... and English at the expense ofthe other languages that exist in the country, the adult language program in Botswana maintains the hegemony and the gap between the poor and the rich, the major and ... others (2000:334) is whereby the first languageofthe learner is removed from the educational environment This may accompany a language shift in a community from the primary language to another ... improve the quality of life ofthe poor and rural people adult education programs should include as one of its components the observation and imitation ofthe artisans and other skilled persons in the...
... views ofthe goal oflanguage teaching, the goal ofthe native speaker and the goal of a proficiency level "A second language learner may attain native 39 speaker levels of proficiency and therefore ... given in the textbooks Also, they are not aware of whether these tasks are effective for them or not Nevertheless, they express their desire for some types oflanguage activities that they have ... chose the research methods for the following reasons Firstly, the study employs the questionnaires to gather and describe the viewpoints of both the teachers and the students on the necessity of...
... feature is the log ofthe “figure of merit” used to guide search in the noisy channel model when it is producing the 25-best list for the reranker The log figure of merit is the sum ofthe log language ... we use 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 ... training data The noisy channel and language model features consist of: LMP: features indicating the probabilities ofthe underlying fluent sentences under thelanguage models, as discussed in the previous...
... with the palate ofthe tongue and the back ofthe alveolar ridge 17 Velars/k, g, ŋ/ are thesounds made with the back ofthe tongue and the soft palate Glottal /h/ is made at the epiglottis Retroflex ... thesounds made with the tip ofthe tongue and the back ofthe alveolar *The manners of articulations: Stops / plosives: /p-b/, /t-d/, /k-g/ Stops are thesounds in the production of speech The ... with the tip ofthe tongue and the upper front teeth The tip ofthe tongue nearly touches the upper front teeth Alveolar /t, d, n, l, s-z/ are the sound made with the tip ofthe tongue and the...
... are plans to form shortly a working committee of HAS, for the purpose of theoretically co-ordinating all ofthe Hungarian work in MT and mathematical linguistics György Szépe November, 1962 ... addition, there are many persons, some of whom are not associated directly with the above-mentioned groups, who are working on related problems There are plans to form shortly a working committee of ... seminar in quantitative linguistics The prospect is 32 that this group will form an official liaison with HAS (4) Technical University of Budapest, Institute of Languages Includes a group, headed...
... outside the context of an utterance The selection of closed-class items, therefore, comes as a result ofthe use ofthe various control heuristics that guide the process of generation In other words, ... along the lines of McDonald and Pustejovsky, 1985a) To illustrate the knowledge that bears upon the choice of an open-class lexicM item, let us trace the process of lexicai selection of one ofthe ... other;, (I) the intended perspective ofthe situation, (2) the emphasis of one activity rather than another, (3) the focus being on a particular individual, and (4) previous lexicalizationsof the concept...
... in the later section, in Latin America) except insofar as this concerns the role of language. 5 In terms ofthe history ofthe Spanish language, the periods prior to the Roman conquest ofthe ... influential in a further part ofthe nation-building project as the basis for the teaching ofthelanguage Indeed another highly important aspect ofthe now deliberate planning ofthe national language ... create them, are the result of modernisation and industrialisation, with the loss ofthe old order, the rise of capitalism, the introduction of vernacular languages and the regionalisation of elites...
... on the basis of correct hypotheses pertaining to the representation of (among other things) the relevant contextual background in the austere format of a collection of co-ordinates Hypotheses of ... verdicts about u But the interface between the system’s theory of meaning and truth, on the one hand, and the treatment of particular instances oflanguage use, on the other, does not only raise ... only on the assumption of appropriate hypotheses about their interface with the world of daily exchanges—hypotheses pertaining to the clause–index pair adequate for the representation of an utterance,...
... and services.) Thus, they the types—have the forceExp of asking questions as part of their content These two examples highlight another point about forceExp , namely the issue of which things encode ... and the nature and content ofthe act itself The issue ofthe truth of P2, i.e what implications this might have, then becomes pressing Speaking of which, I now want to rehearse briefly some of ... instances of) P2, which is the burden ofthe rest ofthe book Declarative sentences are those whose utterance typically has the significance of an assertion, of making a claim Accordingly, there...
... under the axiom of bivalence, the contradictory of an L-proposition P is its negation NOT(P), or ¬P: the truth ofthe one entails the falsity ofthe other, either way To give a trivial example, the ... these limits, there is plenty of room for innovative uncluttering A further reason why logic is important for the study oflanguage lies in the fact that the syntax ofthe formulae ofthe various ... strings of terms, driven only by the well-defined structural properties ofthe expressions in the logical language and the well-defined semantic properties ofthe logical constants 6 The Logic of Language...
