In the United States, racial-ethnic differences on tests of school readiness and academic achievement continue. A complete understanding of the origins of racial-ethnic achievement gaps is still lacking. This article describes social equity theory (SET), which proposes that racial-ethnic achievement gaps originate from two kinds of social process, direct and signal influences, that these two ki...

The possibility of intercomprehension between related languages is a generally accepted fact suggesting that mutual intelligibility is systematic. Of particular interest are the Slavic languages, which are “sufficiently similar and sufficiently different to provide an attractive research laboratory” (Corbett 1998). They exhibit practically all typologically attested means of encoding grammatica...

If a child has a white mother and a black father, then the child is racially . . . what? Presently, on the census form, individuals may declare racial origins by choosing one from among the categories white, black, Native American, Asian/Pacific Islander, and "other." The matter of racial classification involves more than how just the Census Bureau counts racial origin; every government agency ...

Stories about the “sharing economy” are increasingly making the headlines in the media and research. While the sharing economy is booming and attractive, research has found evidence of racial discrimination on these sharing economy platforms. To begin to address this issue, this research in-progress paper proposes a theoretical model to examine the effects of racial similarity and ratings on an...

The Slavic affricate represented by <č> is tacitly or explicitly assumed to be // for all Slavic languages. In this paper I revise the affricate inventories of Polish and Czech, showing that the symbol <č> stands for two different sounds: the postalveolar // in Czech and the retroflex // in Polish. This conclusion is supported by the results of an acoustic study of Polish and Czech aff...

This report presents a conceptual scheme of networking of centres for high-quality research in Slavic lexicography and their language digital resources. The report, produced by the MONDILEX project Consortium, summarizes the studies and analysis, presented at the five open workshops, organised in the framework of the project. The experts’ recommendations on standardisation and integration of Sl...

The aim of the paper is to analyse the statistical regulation of the type token relationship in Slavic parallel texts. Furthermore it is shown that this relationship in parallel texts can be explained due to morphological and typological characteristics. Keyords: type-token relationship, Slavic languages, corpus, parallel texts

The paper documents the procedure of building a new Universal Dependencies (UDv2) treebank for Serbian starting from an existing Croatian UDv1 treebank and taking into account the other Slavic UD annotation guidelines. We describe the automatic and manual annotation procedures, discuss the annotation of Slavicspecific categories (case governing quantifiers, reflexive pronouns, question particle...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of obesity in U.S. has been rising at an alarming rate, particularly among Hispanic, African, and Asian minority groups. This trend is due in part to excessive calorie consumption and sedentary lifestyle. We sought to investigate whether parental origins influence eating behaviors in healthy urban middle school students. METHODS A multiethnic/racial population of stu...

We investigate the effect of high school racial composition, measured as percent of non-Hispanic white students, on trajectories of depressive symptoms from adolescence to early adulthood. We also explore whether the effect of school racial composition varies by respondent race/ethnicity and whether adult socioeconomic status mediates this relationship. We analyzed four waves of data from the N...