Recently work on the grammar of spoken English has advanced through the use of large, general, and varied corpora of the language, including corpora of spoken discourse. Here I review the research that has been emerging from the availability of such corpora, much of it emphasizing the need for new ways of conceptualizing spoken grammar, to replace the traditional reliance on grammatical models ...

Inflammation of the myocardium may occur in association with a wide variety of clinical conditions and occasionally occurs as an apparently isolated disorder without demonstrable cause. In some cases of isolated myocarditis, giant cells form part of the inflammatory reaction and the lesion has then been described as "isolated giant cell myocarditis." Giant cell myocardial lesions may occur, of ...

A knowledge of birth order can be contributory to the evaluation of hereditary and environmental factors in disease. There is, however, no agreement as to whether a characteristic birth order pattern exists in epilepsy. Thus Brain (1956) and Lennox (1960) have written respectively 'epilepsy is relatively commoner among first born children than among later members of the family' and 'birth order...

A myriad of Ngugi’s readers may presuppose that the literary career this celebrated African writer began at University. Albeit it was Makerere he triumphantly wrote and subsequently published his first second novels, Weep Not Child The River Between for which reason reveals in own words “I started writing 1960. I then a student University College” (Homecoming: 47), Lindfords, begun specifically...

We cherish Darwin for we owe to him our enlightened view of the nature of living things; our civilization would be pitifully immature without the intellectual revolution led by Darwin, even if we were equally well off economically without it. H. J. Muller (1960), in celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species, remarked that it can justly be considered as th...

BACKGROUND The language faculty is probably the most distinctive feature of our species, and endows us with a unique ability to exchange highly structured information. In written language, information is encoded by the concatenation of basic symbols under grammatical and semantic constraints. As is also the case in other natural information carriers, the resulting symbolic sequences show a deli...

Most deaf children and adults struggle to read, but some deaf individuals do become highly proficient readers. There is disagreement about the specific causes of reading difficulty in the deaf population, and consequently, disagreement about the effectiveness of different strategies for teaching reading to deaf children. Much of the disagreement surrounds the question of whether deaf children r...