Children's sociolinguistic evaluations of nice foreigners and mean Americans.

Children's sociolinguistic evaluations of nice foreigners and mean Americans.

Three experiments investigated 5- to 6-year-old monolingual English-speaking American children's sociolinguistic evaluations of others based on their accent (native, foreign) and social actions (nice, mean, neutral). In Experiment 1, children expressed social preferences for native-accented English speakers over foreign-accented speakers, and they judged the native-accented speakers to be "Amer...

Optimal Evaluations for the Sándor–yang Mean by Power Mean

In this paper, we present the best possible upper and lower bounds for the Sándor-Yang mean in terms of the power mean. Mathematics subject classification (2010): 26E60.

The bounded community: Turning foreigners into Americans in twenty-first century L.A

At the turn of the twenty-first century, ‘globalization’ is the order of the day. With international migration bringing the alien ‘other’ from third world to first, and worldwide trade and communications amplifying the feedbacks travelling in the opposite direction, the view that nation-state and society normally converge has waned. Instead, social scientists are looking for new ways to think a...

Style and Sociolinguistic Variation

Mean-Shift Tracking for Surveillance: Evaluations and Enhancements

Mean-shift tracking is a technique for following an object of interest as it moves through a video sequence. It is a gradient ascent approach that models the image region to be tracked by its colour histogram. In this thesis, we apply mean shift in the domain of surveillance in order to track people as they walk through a scene. Our objectives are to evaluate the performance of the technique an...