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A study of indigenous English speakers in the standard English classroom

by Sterzuk, Andrea
Published 2003

An Examination of Selected Vowel Structures of Three Generations of Native Appalachian English Speakers

by Richards, Melinda L.
Published 2001

Morphological awareness in bilingual Inuktitut-English speakers from the perspective of relational spreading

by Jenni, Barbara
Published 2011

Bilingual Code-Switching in a Swedish Context : A study of three Swedish-Arabic and three Swedish-English speakers

by Younes, Amena
Published 2018

Parliament that has inherited its power from the monarch, and in the body of the monarch itself which contains the promises of both God and people. Today, law also finds its sources in the legislative acts of the European Community and the decisions of the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights (religion will often refer to a sacred text). All our understanding is reducible to the ability to comprehend the expansiveness and limits of our language and the cultural boundedness of our language. It was Edward Sapir who most poignantly maintained that the limits of our language are the limits of our world. Over the years of socialisation, ‘ways of seeing’ are developed that are socially constructed by the limits of a particular language. Yet, as language is all around, there is a temptation to see it as a neutral tool, a mirror that tells it ‘like it is’. All language does is to give someone else’s interpretation of their belief, or their experience. It is no more, and no less, than a guide to social reality. What is seen as, or believed to be, the real world may be no more than the language habits of the group. It is, therefore, often a biased view. Languages also have their limits: if language does not have a word for something or some concept then that ‘something’ will not be seen nor that ‘concept’ thought. All language is, however, responsive to what linguists call the ‘felt needs’ of its speakers. Indeed, it is more likely that not only are thoughts expressed in words but that thoughts themselves are shaped by language. An example of felt needs can be given from the vocabulary of weather. Although the English are often said to enjoy talking about the weather, for many decades our essentially mild climate has provided us with the need for only one word for ‘snow’ (that word is ‘snow’!). In English there are several words for cold, but only one word for ice. By contrast, the Aztecs living in the tropics have only one word to cover ‘snow’, ‘ice’ and ‘cold’ as separate words were unlikely to be used. As English speakers, it is impossible to state that ‘cold’ is synonymous with snow. Coldness is a...

Published 2012

Reaching Spanish-speaking smokers online: a 10-year worldwide research program

by Ricardo Felipe Muñoz, Ken Chen, Eduardo Liniers Bunge, Julia Isabela Bravin, Elizabeth Annelly Shaughnessy, Eliseo Joaquín Pérez-Stable
Published 2014

Language and geographical location influence the incidence of chronic cough in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging

by Satia, Imran, Mayhew, Alexandra J., Sohel, Nazmul, Kurmi, Om, Killian, Kieran J., O'Connell, Megan E., O'Byrne, Paul M., Raina, Parminder
Published in ERJ Open Research (2022)

Speech Technology for Everyone: Automatic Speech Recognition for Non-Native English with Transfer Learning

by Shibano, Toshiko, Zhang, Xinyi, Li, Mia Taige, Cho, Haejin, Sullivan, Peter, Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad
Published 2021

Multimedia Learning in a Second Language: A Cognitive Load Perspective

by Mayer, Richard E., Lee, Hyunjeong, Peebles, Alanna
Published in Applied Cognitive Psychology (2014)

Preterm birth in the Inuit and First Nations populations of Québec, Canada, 1981–2008

by Nathalie Auger, Mélanie Fon Sing, Alison L. Park, Ernest Lo, Normand Trempe, Zhong-Cheng Luo
Published in International Journal of Circumpolar Health (2012)

Speech Technology for Everyone: Automatic Speech Recognition for Non-Native English with Transfer Learning

by Shibano, Toshiko, Zhang, Xinyi, Li, Mia Taige, Cho, Haejin, Sullivan, Peter, Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad
Published 2021

Learn Sakha Android App Development

Published 2016

The Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Australian Women’s Capacity to Access and Understand Health Information: A Secondary Analysis of the 2022 National Women’s Health Sur...

by Neve Davison, Karin Stanzel, Karin Hammarberg
Published in Healthcare (2024)

Alaska Justice Forum

by Morrow, Phyllis, Bureau of Justice Statistics
Published 1993

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On saying /aw/ in Victoria

by Davison, John
Published 1987

Ancestral languages and (imagined) creolization ...

by Woodbury, Anthony C.
Published 2014

First on the Antarctic Continent

by Borchgrevink, C. E.
Published 2014

The use of multimedia language laboratory in teaching English phonetics at the university

by Kvasyuk, E.N., Putistina, O.V., Savateeva, O.V.
Published 2021

Community Voices: The Postville Oral History Project Recording with Pat Zidlicky

by Zidlicky, Pat
Published 2014