background: the purpose of this study was to assess the energy and nutritional intakes of female aerobic athletes in two different social - economic classes.   methods: the subjects were 99 female aerobic athletes aged between 15 to 50 years old. the dietary and energy intakes were based on 2 day 24 hours food recall. the demographic details were assessed by anthropometric measurements includin...

The extensive research done on the interrelationship between different social factors such as social class, gender and age and different linguistic variables has shown that these factors have important effects on the way language is used. Among these factors a special importance can be placed on age due to the role it plays in revealing different patterns of language use, such as the age-gradin...

In a large social media corpus (2.9 million tokens), we analyze Flemish adolescents’ non-standard writing practices and look for correlations with the teenagers’ social class. Three different aspects of adolescents’ social background are included: educational track, parental profession, and home language. Since the data reveal that these parameters are highly correlated, we combine them into on...

today in multilingual contexts, many parents prefer to rear their children in the dominant language rather than in their mother tongue. this phenomenon is widespread among native speakers of kalhuri dialect of the kurdish language in the multilingual context of iran, too. nevertheless, some studies have evidenced the privilege of bilinguals in learning an additional language though some others ...