Linguistics Article Reviews Samples For Students

In this article, the unique and specific patterns of cultural and genetic diversities of the Native Americans have been identified and this information is used to understand geographic dispersion patterns as well as the relationship between these people. Of these, the Tupi and Je speaker dispersions are the most important ones. Currently a lot of people speak the stock of these two languages. Although the Tupi expansion can be compared to Bantu migration in Africa, very little is known about this event as compared to others. The Je-speaker’s expansion has an equal and even deeper gaps and this study ...

Discussion 2

This article seeks to provide solutions to three specific issues concerning the application of information technology in enterprises as they relate to ISCA (Information system of control and auditing). These issues include maintenance of information strategy goals and businesses objectives, efficient resource utilization and control of information technology related risks. The authors propose the improvement of IT governance to address these issues. The IT governance needs to include responsibilities of Chief information officer and chief financial officer clearly defined and ensure that overall planning is detailed.

Discussion 3

This paper explores the issue of inaccurate data in relational databases. Problems of ...

Introduction of the Research

Sign languages have two noticeably distinct types of morphological structure, one is sequential, and the other is simultaneous. Other than this there are two common sign languages being used, American and Israeli. Both of the languages fall in simultaneous morphology and are very similar, but when it comes to sequential morphology they differ, and are also derivational. There are different types of inflectional morphology that are discussed briefly in the paper. This research was also done to bring in the similarities between sign language and spoken languages all along; in 1970s and 1980s which are the starting days of ...

CDC Trends and Analysis

The health of Americans requires improvement in various areas and Healthy People 2020 focuses on improving the Health of Americans by:

- Identifying and prioritizing health improvement opportunities through research and evaluation
- Bringing together all relevant stakeholders including communities for a collaborative effort
- Empowering people for informed decision making (Healthy People 2012)

Improvement Suggestions

Cultural and linguistic competency among healthcare providers is highlighted as one key factor affecting the health of a population (Perez and Luquis, 2008). Consequently, Healthy People should list cultural and linguistic competency among healthcare providers as a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) that will help improve the nation’s health through reduction of health disparity. This should be followed by continued effort to increase ...

Cultural and linguistic diversity is slowly but surely being wiped out by the influence of the western culture. The western influence continues to break the social fabric of many societies in the world. This is especially true for minority communities which speak minority languages and have no capacity to subdue this emerging trend. There is distribution of literary works in the global arena essentially transcending the country where they originate. Today readers have unlimited access to an array of literary works from all corners of the world in outstanding translations and a lively debate has come up regarding both political ...

Combinatorial communication is a process in which two (or more) holistic signals combine to produce different signals that have a different result than the sum of the results of the component signal. These are highly evident in humans and a little less in species of some non- human primates that scientists suggest that they are due to evolution of human language. The studies were carried out using the same methods as those of primate species because; combinatorial communication has been reported in communication systems of these species. The results led researchers to the assumption that the combinations seen in non-human primates are ...

The article, “Predicting Human Brain Activity Associated with the Meanings of Nouns” was written by Tom M. Mitchel, Svetlana V. Shinkareva and their five associates. The article was published in Science in May 2008. It outlined a computational program that predicted which parts of the brain were stimulated and would respond to certain words and images, or certain stimuli. I found several concepts of the article very interesting. For example, the basis of the article’s studies was founded on creating a computational framework subject to linguistics. In layman terms, a grid of the mind was drawn up, based on nouns. Scientists ...

Children who hear two distinct languages in their environment are able to acquire the knowledge of both languages. This is a process known as Bilingual First Language Acquisition, and it occurs from a child’s birth. This is a concept that has been analyzed by various authors in their works.
According to De Houwer (2009), instead of acquiring a single language, such children are exposed to two first languages in their first six years. This is especially due to the fact that early years language acquisition occurs naturally; it has no influence from formal instruction thus focuses solely on the child’s ...

Under the term bilingualism it is understood that educational process is presented in several languages. As a rule, two languages are used at class. To some extend such practice is rather widespread. However, not each use of two languages can be named a bilingual education. Technically speaking, it is possible to say that any educational system, which uses two languages, is bilingual. However, in practice, a lot depends on the proficiency of the language usage. True bilingual programs make use of both languages at the same level of proficiency.
Bilingual education is an extremely controversial issue. At the time when in ...

“The Two Languages” is chapter 1 in Part I of book “Making Your Own Days” written by Kenneth Koch essentially “to say some clear and interesting things about poetry. The term “The Two Languages” is a metaphor for poetry identifying poetic language as its own language within language it’s written. While regarding poetry as a mysterious being that no one has quite been able to explain where and how it comes from, author Kenneth Koch invokes the ancient Greeks calling the Muse the source of poetry and others ascribing it to coming from some residually creative place in an unconscious ...

