This study examined four universal operating principles for first language acquisition proposed by Slobin (1973) and MacWhinney (1978). The applicability of these principles to second-language acquisition was tested by teaching children and adults a miniature linguistic system. The results suggested that the four principles played a major role in the learning of the system by 5-to 7-year-olds b...

The purpose of this study was to determine how educational leaders interpret job applications from international teachers who are planning repatriate. Ten rural and urban the Canadian province Manitoba were presented with three different fictitious cases screen analyze for shortlisting purposes. findings suggest that need clearly communicate their work experiences explain acquired intercultural...

Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) is believed to contribute educational equality serve social inclusion democracy. Segregation in day-care centres counteracts these aims but has hardly been researched Germany so far. We describe ethnic/linguistic segregation at different regional levels (federal states as well East West more generally) using data from the Quality Study Socio-Economic Pa...

The Effect of Linguistic Proximity on the Occupational Assimilation of Immigrant Men in Canada* This paper contributes to the analysis of the integration of immigrants in the Canadian labour market by focusing in two relatively new dimensions. We combine the large samples of the restricted version of the Canadian Census (1991-2006) with both a new measure of linguistic proximity of the immigran...

What does language acquisition look like when it begins for the first time in adolescence? This question is difficult to answer because virtually all hearing children are exposed to spoken language from birth. Unlike the acquisition of spoken languages, however, the acquisition of signed languages is frequently delayed. In the USA, about 90% of deaf children are born to hearing parents who do n...

In a previous report we used the Linked Dipole Chain model unintegrated gluon densities to investigate the uncertainties in the predictions for central exclusive production of scalars at hadron colliders. Here we expand this investigation by also looking at other parameterizations of the unintegrated gluon density, and look in more detail on the behavior of these at small k⊥. We confirm our con...

Seeing others is a central metaphor in James Cameron’s film Avatar, used as a means to express empathy and empathic bonding throughout the film, both between humans and the Na’vi, and between the Na’vi and the animals that inhabit their world. Empathy entails an ability to see and feel the world from another’s perspective—feeling with rather than feeling for. Jake Sully’s shifting and boundary-...

This paper describes ongoing efforts at Linguistic Data Consortium to create shared evaluation resources for improved speech-to-text technology. The DARPA EARS Program (Effective, Affordable, Reusable Speech-to-Text) is focused on enabling core STT technology to produce rich, highly accurate output in a range of languages and speaking styles. The aggressive EARS program goals motivate new appro...

In this position paper we discuss some of the experiences we made in describing lexical data using representation formalisms that are compatible for the publication of such data in the Linked Data framework. While we see a huge potential in the emerging Linguistic Linked Open Data, also supporting the publication of less-resourced language data on the same platform as for mainstream languages, ...