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English Morpheme Accuracy, Diversity, And Productivity Measures In School-Aged Bilingual Children, Gabrielle Raab

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

The identification of meaningful language measures for bilingual children has important clinical implications in the diagnosis of impairment. Given the shortage of bilingual speech-language pathologists, informative English measures are invaluable. This study extends current research to examine the utility of widely accepted English grammatical measures in bilingual school-aged children with differing levels of English exposure. The language sample analyses implemented have shown repeatedly to discriminate between typical and language impaired monolinguals, and more recently were considered in the assessment of developing bilinguals. Measures were taken from the language samples of thirteen school-aged bilingual Spanish-English speaking children who told a story …

Language-Deprived Environments: Neonatal Intensive Care Units And Hearing Loss, Margaret Caesar

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Adequate language exposure is crucial for speech-language development in children. Previous research suggests that decreased language exposure leads to an increased risk for speech-language developmental delays. This study aims to explore the language exposure of two arguably language-deprived environments: Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) and severe-to-profound hearing loss. This is a two-part study that examines caregiver-infant interactions through the analysis of infant-directed speech (IDS). In the first part of the study, researchers transcribed and analyzed pre-recorded Language Environment Analysis (LENA) audio recordings of five (5) infants with severe-to-profound hearing loss (6-months post cochlear implantation). These LENA recordings collected speech, language, …

The Long-Term Impact Of A Study Trip Abroad On The Acquisition Of Regional Spanish Vocabulary Incidentally, Juan P. Rodríguez Prieto

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

This quantitative study investigated the possible gains in the acquisition of regional vocabulary as a result of incidental learning after studying abroad for one semester. Five college students took courses at a language institute in Madrid (Spain) while living with a host family during a semester, while a control group with five participants continued their studies at XXXX, in the US. They took a survey online that contained forty vocabulary items exclusive to Spain (majo, mola, guay and similar) three times: at the beginning and at the end of the program and after three years. Results indicated …

The Impact Of College Students’ Motivational Orientations And The Social Dimension Of Emotional Intelligence In Their Willingness To Study Abroad, Juan P. Rodríguez Prieto

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

This study investigated the effect of motivational orientations and the social aspects of emotional intelligence (EI) on L2 Spanish learners’ willingness to participate in a study abroad program. The only significant result was the correlation between an integrative motivational orientation and the Altruism Scale score (N = 68, r = .290, p < .05), indicating that those learners with a higher desire to learn the L2 in order to interact with members of the target community also showed more responsiveness to others as measured by empathy, nurturance, helpfulness, and social responsibility. No additional interactions were found between the motivational orientations and the social aspects of EI. Neither the motivational orientations (integrative/instrumental) nor the social subscales of EI used correlated with the L2 learners’ participation in a short-term (three weeks to Costa Rica, N = 30) or a long-term study abroad program (a full semester to Spain, N = 13). This finding is indicative that those variables do not seem to have an influential effect or predictability on whether participants would ultimately continue their study of L2 Spanish in a foreign country or at home in the near future.

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 52, Issue 4

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The front cover and publication information for this issue, including the table of contents

Mean Sidewalks, . Anil

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A regular column.

Rearrangements, Darryl Francis

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Rearranging letters from sets of words into new sets of words.

Isopangrams, Darryl Francis

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An isopangram is considered a perfect pangram and uses all 26 letters of the alphabet once and only once.

A Short Story In Alphametics, Udo Wermuth

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Solve the short story alphametic math puzzles.

Colloquy

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A collection of readers' responses to past articles.

Cursive Russian-English Homoglyphs And Homographs, Tristan Miller

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A look at Russian-English homoglyphs and homographs from the cursive alphabet.

Installation Of "A Mark Was Made" Story Wall Completed As Part Of Ped Mall Project

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A reprint of an internet articles about an installation honoring 17 Iowa City residents who have had an impact on the city including Dave Morice, a prolific Word Ways contributor.

Eating By Numbers, Susan Thorpe

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Find the numerical total of a word or phrase and add the digits of the resulting sum together until you reach a single digit result.

Anagram Couplets, . Anil

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These rhymes are polyanagrams of their titles, or else couplets within a single anagram of the title.

Mary Had Four Little Lambs, . Anil

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Four parodies of the poem Mary Had a Little Lamb.

Jabbowocky Or: Lipolating Nonsense, Tikki Saram

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The author rewrites Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" by removing all instances of the letters "l" and "r".

Adding Two Like Letters, Susan Thorpe

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A given word is split into two parts which may, or may not, have the same number of letters. A common letter (A to Z) is positioned at the front of each of the two groups of letters to form two words which, ideally, make a 2-word phrase.

Miami Sequences, Susan Thorpe

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An exercise in removing a specific pattern of letters from a word to form a new word.

More Country Transpositions, Jeff Grant

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A continuation of last issue's article with even more transposals for the names of countries of the world.

Add A Vowel, Steve Kahan

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Add a vowel and rearrange each set of letters to form a word.

Ping Pong, Ding Dong & Sing Song, David Shaw

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An essay on word pairs with various forms of reduplication.

Punk Whiz 23, . Anil

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A quiz with clues given for a resulting pun.

Removing Separated, Alphabetically-Adjacent, Letters, Susan Thorpe

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The 2 alphabetically-adjacent letters to be removed from the word must:

be in alphabetical order in the word

be separated by one or more letters

have no duplicates in the word

Reversed Vowel Countries, Susan Thorpe

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in BRAZIL and ITALY the same 2 vowels (A and I) occur in reverse order. Brazil and Italy could be described as reversed vowel countries.

Word Ways V.52 No.4 Complete Issue

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The complete issue in one file.

Instructions To Authors

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Instructions to authors wishing to submit articles for future issues.

It's "Know" Contest: A Quinquagenary Tribute To The New York Magazine Competition, Don Hauptman

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A tribute to the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the New York Magazine Competition.

Transposals Between U.S. Place Names, Eric Tentarelli

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In Word Ways in November 1973, Dmitri Borgmann searched for names of U.S. Cities, towns, or villages that were transposals of each other. The longest well-mixed pair he found consisted of 9-letter names: MASTERSON, Texas, and SEARSMONT, Maine. It is worthwhile to revisit this topic in hopes of finding longer examples.

The Martin Game, Jeremiah Farrell, Karen Farrell

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The MARTIN diagram uses each letter of the name to form nine chemical symbols.The Game. Two players alternately select nodes trying to obtain three nodes with a common letter or three nodes of the same color obtaining all the letters of MARTIN.

The Inside And Outside Of Four Letter Words, Susan Thorpe

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Letters are given their alphabetical values A=1 to Z=26. In each of the four categories, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, the first and last letters of a 4-letter word work together to give the same result as the second and third letters working together.