Recent research has explored the relationships between family and cultural issues, claiming attention on the need to consider and evaluate cultural values and beliefs as useful factors to promote positive family adjustment and parenting outcomes (Cardoso and Thompson, 2010; Taylor et al., 2012). This paper explored self-perception of parental role, family maladjustment and cultural beliefs in a...

The challenge feminist scholarship posed to family studies has been largely met through the incorporation of research on gender dynamics within families and intersectional differences among them. Despite growing attention to gender as performance and power in more diverse families, the more difficult work of understanding the dynamics of change among institutions including the family and using ...

A biometrical genetical analysis of IgG, IgM, and IgA levels in 134 sets of twins is reported. High heritabilities, around .8, are found for all three immunoglobulin levels, and possible reasons for lower heritabilities found in family studies are discussed. There is evidence for genetical dominance tending to decrease IgM and IgA levels, but there is no evidence for the importance of family en...

This paper aims to provide a sociolinguistic investigation of gendered identities and practices among some third-generation Jordanian Turks. It researches into language proficiency, use, identity Turks both sexes. A mixed methods approach was chosen, drawing upon combination quantitative qualitative data captured through two methods: questionnaires semi-structured interviews. The analysed in th...

OBJECTIVE Several components of event-related potentials--P50 suppression, P300 amplitude and latency, and mismatch negativity--have been proposed as potential endophenotypes for schizophrenia on the basis of family studies. The present study used a twin design to estimate the extent of genetic overlap between these indices and the liability to schizophrenia. METHOD The authors measured misma...

prevention efforts [1]. In this sample of Greenland Inuit where both HIV and undernutrition remain uncommon, the risk of developing TB was markedly higher in persons with co-existing diabetes than in persons without. The very high risk associated with diabetes suggests potential reduction in the Greenland TB incidence rates through incorporating diabetes control and prevention in TB prevention ...

The lexical items like and well can serve as discourse markers (DMs), but can also play numerous other roles, such as verb or adverb. Identifying the occurrences that function as DMs is an important step for language understanding by computers. In this study, automatic classifiers using lexical, prosodic/positional and sociolinguistic features are trained over transcribed dialogues, manually an...

This paper addresses issues related to the elicitation and encoding of demographic, situational and attitudinal metadata for sociolinguistic research with an eye toward standardization to facilitate data sharing. The discussion results from a series of workshops that have recently taken place at the NWAV and LSA conferences. These discussions have focused principally on the granularity of the m...

Does knowledge of sociolinguistic variation influence how we perceive and understand speech coming from different kinds of people? A series of experiments investigated whether listeners have knowledge about t/d deletion, a sociolinguistic variable, and, if so, whether this knowledge influences their language comprehension. Experiment 1 investigated listeners’ knowledge of the social correlates ...