Multicultural Australia

In his article “A Linguist’s Vision for Multicultural Australia”, Professor Michael Clyne comments upon the Australian Government’s social inclusion policies, observing that they are ambiguous and confuse when it comes to fairly representing the Australian minorities in the society. Clyne discusses about Howard’s and Rudd’s governmental plans for social inclusion, which did not contain a multicultural dimension, references to including the languages of minorities in schools and concrete plans of sharing the minorities’ values and traditions throughout Australian society.
The author perceives the problem of social inclusion beyond its immediate meaning of supporting the vulnerable ...

1. The Sapir-Whorf theory of language essentially argues that language is culturally-conditioned, and so the way you speak depends on your environment and your experiences and the traditions of your culture. Anthropologists and linguists are particularly interested in the languages of remote and self-contained tribes people because their lack of contact with the developing world allows the study of language at an earlier evolutionary stage of development. However, there are signs that even in European languages culture and background may play a part in the way that some languages perceive the world around them. Motluck (36) examines the gender of ...

Reflections to journal articles

Language, language acquisition and language teaching are areas of interest that have engaged the attention of linguists, psychologists and educationists for centuries. Zest in research in these areas continues with new issues being raised as a consequence of development in technology and means of communication. While experts continue to discuss first and second language acquisition, the truth is that it is difficult to find an individual who uses one pure language. Increasing contacts between language communities in a global scenario have resulted in bilingualism and multilingualism. According to Kumar and Yunus, “No society speaks just ‘a language’ that is ‘pure’ in its ...

The Relationship Between Reading Skills in Early English as a Foreign Language and Hungarian as a First Language:

Marianne Nikolov and Benö Csapó’s paper, The Relationship Between Reading Skills in Early English as a Foreign Language and Hungarian as a First Language, seeks to discover how Hungarian school children’s reading skills in English as their second language is affected by their proficiency in their first language as well as elements of the second language. The authors make use of two studies to explore this. The first study tests sixth and eighth graders’ reading proficiency in both Hungarian (L1) and English (L2). ...

The basic premise of Perani et al.’s paper is to use brain imaging PET scans to investigate what areas of the brain are activated in a person speaking his native language (L1) versus the areas of the brain activated by a person speaking a second language (L2). Additionally, the researchers seek to investigate whether the age of L2 acquisition affect “patterns of acquision” within the brain, or whether language proficiency has more affect over the activated areas within the brain (Perani et al. 1998, p. 1841).

The introduction also offers other areas for which this research is useful, for example, “language ...

Research Question

At what age can people differentiate sounds based on phonetic category even when such distinctions are not present in their native language? At what age does speech perception become modified?

Summary

Werker and Tees conduct experiments to determine at what age people stop differentiating sounds of different phonetic categories without the influence of their native languages. Different researchers have shown that infants can differentiate a set of phonetic sounds (Werker and Tees 49). Their ability to do this is said to reduce when they are exposed to certain linguistic experiences. It is different for adults; they perceive only the sounds that ...

Questions

Institutions
Question 1
According to Joan Scott, gender is defined as “a constitutive element of social relationships based on perceived differences between the sexes and a primary way of signifying relationships of power.” On the other hand, Goffman claims that, “If gender be defined as the culturally established correlates of sex (whether in consequence of biology or learning), then gender display refers to conventionalized portrayals of these correlates. “In Scott context, biology is excluded the explanation of gender and the perception of individuals put into consideration. One is perceived a woman when she tends to behave and speak in an ...

Introduction

Globalization forms a significant issue in the hospitality industry. Hotels franchises, for instance, may choose to expand into foreign markets. However, globalization may have both negative and positive effects on the hospitality industry. Factors such weather, cultural differences and economic factors have a considerable influence on the globalization in the hospitality industry. Tourism is a significant part of the hospitality industry. Globalization makes it possible for companies in the hospitality industry to expand their operations. This implies that the number of customers for the company increases. Consequently, the company enjoys more business hence can be able to make more profit (Frink, 2009). ...

Institutional

Introduction
As Ford, Stuart and Vakil (2014) have clearly noted in their article Culturally Responsive Teaching in the 21st Century Inclusive Classroom, the main challenge that faces public schools in the US involves the ever increasing need to meet the exceptional or special needs of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students. That is, the need to have a socially or culturally inclusive classroom in light of the diverse nature of the US population is becoming more relevant than ever before. This, they note, is informed also by the fact that there exists a strong link between learning and culture. ...

