Increments in Navajo conversation

Feedback relevance spaces: The organisation of increments in conversation

Feedback such as backchannels and clarification requests can occur subsententially, demonstrating the incremental nature of grounding in dialogue. However, although such feedback can occur at any point within an utterance, it typically does not do so, tending to occur at feedback relevance spaces (FRSs). We provide a low-level, semantic processing model of where feedback ought to be licensed. T...

Diabetes in Navajo Youth

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence and incidence of diabetes, clinical characteristics, and risk factors for chronic complications among Navajo youth, using data collected by the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study (SEARCH study). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The SEARCH study identified all prevalent cases of diabetes in 2001 and all incident cases in 2002-2005 among Navajo youth. We estimate...

Navajo childbirth in transition.

For the Navajo Indians, the transition from home-centered childbearing practices based on religious ritual to biomedically directed childbirth in hospitals was completed over a relatively short time in the middle decades of this century. For Anglo-American society, the acceptance of medically oriented childbirth occurred during an equally short period earlier in the century. The transition was ...

Comparison of Corriedale x Navajo and Romney x Navajo crosses.

Navajo Windtalkers

Using Navajo for cryptography is a very powerful tool due to the complex nature of the language. Up until the 1930’s The Navajo Languages had remained unwritten. It was not until 1939 that a standardized alphabet was created. The language also did not have any symbols. In Navajo, only four vowels exist: A, E, I, O, but each of these can have up to 10 different intonations. A word could change i...