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Phonetics And Technology In The Classroom: A Practical Approach To Using Speech Analysis Software In Second-Language Pronunciation Instruction, Daniel J. Olson

School of Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

While speech analysis technology has become an integral part of phonetic research, and to some degree is used in language instruction at the most advanced levels, it appears to be mostly absent from the beginning levels of language instruction. In part, the lack of incorporation into the language classroom can be attributed to both the lack of practical pedagogical methods for implementation, as well as objections to the complex design of the software itself. The present study first seeks to create a brief picture of phonetic instruction at lower levels of language instruction. The second, and main aim, is to …

Discovering Jewish Studies Collections In Academic Libraries: A Practical Guide, Izabella Taler

Publications and Research

The U.S. colleges and universities offering non-sectarian educational programs in Jewish Studies rely on the support of their academic libraries for research materials and library services. For college libraries which use Library of Congress Classification scheme, it is a common practice to integrate "studies" resources into their general library collections. Since Jewish Studies sources span a vast number of subjects within all major disciplines, shelving integration leads to the dispersion of all relevant sources and such dispersion in turn leads to a variety of problems for library professionals and library users. For collection development librarians the problems range from lack …

Modern African Verse And The Politics Of Authentication, Gabriel S. Bamgbose

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Modern African Verse and the Politics of Authentication" Gabriel S. Bamgbose argues that the authenticity of modern African poetry is marked by the intricate tie between African verse and African life in its diversities and complexities. Bamgbose examines the "modern" nature of African poetry, its oral roots, its treatment of colonial, and cultural nationalist issues, its issues of négritude, language, radical consciousness, gender, and its "international" nature. Bamgbose draws on the poetry of Okot p'Bitek, Taban Lo Liyong, and Frank Chipasula of East Africa, Tchikaya U Tam'si, Tati Loutard, and Gahlia Gwangwa'a of Central Africa, and …

Embodied Cognition And The Grotesque In Calvino's La Giornata D'Uno Scrutatore And Sanguineti's Capriccio Italiano, Marco Caracciolo

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Embodied Cognition and the Grotesque in Calvino's La giornata d'uno scrutatore and Sanguineti's Capriccio italiano" Marco Caracciolo analyzes the multiple dimensions of embodied experience and how they can be brought to bear on literary texts. Drawing on scholarship in cognitive science, he argues that the embodiment of people's engagement with the world emerges from the interaction between the physical structure of the body and socio-cultural practices. Caracciolo shows how such nexus of biological make-up and culture can give rise to particularly complex meanings in the representation of grotesque bodies. In order to illustrate his postulates, Caracciolo …

Designing An Online Civic Engagement Platform: Balancing "More" Vs. "Better" Participation In Complex Public Policymaking, Cynthia R. Farina, Dmitry Epstein, Josiah Heidt, Mary J. Newhart

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

A new form of online citizen participation in government decisionmaking has arisen in the United States (U.S.) under the Obama Administration. “Civic Participation 2.0” attempts to use Web 2.0 information and communication technologies to enable wider civic participation in government policymaking, based on three pillars of open government: transparency, participation, and collaboration. Thus far, the Administration has modeled Civic Participation 2.0 almost exclusively on a universalist/populist Web 2.0 philosophy of participation. In this model, content is created by users, who are enabled to shape the discussion and assess the value of contributions with little information or guidance from government decisionmakers. …

Native American Oral Traditional Evidence In American Courts: Reliable Evidence Or Useless Myth?, Rachel Awan

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

No abstract provided.

March 2014 News Releases, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

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Options For Avoiding Counterinsurgencies, David H. Ucko, Robert C. Egnell

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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Parameters – Full Issue, Usawc Parameters

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

The New Cold War: A Way Ahead for US Strategy by Michael G. Roskin Options for Avoiding Counterinsurgencies: Learning from Afghanistan by David H. Ucko and Robert C. Egnell Rethinking Small-Footprint Interventions: Thomas Schelling's “Tipping” Points by Stephen Watts and Stephanie Pezard Pakistan’s Changing Counterterrorism Strategy: A Window of Opportunity? by Michael Spangler China's North Korea Policy: Rethink or Recharge? by Andrew Scobell and Mark Cozad Predicting Future War by Robert Johnson Forking Paths: War After Afghanistan by Michael Evans The National Guard as a Strategic Hedge by James D. Campbell Reserve Component Costs: A Relook by James “Rick” Morrison