Article Review

Article Review

World Summit. The act refers to the moral responsibility that states have to intervene in another country’s affairs if substantial human rights concerns, such as genocide, are taking place. Despite the adoption of R2P, its implementation is something that has been debated upon the UN and other nations. The present research examines Alex Bellamy’s article “Realizing the responsibility to protect” he works towards moving from “words to deeds” in relation to the R2P. Specifically, Bellamy’s background is examined, his methodology in making his claims is considered, his main points are analyzed, and opinions are ...

The current study seeks to investigate teachers and students perceptions on the cultural dimension of language teaching and learning and some of the classroom practices present. The research approach is shaped by constructivism, which mainly asserts that reality is socially constructed. The research focuses on the way culture shapes the different aspects of teaching language in the classroom.
The epistemology of the study takes an objectivist approach with the analyzing and provision of data, which is tabulated in tables. The study assumes that culture affects or influences the perceptions of classroom practices by teachers and affects the priorities ...

The website Math is Fun.com is authentic; the features itself are simple yet attractive. It started on April 19, 2000; it is their 13 years of helping people learn especially students and children. The site covers the full kindergarten to K12. It has a teachers’ page to inspire their student to visit the site for any suggestions and recommendations. Math is Fun updates their featured topic of the month, and forum is open for any feedbacks, new ideas and comments. It shows the real view of what really means about Math is Fun. The simple minimal features added the clarity ...

A. Pricing for International Markets 5

B. International Marketing Channels 6
C. Products and Services for Customers 8
D. Cultural Dynamics in Assessing Global Markets 10
4.0 Summary and Opinions of Influential Cultural Factors 11
5.0 Conclusion 13 Work Sited 15

Highlighted Points

The purposes of practicing and aiming for international marketing are to understand how and why:
- cultural diversity has been known to influence international marketing in pricing and contractual agreements
- analyzing the roots of culture to integrate it into a global marketing plan enhances coherent business strategies for successful worldwide marketing
- the references listed at the ...

English Composition – Reading Response Paper

There are literally thousands of languages that are being spoken in the world today. Each of course, is unique in their own way; each language has its own phonation, sound, rhymes and other distinct characteristics, but what is common among people who practice any one or two of the thousands of speakable languages available is that they all have a term that may be used to describe marriage or the religious and civil process of unifying two individuals who want to share the rest of their lives with one another. Society did not allow thinking outside the box when it ...

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Aaron Devor, Reflection on Becoming Members of Society
Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meanings of Gender is an article written by Aaron Devor. The author was born a female but chose to adopt the name Aaron and live as a man and discuss the challenges he faced in this process.
In this article Devor talks about gender identity and the differences between men and women. He believes that gender identity is not all about physical attributes. Gender identity is a lifelong process, and at some point, people and especially children should be able to define or state their ...

A second language can be any language that is acquired by an individual after the acquisition of the mother’s language which is believed to be the first language regardless of where one is born. This type of language can be regarded as an auxiliary language to a person. In most cases, such language can be used after a thorough practice resulting from learning on acquiring it. It can be as a result of movement from one place to another or through a continuous interaction with the people who use that same language adapted by another individual. In most cases, if a person can ...

This paper mainly highlights on the use of cinema sound as text in the production of films. It aids in the multi-dimensional understanding of the image analysis and sound production analysis; in the cinema films. The article places interest on the extended use and importance of borrowed instrumental music in the creation of cinema sound. The usage of symphony sounds borrowed but highly contrasted from instrumental music showcase the difference in the definition of film sounds and music in overall. All of that is aimed at reviewing and analyzing the physical phenomenon called sound.
In this perspective, in ...

‘Boys’ and Girls’ Brains are Different: Gender Differnce In Language Appear Biological.’ This is the title of the article that this text gains insight on. It is a one paged article written by Burman Douglas. D. The title serves as the hypothesis as well as it attempts to seek inquiry on the biological state of the brains of the female gender and that of the male’s. The author Burman Douglas. D is the primary author of the book ‘Sex Difference in Neural Processing of Language Among Children’, a book that he wrote in collaboration with Tai Bitan and James Booth ...

The study aims to address and evaluate the influence of age on second-language acquisition. It revealed the critical period hypothesis for the second language (L2) acquisition. According to Flege, Munro and Mackay, in examining the immigrant populations, participants’ age of arrival (AOA) in the host country forms a very vital and important part. AOA is an important factor or determinant to gauge the degree of foreign accent as well as degree of accuracy in the pronunciation of L2 and the study intents to confirm this widely accepted belief.

The observation of age effect on the L2 performance of individuals forms ...