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Contemporary Songs and Traditional Literature in the EFL Classroom
Iperstoria, 2013 The most difficult goal an EFL teacher aspires to achieve is undoubtedly succeeding in involving L2 students in the study of English language and literature. Young learners, in fact, tend to use books and English teaching materials only to get good marks
Sara Corrizzato
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Drunkards and Singers: A Mongolian Battle of Sounds
Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 2016 When I conducted fieldwork among the Darhad of northern Mongolia my informants repeatedly asserted that after a good singer’s performance even the most badly intoxicated lad stands still and keeps silent.
Laurent Legrain
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Cultural revolutions reduce complexity in the songs of humpback whales
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2018 Much evidence for non-human culture comes from vocally learned displays, such as the vocal dialects and song displays of birds and cetaceans. While many oscine birds use song complexity to assess male fitness, the role of complexity in humpback whale ...
J. Allen +3 more
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Extreme diversity in the songs of Spitsbergen's bowhead whales
Biology Letters, 2018 Almost all mammals communicate using sound, but few species produce complex songs. Two baleen whales sing complex songs that change annually, though only the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) has received much research attention. This study focuses
K. Stafford +3 more
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Boletín de Literatura Oral, 2019 This paper intends to produce a comparative analysis of 49 oral samples of the kind of chapbook known as “romance de ciego” and titled ‘The Woman Murdered by her Lover’ or ‘The Dance’.
Miriam Pimentel García
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Sympatric song variant in mountain chickadees Poecile gambeli does not reduce aggression from black-capped chickadees Poecile atricapillus [PDF]
, 2016 When habitats overlap and species compete for resources, negative interactions frequently occur. Character displacement in the form of behavioural, social or morphological divergences between closely related species can act to reduce negative ...
LaZerte, Stefanie E +3 more
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, 1975 Just a few men and women in the villages were well known for their voice and ability to sing these local songs. The songs were sung when people gathered together in someone’s house in the evening, tired from work, and at times of sadness and happiness ...
Wright, Susan
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Examination of Prosodic and Musical Structures of Muammer Sun’s Original Songs
Konservatoryum, 2023 Muammer Sun (1932-2021) gave importance to prosody. In prosody, the word that is to be emphasized in the sentence should be given the highest sound in the melody. In rhythmic harmony, the syllables in the word are separated by their length and shortness,
İvan Celac
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South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2021 Background: Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) learners have unique needs, and specific pedagogies, therefore, need to be employed to support the acquisition of their essential skills.
Deborah A. Arasomwan +1 more
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Bat songs as acoustic beacons - male territorial songs attract dispersing females
Scientific Reports, 2017 Male song in birds and mammals is important for repelling rivals, stimulating mates or attracting them to a specific location. Nevertheless, direct experimental evidence for the mate attraction function of male song is limited to a few studies.
M. Knörnschild +4 more
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