... is the national language ofthe country (Republic of Botswana 1985:8). So, despite the existence of other local languages, Setswana is the only indigenous language that is used as a medium of ... their languages enable them to participate freely in the economic and social activities of their country, and how can their languages be promoted and developed to meet current needs and standards? ... fighting poverty. The adult education program can thus harness the local languages and indigenous knowledge of the minority and poor people and use them to mobilize the poor and minorities who...
... few other words ei has the sound of i long.In great, break, and steak ea has the sound of a long; in heart and hearth it has the sound of a Italian, and intear and bear it has the sound of a ... reversal of method, the power of custom and time has been too strong, and in the matter of grammar we are still the slaves ofthe ancient world. As for spelling, the irregularities of our language ... c is the same as s, andthe hard sound the same as k. The soft sound of g is the same as j, andthe hard sound is the true sound of g as heard in gone, bug,struggle.Important Rule. C and G...
... “Usually not true of me”, (3) “Somewhat true of me”, (4) “Usually true of me” or (5) “Always true of me”. For the convenience ofthe respondents andthe researcher’s purpose of getting the most accurate ... use. These differences are pronounced in two scales ofthe inventory namely: students’ perceived use of all their mental processes and their satisfaction in their organizing and evaluating their ... to answer the questionnaires andthe low rate of return are also other drawbacks of this method. Being aware of these drawbacks, the researcher took careful steps in carrying out the research...
... feature is the log ofthe “fig-ure of merit” used to guide search in the noisychannel model when it is producing the 25-bestlist for the reranker. The log figure of merit is the sum ofthe log language ... when it is part ofthe reparandum or Iwhen it is part ofthe interregnum.1. CopyFlagsX Y: When there is an exact copyin the input text of length X (1 ≤ X ≤ 3) and the gap between the copies is ... weuse the 19 other folds to construct a language model and then score the utterance in this fold with that language model. The largest widely-available corpus for language modelling is the Web...
... made audible the resonances between the blast of Dada at the end of WWI in Zurich and Berlin, the gust ofthe Situationists on the Rive Gauche in Paris in the 1960s, andthe explosion of Punk Rock ... reduce the imbalances of power between the developer andthe user, and between the rich andthe comparatively poor. However, what the effects of this leveling ofthe playing field will be on other ... part of their education or as part of their professional reputation-building. For them, sharing of code is not only part of their professional advancement, but an integral part ofthe professional...
... given the unfamiliar speaker, and then shifted their attention back and forth between gestures and facial cues seeking the most infor-mative cue according to the content ofthe lecture. The results ... presence of a visual /r/ and /f/ significantly increased664 Language Lea rning Vol. 55, No. 4Conclusion The results ofthe present study suggest the need forfurther investigations ofthe role of ... based on the master’s thesis ofthe first author preparedunder the supervision ofthe second. We thank Jill McKay for herparticipation in the study and Alissa Cohen and Charlene Polio for theircomments...
... 5. The Secretary of Energy andthe Director ofthe Na-tional Science Foundation, working with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy andthe Office of Management and Budget and ... suggests that these impendingdiscoveries may transform our understanding ofthe origin of matter and energy and the ongoing evolution ofthe universe. The limitations ofthe Standard Model are ... understanding of the constituents and properties of materials resulted in an unprecedented array of new products and industrial processes. The discovery ofthe structure and func-tion of DNA...
... by 0.0167 gÆcm)3, from the start of the experiment. By the end ofthe measurement, the thickness had increased by 0.342 nm, the mass hadincreased by 0.10 ngÆmm)2 and the density haddecreased ... interferome-ter, the AnaLight Bio200, which measures the mass, thick-ness and density ofthe protein layer bound to the surface of an optical sensor [35]. The sensing chip used in thesea-Crystallin and ... fluores-cence. The subsequent plateau phase is associated witha decrease in the concentration of small species, or the aggregation and precipitation of fibrils [37]. The kinet-ics of these three stages of...
... of the emergence (and extinction) of languages in one of these runs. In this run, around 10 ofthe initial population converged on a minimal OVS language and 3 others on a VOS language. The ... schema matches the categories ofthe top 2 cells of the Stack, then they are popped from the Stack and the new category formed by applying the rule schema is pushed onto the Stack. The Permutation ... virtue of placing the subject before the object) and this language dominated rapidly and eclipsed all others by cycle 40. In all these runs, the population settled on sub- set languages of low...
... with changes to the weighting of internal and external assessments. X1.2 Paragraph 12 ofthe English Criteria and paragraph 14 oftheofthe English language Criteria are revoked and replaced ... (CCEA), is currently reviewing the GCSEs and GCEs offered there. The rest of this document relates to England only, though we will keep the regulators in other parts ofthe UK informed about our ... meet the requirements ofthe GCSE Qualification Criteria5, the GCSE Subject Criteria for English6 andthe GCSE Subject Criteria for English Language 7, andthe relevant sections of the...
... specimensreveal the crucial point of connection between the head appendages and the shield itself. (The end ofthe appendage opposite to the point of attachmentwith the body the distal, or farthest, ... position ofthe eyes and nozzle, the full sequence of lateral lobes, andthe gills lying above the lobes. The gut runs as a straighttube down the middle ofthe body. Figure 3.25 is a side view and revealsseveral ... source of evidence retains achemical signature of organic activity. Ofthe two common isotopes of carbon,^12C and ^13C, photosynthesis differentially uses the lighter ^12C and therefore raises the...