Commentaries And Replies, Usawc Press

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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Book Reviews, Usawc Press

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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Review Essays, Usawc Press

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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"Purple People": "Sexed" Linguistics, Pleasure, And The "Feminine" Body In The Lyrics Of Tori Amos, Megim A. Parks

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

The notion of a “feminine” style has been staunchly resisted by third-wave feminists who argue that to posit a “feminine” style is essentialist. Yet, linguists such as Norma Mendoza-Denton and Elinor Ochs discuss indexicality and shifting through salient variables, a process called entextualization. Further, French feminists such as Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva use the linguistic concept of intertextuality to explain certain poetic uses of language that might cause what Luce Irigaray calls “irruption of the semiotic chora”—moments within language where boundaries in the semiotic chain of signification are “blurred.” Thus, while current feminism has moved strictly away …

The Unbreakable Circle: An Intellectual History Of Michel Foucault, Chris Mb Moreland

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

The following is a chronologically ordered internal intellectual history of Michel Foucault. The objective of this analysis is to determine whether or not Foucault provides a viable critical social theory of bourgeois society. In order to examine this topic, I trace the development of Foucault’s thought during his early, pre-archaeological stage, his archaeological stage, and his genealogical stage. I frame Foucault’s stages as attempts to overcome Kant’s subject/object division—or the paradox that man operates as both a meaning-giving subject and an empirical object—that one encounters in discourses pertaining to the social sciences. Foucault’s pre-archaeological stage is characterized by two humanistic …

Marb2014, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From March 2014 Robert Kelly Archive

Claremont Colleges Faculty Survey (Fall 2013), M. Sara Lowe, Char Booth, Maria Savova

Library Staff Publications and Research

This survey was designed to gauge the Claremont Colleges faculty’s familiarity with, use of, and views about two areas: a) Library educational services / Information Literacy competencies, and b) Library collections.

Claremont Colleges Library Faculty Library Survey Summary Report: 2014, M. Sara Lowe, Char Booth, Maria Savova

Library Staff Publications and Research

This report highlights findings from the Fall 2013 Faculty Library Survey with information from the Fall 2012 Ithaka survey included where relevant. The Fall 2012 Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey focused broadly on research and teaching practices as well as the "dissemination, collecting, discovery, and access of research and teaching materials. The Fall 2013 Faculty Library survey was designed to gauge the Claremont Colleges faculty’s familiarity with, use of, and views about: a) Library educational services; b) student’s Information Literacy (IL) competencies; and c) Library collections. Both the Fall 2012 Ithaka and Fall 2013 Faculty Library surveys represent aspects of a …

Enhancing Understanding Of Teaching And The Profession Through School Innovation Rounds, Wendy Moran

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Currently, Australian teacher education programs include professional experiences as a means of enhancing preservice teacher understanding about teaching and the profession. The challenge the programs face is the lack of places available in schools and, at times, the unpredictable quality of the placements as some teachers are time-poor, are not good models of effective teaching practice, and/or lack the skills of articulating their practice. This paper briefly explores features of past models of professional experience before describing a new model that, as an inclusion in a range of field-based placements, addresses many of the challenges in teacher education today. Results …

Becoming An Inclusive Educator: Applying Deleuze & Guattari To Teacher Education, Loraine M. Mckay, Suzanne Carrington, Radha Iyer

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

New ways of thinking are required in teacher education to promote beginning teachers as change agents in education. Twenty years after the Salamanca Statement (UNESCO, 1994) that called for schools to provide equitable opportunities for all children, teaching practices in many classrooms are informed by the deficit view of learning. Beginning teachers need to be prepared to challenge the ideological influences that operate in schools. Deleuze and Guattari’s (1987) model of the rhizome is used to report one beginning teacher’s journey as she learnt to negotiate structural and personal obstacles to create an inclusive learning environment. Data from reflective diaries, …

Law School Record, Vol. 60, No. 2 (Spring 2014), Law School Record Editors

Law School Record

• The Past, Present, and Future of Interdisciplinarity: A Faculty Roundtable Discussion
• For the Love of Law and Literature: Lively Conference Exemplifies Law School’s Interdisciplinary Strengths
• Ronald Coase, 1910-2013: A Tribute
• The Gavel and the Stethoscope: Law and Medicine, in Study and Practice
• Interdisciplinary Legal Education and Scholarship: The Case of Law and Philosophy
• Worth a Volume of Logic: The Study of Legal History at the Law School

Leadership On The Social Frontier: Principals’ Roles In Comprehensive Reform Settings, Peter Miller, Martin Scanlan, Nathan Wills

College of Education Faculty Research and Publications

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Remembering How It Was When We Were Still Brothers How Russion Evanglelicals Are Responding To The Crisis In Ukraine, William Yoder Ph.D.

