Study Course of Mother-Tongue: Relevant Aspects

How is the Mother Tongue Acquired

Implementing Mother-tongue

Hong Kong is a homogeneous community both in terms of race (98% Chinese) and language (over 80% speak Cantonese as their mother tongue). However, the historical and sociolinguistic dynamics there are such that English is the dominant medium of instruction at secondary level and above, while Modern Mandarin, a non-indigenous Chinese (standard) dialect, provides the norms for both the use of Chin...

Relational Algebra: Mother Tongue - XQuery: Fluent

This work may be seen as a further proof of the versatility of the relational database model. Here, we add XQuery to the catalog of languages which RDBMSs are able to “speak” fluently. Given suitable relational encodings of sequences and ordered, unranked trees—the two data structures that form the backbone of the XML and XQuery data models—we describe a compiler that translates XQuery expressi...

Contextually relevant aspects of meaning.

A series of six experiments investigated whether inferences about contextually relevant aspects of meaning were encoded into memory during reading. In all the experiments, subjects studied short paragraphs. Then, test sentences were presented that expressed relevant aspects of meaning that had not been explicitly stated in the paragraphs. For example, for a paragraph about searching for the cor...

The Acquisition of Clicks by Non-mother-tongue Speakers

It is generally accepted that non-mother-tongue speakers acquiring Xhosa often encounter difficulties with the acquisition of clicks. This paper addresses this issue by focussing on some of the results obtained from 18 Englishand Afrikaans-speaking children aged between 10;0 and 13;0, acquiring Xhosa as a third language in the primary school. The results firstly indicate that non-mother-tongue ...