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1998-01-01
Mitambo, Mitambo M., Zhang, Shuliang L., Loppnow, Glen R.
A novel four nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-tube holder is described for quantitative Raman and resonance Raman spectroscopy. This cell has advantages over other divided cell designs in producing high precision quantitation and eliminating off-axis errors. Raman spectra were obtained for both...
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A reassessment of the effects of neighborhood density and phonotactic probability on L2 English word learning
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Two groups of participants were formed according to their level of English: high and low proficiency. No differences were found between groups. Although visual preference for three competitors was different in four time windows, supporting the existence of lexical processing in cascade, a...
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2008
Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope, the representation of a particular time and space in an artistic work, is used to explore connections between Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery, 1908) and Elijah of Buxton (2007). Written a century apart, these novels both feature an eleven-year-old protagonist...
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Contributions and challenges of cross-national comparative research in migration, ethnicity and health: insights from a preliminary study of maternal health in Germany, Canada and the UK
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Friedrich, J., Reime, B., O'Brien, B., Gerrish, K., Bharj, K., Higginbottom, G.M.A., Foster, C., Chowbey, P., Mumtaz, Z., Salway, S.
Background: Public health researchers are increasingly encouraged to establish international collaborations and to undertake cross-national comparative studies. To-date relatively few such studies have addressed migration, ethnicity and health, but their number is growing. While it is clear that...
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Crosslinguistic transfer in the acquisition of compound words in Persian-English bilinguals
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Foroodi-Nejad, F., Paradis, J.
Crosslinguistic transfer in bilingual language acquisition has been widely reported in various linguistic domains (e.g., D¨opke, 1998; Nicoladis, 1999; Paradis, 2001). In this study we examined structural overlap (D¨opke, 2000; M¨uller and Hulk, 2001) and dominance (Yip and Matthews, 2000) as...
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Early emergence of structural constraints on code-mixing: evidence from French-English bilingual children
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Genesee, F., Nicoladis, E., Paradis, J.
Does young bilingual children's code-mixing obey the same structural constraints as bilingual adults' code-mixing? The present study addresses this question using code-mixing data from 15 French±English bilingual children ®lmed in conversation with both parents at six-month intervals from the age...
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Gardiens de la fragilité Bibliothèques publiques, héritage immatériel et diversité culturelle
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Civallero, Edgardo, Lacroix, Denis
This paper proposes a review of definitions, regulations and international recommendations regarding, on one hand, to heritage, identity and cultural diversity and its protection, and, on the other hand, to public libraries. The comparative analysis of these texts reinforce the importance of the...
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Subject realization and crosslinguistic interference in the bilingual acquisition of Spanish and English: what is the role of the input?
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This study investigated whether crosslinguistic interference occurs in the domain of subject realization in Spanish in a bilingual acquisition context. We were also interested in exploring whether the source of the interference is due to child-internal crosslanguage contact between English and...
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1992
In this article, the author challenges the tendency in common law Canada to conflate the distinction between State and society. Following the analysis of Kenneth Dyson, the author contends that the State occupies a distinct sphere produced by or contained in the interconstitutive relationship of...
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When is a preposition a linking element?ilingual children's acquisition of French compound nouns
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French is traditionally considered a non-compounding language because Speakers prefer to use lexical forms such äs NPN instead of N-N compounds. However, the preposition in these French NPNs shares similarities with meaningless linking elements in compounds in other languages. It is therefore...