Child-Directed Speech in Rural and Urban Households in a Low-SES Afrikaans-Speaking Community in South Africa. [PDF]
InfancyABSTRACT Most studies on child language acquisition occur in the minority world (countries which make up the minority of the world's population). Their findings are not generalizable to majority‐world contexts, where the majority of the world's population lives.
Defty C, Southwood F.
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The pivot to online teaching: an opportunity to create effective problem-based learning environments for dietetic education. [PDF]
J Hum Nutr DietAbstract Background Dietetics, as an autonomous profession guided by evidence‐based practice, requires a dynamic and adaptable workforce to meet evolving challenges in healthcare, public health nutrition and epidemiological research. This study aimed to explore the opportunities presented by the transition to online education of preparing dietetic ...
Griffin A.
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Multimodal Skills, but Not Motor Skills, Predict Narrative and Expressive Pragmatic Skills in Children With Typical Development and Neurodevelopmental Disorders. [PDF]
Child DevABSTRACT To see whether communicative‐based multimodal skills (compared to non‐communicative motor skills) predicted complex language skills, this study examined the predictive power of multimodal and motor skills on narrative and expressive pragmatic abilities across two groups. Participants were children with typical development (N = 88, Mage = 5.34,
Florit-Pons J +4 more
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Monitoring 21st-Century Real-Time Language Change in Spanish Youth Speech
Languages, 2021 In recent decades, youth language has become one of the preferred research areas in sociolinguistics, not only because of its non-normative nature but mostly because it is recognized as a catalyst for language change.
Linde Roels +2 more
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WEAK AND STRONG ADJECTIVES IN OLD NORSE: AN EXAMINATION OF KONUNGS SKUGGSJÁ [PDF]
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2023 All early Germanic languages distinguish between a weak and a strong adjectival declension. This contrast is traditionally described in terms of definiteness, the strong declension expressing indefinite reference and the weak one definite reference. Such
Terje WAGENER
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The syntactization of kinship in vocative phrases
Glossa, 2022 Current studies point out that vocative phrases encode the social relation between speaker and addressee by the interaction of various means, i.e., prosody, lexical options, morpho-syntactic operations.
VIRGINIA HILL
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Stylistics of Vocative Case Usage in Mathnawi Ma'navi and Daftar-e Haftom [PDF]
مطالعات زبانی و بلاغی, 2021 Among the works attributed to Mowlana, Daftar-e Haftom (the Seventh Book) is more popular and important. The present study was conducted to investigate one of the most common stylistic features found in Mathnawi and Daftar-e Haftom.
Mohammad Shadrooymanesh, Mahnaz Najafi
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Glossa, 2021 This paper focuses on a type of direct address in Sason Arabic that fails to behave like a regular vocative phrase. In particular, unlike regular vocative phrases, this form of address spells out both the speaker and the addressee, and it is conditioned ...
Faruk Akkus, Virginia Hill
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Karakalpak relationship terminology and its reflection in etiquette behavior
Историческая этнология, 2022 Kinship terminology in the traditional culture represents an ethnocultural phenomenon, in which specific features of the stages of the historical development of a certain people are recognized, as well as the forms of social organization that reflect the
Madiyar B. Utebaev
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Spanske vokativer set i et pragmatisk-funktionelt perspektiv
Hermes, 2001 Vocatives have never played a central role in linguistic research in either the field of grammar or in pragmatics. The aim of the present article is to focus on the pragmatic functions of Spanish vocatives in the context of speech acts.
Vibeke Andersen
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