The two other factors are intonation which is the variation in pitch when speaking and stress which is the emphasis given to different syllables with in words or different words within sentences. ... Gleason suggests children as young as one month can start to differentiate certain phonemes. ... Syntax is important because in effective communication both the listener and speaker must be familiar with grammatical rules of the language being used. ... Although children with Asperger's are characteristically intelligent and may have a full grasp of the phonological, syntactic and sematic com...

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Some examples: replacing "the fireman" with the pronoun "he" or "two boys" with "they". ... It is when the target sentence directly matches an antecedent in the context sentence. ... Research has found that people with a smaller reading span have a smaller working memory capacity, making it hard to understand more than a few sentences back. ... Genres are important because they give us the general expectation about the way the information in the discourse will be given. ... Usually it starts with the introduction of characters and settings, the main character set a goal, encounters some prob...

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Therefore, we decided to start with something that would make the students draw on their background knowledge. ... To sum up, we gave the students a set of sentences so that they could find out the rule themselves which might be considered as a consciousness-raising task. ... Learners start with matching task which does not require students to use their higher thinking skills and end with decision making task which requires complex cognitive skills such as reasoning and turn-taking. ... However, at this point, we also embrace a socio-cultural stance because we thought that just because we a...

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Language is an important aspect in our day to day life because it enables us to communicate. The effective communication is made possible with the help of language. ... By changing the word order in a sentence, you can change its meaning, and even make it meaningless. ... The starting point for a particular problem is determined by the systems previous experience. Metaphorically speaking, the further away a solution is from the starting point in problem hyper-space, the more difficult it will be to find. ...

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We can demonstrate with pictures or drawings because it might help those who are visual. ... I also like giving about ten sentences for translating as homework or sometimes checking the new grammar during the lesson because they help my students practice the specified grammar or sometimes revise the old one. ... The next difference between the two methods is the dealing with grammar. ... In the Direct Method there is much less attention paid to memorising because the purpose of the language learning is communication. ... In the Direct Method vocabulary is the most significant and as for the sk...

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Even with these two components, however, signs can exist only in opposition to other signs. That is, signs are created by their value relationships with other signs. ... A sign is a recognizable combination of a signifier with a particular signified. ... Saussure chooses the term "sign" over "symbol" because the latter implies motivation. ... The easiest example of this is a sentence, where the words come one at a time and in a line, one after the other, and because of that, they are all connected to each other. ...

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Language changes and develops constantly with time to adapt to the users' needs. ... With the war a meeting point of numerous nationalities and people brought together under stressful conditions, German had a significantly different influence with its loanwords to English that mainly refered to vehicles and weapons. ... For instance, the way some sentences were structured in WWI can be associated to older forms of English while WWII English is more related to the present-day English. ... The spelling of words before WWI, a period in which the number of literate people was relatively fewer...

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Today, with greater recognition and celebration of cultural differences, people are more likely to maintain and share their primary language with their children and to promote bilingualism as a reflection of ethnic pride and identity. ... Children can be expected to go through some periods of mixing the two languages and borrowing vocabulary to express ideas, sometimes within the same sentence. This occurs because vocabulary may exist in one language but not in the other. ... The opposite occurs with a change in the environment. ... As long as people are regularly speaking with the child in ...

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