In this paper, we draw on data from world languages teachers (English, Spanish and French, in particular) to explore and unpack binaries encountered i... [more]
Decades of research has investigated the heterogeneity of English among speakers of various linguistic and cultural backgrounds, but there still remai... [more]
In the last decade it has become standard for students and researchers to be introduced to state-of-the-art numerical software through a problem solving environment (PSE) rather than through the use of scientific libraries callable from a high level langu
Much has been written about digital television. Mainstream reports range from a vague televisual utopia where one need never unplug oneself from the TV ever again to the social realities and practicalities of a consumer driven market. This study examines
Multivariate and single variable analyses were employed to investigate the recovery mode of aphasia in right-handed patients with putaminal hemorrhage on the left side. Speech disturbance was evaluated using the standard language test for aphasia (SLTA) a
In this paper, we address the problem of blindly separating convolutive mixtures of spatially and temporally independent sources. Source densities are modelled as mixtures of Gaussians. We present an EM algorithm to compute Maximum Likelihood estimates of
Arginine:glycine amidinotransferase (AGAT, EC 2.1.4.1) deficiency is a recently recognized autosomal recessive inborn error of creatine biosynthesis, characterized by mental retardation and severe language impairment. We extensively investigated a third 5
The status of interpreters and translators depends on the society in which they belong. Such factors as whether the society is multilingual. monolingual as well as its international standing all impact their status and consequently financial compensation.
The present research sough evidence to either support or refute the claim that simultaneous interpreters are more efficient when decoding/interpreting oral discourse from a foreign language into their mother tongue. The data for the study were collected b
A computer-aided analysis of some 800 sentences taken from English into Korean simultaneous interpretation (ST) revealed that the average ear-voice-span (EVS) is 3 seconds. Statistical analysis showed that speaker variables, including the length of origin
Profile/vase organization in cognitive linguistics emphasizes a hierarchy of salience imposed on construal by usage events of some concept. Shift in terms of profile/base alignment is highly likely to occur in a cross-linguistic/cultural context. Granted
Following an earlier study by the same author on professional translators, which appeared in Target 2000 (12:1 127-149), this article reports on an empirical study, based on both quantitative and qualitative data, on the learning needs of translation stud
This article interprets the career of the Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer,winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978, in English translation. Involved is an understanding of the emotional and linguistic impact of the Haskala or Jewish Enlighten
BACKGROUND. The economic evaluation of health interventions for older people is complicated by the difficulty in obtaining selfreports of quality of life from persons with cognitive impairments, physical impairments, or both. OBJECTIVES. Using the EQ-51)
A comparison of the lexical characteristics of 88 auditory misperceptions (i.e., slips of the ear) showed no difference in word-frequency, neighborhood density, and neighborhood frequency between the actual and the perceived utterances. Another comparison
This study investigated how English and Japanese speakers syllabify two-syllable English words and nonwords with single intervocalic consonants. In oral tasks, participants inserted a pause between two parts of English words and nonwords. In written tasks
This paper reports the results of an empirical analysis of earnings dynamics in the Canadian labour market based on earnings data based drawn from tax returns between 1982 and 1994. Individuals' movements up and down quintiles of the earnings distributio