Language Adapts to Environment: Sonority and Temperature

Sonority substitutions in language disorders

In this paper we consider a widely attested process: sonority substitutions whereby sounds of a certain sonority class change into sounds of another sonority class. These sonority substitutions concern, for example, liquids (/l,r/) changing into glides (/j,w/). The target word groen ‘green’ may be realized by an aphasic speaker as [xjUn] or [xwUn]. We will discuss these sonority substitutions i...

‏‎a comparative study of language learning strategies employmed by bilinguals and monolinguals with reference to attitudes and motivation‎‏

هدف از این تحقیق بررسی برخی عوامل ادراکی واحساسی یعنی استفاده از شیوه های یادگیری زبان ، انگیزه ها ونگرش نسبت به زبان انگلیسی در رابطه با زمینه زبانی زبان آموزان می باشد. هدف بررسی این نکته بود که آیا اختلافی چشمگیر میان زبان آموزان دو زبانه و تک زبانه در میزان استفاده از شیوه های یادگیری زبان ، انگیزه ها نگرش و سطح مهارت زبانی وجود دارد. همچنین سعی شد تا بهترین و موثرترین عوامل پیش بینی کننده ...

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

Learning through Natural Language Dialogue that Adapts to the Cognitive and Affective States of the Learner

How a Circadian Clock Adapts to Seasonal Decreases in Temperature and Day Length

We show that a thermosensitive splicing event in the 3' untranslated region of the mRNA from the period (per) gene plays an important role in how a circadian clock in Drosophila adapts to seasonally cold days (low temperatures and short day lengths). The enhanced splicing of this intron at low temperatures advances the steady state phases of the per mRNA and protein cycles, events that signific...