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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An Indigenous Women Perspective Of Work And Organisation: The Maya Way, Jennifer Manning, J. Miguel Imas, Paul Donnelly

Conference papers

Western literature in management/organisation studies focuses primarily on gender issues that affect inequalities experienced by women at work. Adopting, in some cases, critical and feminist theoretical positions, the gender debate unfolds questions on the prevailing male discourse that is dominant in management and business organisations. Most of these theoretical assumptions tend to influence, subsequently, the way in which we understand the experiences of women in the developing or under-developed world. That is, these theoretical positions occupy a privileged voice upon which to write, describe and analyse the experiences of women in contexts where these Western discourses seem either alien or …

Investigating Automatic Measurements Of Prosodic Accommodation And Its Dynamics In Social Interaction, Celine De Looze, Stefan Scherer, Brian Vaughan, Nick Campbell

Articles

Spoken dialogue systems are increasingly being used to facilitate and enhance human communication. While these interactive systems can process the linguistic aspects of human communication, they are not yet capable of processing the complex dynamics involved in social interaction, such as the adaptation on the part of interlocutors. Providing interactive systems with the capacity to process and exhibit this accommodation could however improve their efficiency and make machines more socially-competent interactants.

At present, no automatic system is available to process prosodic accommodation, nor do any clear measures exist that quantify its dynamic manifestation. While it can be observed to be …

An Asymmetry In Shape And Shape Word Interference: Evidence For Core Geometric Knowledge, Joshua E. Edwards, Ty W. Boyer, Bradley R. Sturz

Psychology: Faculty Presentations (2009-2022)

Nativists have postulated fundamental geometric knowledge that predates linguistic and symbolic thought. Central to these claims is the existence of an isolated cognitive system dedicated to processing geometric information. Testing such hypotheses presents challenges due to difficulties in eliminating the combination of geometric and non-geometric information through language. We present evidence using a modified matching interference paradigm that an incongruent shape word interferes with identifying a shape, but an incongruent shape does not interfere with identifying a shape word. This asymmetry in shape and shape word interference suggests that shape words activate spatial representations of shapes but shapes do not …

On Predicting User Affiliations Using Social Features In Online Social Networks, Minh Thap Nguyen

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

User profiling such as user affiliation prediction in online social network is a challenging task, with many important applications in targeted marketing and personalized recommendation. The research task here is to predict some user affiliation attributes that suggest user participation in different social groups.

The Origin: Opening Remarks To Exploring Civil Society Through The Writings Of Dr. Seuss, Tamara C. Belinfanti

Articles & Chapters

No abstract provided.

Forget Roger Rabbit - Is Corporate Purpose Being Framed?, Tamara C. Belinfanti

Articles & Chapters

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The Ipe Insight. Volume 2014, No. 1. March, 2014., The Unm Hsc Inter-Professional Education Team

The IPE Newsletters

HSC Environmental Scan Survey

Intertextuality In Beckett's And Ağaoğlu's Work, Elmas Şahín

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Intertextuality in Beckett's and Ağaoğlu's Work" Elmas Şahín discusses Adalet Ağaoğlu's 1973 novel Ölmeye Yatmak (Lying Down to Die) and Samuel Beckett's 1950 Malone Dies in terms of intertextuality. Şahín employs tenets of comparative literature in order to analyze the two texts with regard to form and content and focuses on the on protagonists' worlds. In Şahín's interpretation, Ağaoğlu's protagonist Aysel is narrated in postmodern intertextuality as an individual of our days alienated from society, searching for her self/selves as she cannot succeed in dying. Both Beckett's and Ağaoğlu's protagonists attempt to "escape" from their selves and …