... The Origins of Meaning Language in the Light of Evolution James R Hurford The Genesis of Grammar Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva 10 The Origin of Speech Peter F MacNeilage 11 The Prehistory ofLanguage ... generally with the origins and evolution oflanguage appear in The Prehistory ofLanguageThe present volume focuses more speciWcally on the origins oflanguage in Africa Both reXect the authors’ ... in the framework ofthe Origin of Man, Language and Languages program ofthe European Science Foundation Karl Diller is researching the genetic and evolutionary origins of humans and human language...
... “Corrupt” language? Just as there are no primitive languages, there are no “corrupt” languages Languages change, but they not decay 5 ─ ─ Theories oflanguage origin The origin oflanguage ... =>monogenetic: a theory oflanguage origin that all languages originated from a single source For example: Tower of Babel story in Genesis, legend ofthe Toltecs Many modern scholars: The Mother Tongue ... oh-ee-oh-ee; Jap bu-bu 4 .The ‘‘ta-ta’’ hypothesis Charles Darwin Speeching: a sort of mouth pantomime: the organs of speech => imitating the gestures ofthe hand the problem: Human gestures...
... ears Thesoundsof nature not force, so we have to be attentive They can be heard The clicking of a gecko lizard, the patter of rain on the roof, the roar of thunder, the howl ofthe wind, the rustling ... quite the opposite of man-made sounds To hear thesoundsof nature in the midst of man-made sounds, all I have to is to listen without trying Man- made sounds force their presence onto our ears The ... not seem to hear them Perhaps their ears have been conditioned to hear only man-made sounds; the unobtrusive soundsof nature cannot be heard any more But I hear them Thesoundsof nature are sweet...
... part ofthe proof ←: This proof is very much like the one above Definition 1.3.7 The intersection ofthe sets A and B is the set A ∩ B = {x | x ∈ A and x ∈ B} Definition 1.3.8 The difference ofthe ... the circle minus a point to the real line Example 1.3.29 It turns out that most ofthe infinite sets that we meet are either the size ofthe integers or the size ofthe real numbers Consider the ... of all, the small arrow on the left ofthe diagram is pointing to the start state, 1, ofthe machine This is where we ‘input’ strings The circle on the far right with the smaller circle and the...
... understanding ofthe causes of SLI will allow the development of better diagnostic systems and therapies for affected individuals Furthermore, it is clear that the achievement ofthe ultimate goal - the ... serve the acquisition oflanguage Page of Conclusions The past few years have seen exciting progress in the genetics oflanguage impairment The increased know ledge ofthe FOXP2-dependent molecular ... path ways and the inherent difficulties of precisely defining them in the laboratory FOXP2 in the brain The expression of FOXP2 is not limited to the brain but is also seen in several other organs,...
... In the wells of silence And the people bowed and prayed To the neon god they made And the sign flashed out its warning, In the words that it was forming And the sign said, 'The words ofthe ... 'Neath the halo of a street lamp, I turned my collar to the cold and damp When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light That split the night And touched the sound of silence And in the ... words ofthe prophets are written on the subway walls And tenement halls.' And tenement halls.' And whisper'd inin thesoundsof silence And whisper'd thesoundsof silence ...
... “Corrupt” language? Just as there are no primitive languages, there are no “corrupt” languages Languages change, but they not decay 5 ─ ─ Theories oflanguage origin The origin oflanguage ... =>monogenetic: a theory oflanguage origin that all languages originated from a single source For example: Tower of Babel story in Genesis, legend ofthe Toltecs Many modern scholars: The Mother Tongue ... oh-ee-oh-ee; Jap bu-bu 4 .The ‘‘ta-ta’’ hypothesis Charles Darwin Speeching: a sort of mouth pantomime: the organs of speech => imitating the gestures ofthe hand the problem: Human gestures...
... INTRODUCTION This initial part stated the problem and the rationale ofthe study, together with the aims, objectives, the scope ofthe study, and the overview ofthe rest of this research paper Above ... in the virtue ofthe changes in the monarch In the innovation of this new form of prose, there appeared a remarkable number of writers and their works They were coined to emphasize not only the ... expose the cherish love and the theory of „pride‟ and „prejudice‟ – the main themes ofthe novel Amongst the three conversations, the first two would be thoroughly analyzed, for the reason that the...