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Early production of the passive in two Eastern Bantu languages [PDF]
, 2012 The passive construction is acquired relatively late by children learning to speak many languages, with verbal passives not fully acquired till age 6 in English. In other languages it appears earlier, around age 3 or before.
Alcock, Katherine +2 more
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Pharmaceutical health care and Inuit language communications in Nunavut, Canada [PDF]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2013 Background. Pharmaceutical communication is an essential component of pharmaceutical health care, optimally ensuring patients understand the proper administration and side effects of their medications.
Sandra J. Romain
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Inuit Identities, Language, and Territoriality [PDF]
, 2008 This paper provides a framework for understanding the social complexity of the linkages between language, identity, and territoriality (or attachments to place).
Patrick, Donna
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Language and identity in an Indigenous teacher education program
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2019 The Inuit Bachelor of Education (IBED) and the associated Inuktitut language training, developed by the Nunatsiavut Government, has been an opportunity to explore the relationships between cultural identity and learning an Indigenous heritage language as
Sylvia Moore
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A syntax for semantic incorporation: generating low-scope indefinite objects in Inuktitut
Glossa, 2019 The range of scope readings for Inuktitut nominal expressions appears superficially to depend on the verbal morpho-syntax, with noun incorporation and antipassive inflection both playing a role. A new model is presented in which the syntactic role played
Douglas Wharram, Phil Branigan
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Taima (stop) TB: the impact of a multifaceted TB awareness and door-to-door campaign in residential areas of high risk for TB in Iqaluit, Nunavut. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The incidence rate of active tuberculosis (TB) disease in the Canadian Territory of Nunavut has shown a rising trend over the past 10 years. In 2010 it was 60 times greater than the national incidence rate. The objective of the Taima (translates to "stop"
Gonzalo G Alvarez +11 more
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Discours et identité à Iqaluit après l’avènement du Nunavut [PDF]
, 2006 Examining the results of interviews conducted in Iqaluit in 2003 with 35 Inuit individuals, this article attempts at shedding some light on the perceptions of respondents concerning the language situation in the North after the advent of Nunavut.
Dorais, Louis-Jacques
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Inuit perspectives on sustaining bilingualism in Nunavut [PDF]
, 2009 This article presents an Inuit perspective on how bilingualism and biliteracy may be achieved and sustained in Nunavut. The Nunavut Literacy Council interviewed “language role models” (i.e., Inuit who are admired for their skill in acquiring, using, and ...
Chenier, Cayla +5 more
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JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2015 According to the 2011 Census of Population conducted and published by Statistics Canada, there are over 60 Aboriginal languages grouped into 12 distinct language families in Canada.
Debbie Folaron +2 more
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