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Mina Loy: The Feminine Inscription Of Modernism, Joan L. Randall

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Natural Language Processing For Intelligent Systems, Khosrow Kaikhah

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Language Processing In Deaf And Hearing Subjects: A Question Of Hemisphere, Pamela Hope Zappardino

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From Aunt Mashula's Coconut Cake To Big Macs: References To Food In Recent Southern Women's Fiction, Darlene Reimers Hill

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A Daily School-Wide Writing Program (K-12): Methods And Theories, Idea Handbook, And Reference Guide, Kathryn Petrone O'Hare

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A Study Of Rock Music Videos As The Poetry Of Secondary Orality, Barbara Rose Laboissonniere

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The Relationship Of Psychoeducational Assessment Data To Learning Disability Placement Decisions, Martha J. Lally

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A Descriptive Analysis Of Dialogue And Inner Speech In Selected Works Of Fiction, Raymond H. Clines

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Mood Disorders Following Stroke, Robert Andrew Stern

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Schema Recognition And Inference: A Study Of Reading Comprehension Through Writing, Joan Frances Harrington

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Personality Differences Between Basic And Standard Writers, William Jude Kelly

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Reading Ability And Short-Term Memory: The Role Of Phonetic Processing Skills, Michele Jo Merlo

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Children In American Fiction, 1830-1920: A Cultural Perspective And Annotated Bibliography, Elizabeth Greed Peck

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Rehabilitation And Psychological Evaluations Of Claimants Of Portuguese And Puerto Rican Background, Rui R. Rodrigues

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This study outlines specific steps for guiding bilingual psychologists in the administration of psychological testing instruments. The study delineates the discrimination of subtle behavioral responses, the identification of various forms of low motivation, evasiveness, and malingering during the assessment procedure.

One hundred disability immigrant claimants of Portuguese and Puerto Rican background took part in this study. Data on file from their psychological reports was analyzed and two hypotheses were tested. The findings indicate that there is a strong relationship between the subjects' cognitive functioning, their adaptive behavior, and academic achievement in their native countries. There was also a significant relationship …

The Relative Contribution Of Social/Cognitive Processes To Social Competence, Diane Marques

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In the present study, the relationship of linguistic achievement, social problem-solving and empathy to social competence as validated by teachers, peers and self was explored. It was hypothesized that these three developmental processes would be significant predictors of social competence, and that their relative orders of contribution would differ across competence indicators. The subjects in this study were 102 third grade students. After parental consents were obtained, five pencil and paper measures were administered to the students using a group testing format in two sessions. These measures examined language achievement, social problem-solving, empathy, a peer rating of other classmates and …

Cognitive And Learning Processes In Children With Down Syndrome (Assessment), Siegfried M. Pueschel

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The Relationship Of Linguistic Awareness To Reading Skill In Children And Adults, Anne Csroline Pratt

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Extensive experimental evidence suggests that reading disability is related to linguistic deficits. One linguistic skill, linguistic awareness (awareness of the units that comprise one's language), has been shown to be related to beginning reading skills in young children, but little research has been conducted with older children or adults.

In Experiment 1 of the present study, third-grade good and poor readers were compared on three measures of linguistic awareness and a non-speech control task. Significant differences were found on all three linguistic awareness measures, but not on the non-speech control task. When the sample was divided by verbal and non-verbal …

The Relationship Of Linguistic Awareness To Reading Skill In Children And Adults (Literacy, Disability, Phonemic, Language Disorders, Dyslexia), Anne Caroline Pratt

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Style In Children's Literature: A Comparison Of Passages From Books For Adults And For Children, Celia Catlett Anderson

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In this study I tested the standard assumptions about differences in language usage in adult and children's literature by analyzing parallel passages from the works of four authors, Nathaniel Hawthorne, George MacDonald, Oscar Wilde, and John Gardner, who each wrote prose fantasy for both audiences.

A computer program and syntactic code based on those used by York University in Toronto provided a statistical analysis of the 20,000 words of selected text. I found that the passages from the children's books had much shorter paragraphs, and slightly shorter sentences, T-units, clauses, and words. T-units were the most consistently and notably reduced …

Language Deficits Following Temporal Lobectomy In Patients With Complex Partial Epilepsy, Maria Deinzer Lifrak

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Temporal Characteristics Of Humpback Whale (Megaptera Novaeangliae) Songs, Thomas Joseph Thompson

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National Stereotypes And Their Relationship To Self-Perceptions In Irish, Italian, And American College Students, Caroline M. Salvatore

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This study examined self-perceptions, and, their relationship to heterostereotypes and auto stereotypes in three groups: Irish students from the University Colleges of Dublin, Galway, and St. Patrick's College in Dublin; Italian students from the - University of Palermo in Sicily; and American students at the Community College of Rhode Island, Bryant College, and the University of Rhode Island.

It was predicted that, as a reflection of greater cultural homogeneity, a higher degree of within-group similarity would be found in the self-perceptions of both Italian and Irish students than in the self-perceptions of American students. It was further predicted that differences …

Restoration Idealism: The Influence Of Preciosite In The Plays Of William Wycherley, Howard Allen Goldman

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Iceland As Metaphor For Integration In The Works Of William Morris, Emily Louise Meredith

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Screening For School Readiness, John Alan Kataja

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An Analysis And Description Of Walt Whitman's Composing Process, Christopher Charles Burnham

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The Lyric Voice From Wyatt To Donne: An Essay In The Poetic Process, John Joseph Salesses

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Assessment Of Visual Memory In Elementary School Children Under Motivating Conditions, Charles Walter Paskewicz

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Visual memory as traditionally defined is a confounded measure, intercorrelated with visual processing abilities of discrimination and copying. In this study visual memory performance was conceptualized to exclude the effects of copying disabilities. The derived measure of visual memory was the difference between a reproduction from memory score and the score obtained on an equivalent copying task. Copying was considered a complex function including discrimination and visual-motor integration. These definitions were necessary to separate out the factors in visual memory assessment and thus provide for a differential diagnosis of visual processing disabilities.

Visual discrimination, copying and reproduction-from-memory measures were hypothesized …

Psychological Functioning In The Alcohol Misuser: An Integrative Model, Barbara Sachs Mccrady

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An Empirical Analysis Of Some Basic Theoretical Assumptions In Psychotherapy: A Dyadic, Psychometric Model For Assessing Elements Of The Therapeutic Relationship, Gary Robert Morrow

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