Siegwalt Lindenfelser
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La mise en scène du créole martiniquais dans le Cahier d’un retour au pays natal d’Aimé Césaire
Revue Italienne d'Etudes Françaises, 2022 Aimé Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal reflects a polyglossic poetics. This hidden “dialogism” (M. Bakhtine) constitutes a “reterritorialization” of French language (A. Dyck).
Malik Noël-Ferdinand
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Effect of spoken language on primary care choice refugee health assessment program patients seen at Boston Medical Center [PDF]
, 2017 PURPOSE: There are approximately 21.3 million refugees worldwide. Connection to primary care is essential for these patients because of the potential for long-term and complex care that they require.
Tunstall, Hannah
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Predictors of Involvement in Head Start Services Among Diverse Immigrant Families [PDF]
, 2019 Nearly 86% of Head Start preschools serve non-English speaking families. The Head Start preschool program has been shown to increase academic proficiencies in children entering kindergarten and has been particularly successful in helping immigrant ...
Leong, Anne Day, Longo, Francesca
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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article follows producers of Kai Language Heroes, the first Indigenous language game show in the world, as they adapted the genre for language revitalization. Kai Language Heroes is one of many original programs at Taiwan Indigenous Television (TITV), a public broadcaster that serves Taiwan's diverse Austronesian‐speaking peoples. I argue
Eliana Ritts
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Software Infrastructure for Natural Language Processing
, 1997 We classify and review current approaches to software infrastructure for research, development and delivery of NLP systems. The task is motivated by a discussion of current trends in the field of NLP and Language Engineering.
Cunningham, Hamish +3 more
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