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Alphametics, Steven Kahan

Word Ways

A Mathematical game.

Disturbing Verbing And Pre-Verbing, Roger E. Rondeau

Word Ways

Humorous commentary on the English language trend of creating verbs out of nouns which he calls "verbing.".

Transposals In Sentences, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

New examples of transposals used in sentences.

Mean Sidewalks, . Anil

Word Ways

The fourth in a series that will be a regular column in the future.

Words With Two Pairs Of Like Letters - The Sequel, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

An update to a popular Word Ways article originally published in 1973 in which examples are given of words with two double letters.

Anagram Quiz 24, . Anil

Word Ways

A quiz.

What's Really Magic About Magic Squares, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

An explanation and discussion of magic squares along with a handout from a 2002 conference detailing the related Five Card Study.

Romantic Words, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

A romantic word is one that has a well-formed Roman numeral embedded within it. The value of a romantic word is the numerical equivalent of the Roman numeral it displays.

Colloquy

Word Ways

Reader's responses to previously published articles.

Hebrew Scandinavian Charades, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

Fifteen Hebrew Scandinavian charades can be constructed from the sixty components that are presented below, wherein fifteen decoys have been included to heighten the challenge. Are you up for it?

Sticking To My Puns: Still More Wordplay In Everyday Situations, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

A collection of puns.

Word Ways V.51 No.1 Complete Issue

Word Ways

The complete issue in one file.

Between Love Hate Opie Teachers Talk About Social Stratification Race In Brazil, Feb 15, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Tickets On Sale For Chinese New Year Gala, Feb 11, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Elip Faculty Contribute To Tesol Encyclopedia Of English Language Teaching, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Ohio's Small Seed Project Blossoms Into International Partnership, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Opie Selected To Host Brazilian Training Program, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Opie Earns Five-Year Initial Accreditation, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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How To Manage Your Ta And Student Responsibilities, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Writing & Linguistics News, Georgia Southern University

Writing & Linguistics News (2012-2022)

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Interactions For Language Learning In And Around Virtual World, Ciara R. Wigham, Luisa Panichi, Susanna Nocchi, Randall Sandler

Articles

“… the new forms of interaction made possible by virtual worlds remain, to a significant degree, unexplored.” (Peterson, 2011: 78) “… immersion and interaction are necessary conditions of worldhood. Without them, virtual worlds would not be worlds at all.” (Zabel, 2014: 417) Since the mid-1990s, the pedagogical opportunities offered by three-dimensional (3D) virtual worlds (VWs) have generated a considerable amount of interest and dialogue among educators and educational researchers across a variety of disciplines. The potential of VWs for language learning and teaching did not go unnoticed by the CALL community: language educators and researchers began to explore and to …

Mlk Day Teach In Extending Kings Vision To Action In The Age Of 45, Jan 19, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Language Use In Totalistic Social Groups, Emily H. Allen

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

A totalistic social group is defined as a collection of individuals who share similar values and goals and who live together within intensive boundaries enforced by the group’s leadership and/or members themselves (Lifton 1969). The focus of this project is to better understand the effect of language on (I) a totalistic group’s social structure and (II) the ideologies and actions of members. The limited linguistic research on totalistic groups claims that leaders and members use language in order to enforce rules and beliefs, encourage conformity, and maintain as well as increase membership. By examining language practices in the US military, …

A Sociophonetic Study Of /S/ Weakening In Andalusian Spanish, Elisa Taylor

Scripps Senior Theses

The phenomenon of /s/ weakening is common among many varieties of Spanish, from Latin America to southern Spain (Lipski (2011), Samper Padilla (2011)). This project will focus specifically on coda /s/ weakening in Andalusian Spanish, the social factors that influence it, and the language ideologies surrounding the dialect. Previous research has found that social factors influencing /s/ weakening include social class, gender, and education level (Lipski (2011), Samper Padilla (2011), Holmquist (2008), Terrell (1981), Fontanella de Weinberg (1973)). Studies on /s/ weakening in Andalusian Spanish have mainly focused on the functional compensation for the loss of /s/, but little research …

Pronunciation Instruction Can Improve L2 Learners' Bottom-Up Processing For Listening, Elizabeth M. Kissling

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

Listening is widely regarded as an important skill that is difficult and necessary to teach in L2 classrooms. Listening requires both top-down and bottom-up processing, yet pedagogical techniques for the latter are often lacking. This study explores the efficacy of pronunciation instruction (PI) for improving learners’ bottom-up processing. The study recruited 116 relatively novice learners of Spanish as a foreign language and provided the experimental groups with brief lessons in PI emphasizing segmental or suprasegmental features followed by production-focused or perception-focused practice. Learners’ bottom-up processing skill was assessed with a sentence-level dictation task. Learners given PI on suprasegmental features followed …

Auditory Distraction On Visual Translation: Language Interference In Spanish-English Bilinguals, Violet A. Young

Digital Repository: Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence

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Auditory Distraction On Visual Translation: Language Interference In Spanish-English Bilinguals, Violet A. Young

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Pragmatic Functionality Of Punctuation On Twitter, Elizabeth M. Wright

Theses and Dissertations--Linguistics

This work presents an analysis of punctuation use in computer-mediated communication (CMC); in particular, the present study aims to describe the pragmatic functions of nonstandard punctuation on Twitter, providing a corpus-driven overview of the distribution and frequency of nonstandard punctuation use, and an analysis of sampled tweets at the individual tweet level to estimate noise levels in the overall corpus. A survey was also conducted which aimed to identify user understanding of the affective content of nonstandard punctuation strings and to identify any possible effects of character repetition. Survey results indicate that linguistic content was the strongest indicator of affective …

What Is Mle, Who Speaks It, And Is It Safe?, Justina Goldbeck

Scripps Senior Theses

Some youth in London speak a non-standard variety of English whose lexical items are difficult for non-speakers to understand. This study collected naturally produced speech samples from students of various ethnicities and class backgrounds who spoke this dialect. It also polled students about their identity, as well as about their use of particular slang words. The recordings were glossed to determine the kind of slang used, as well which populations were more or less likely to use slang. The surveys were analyzed to determine relevant background characteristics of those who used slang versus those who did not. This study concludes …

The Language Of Music: Linguistics In Trumpet Pedagogy, Marisa B. Youngs

Theses and Dissertations--Music

For decades, many brass teachers have relied heavily upon speech as a means of conveying pedagogical concepts. Additionally, a significant number of teachers in the brass community continue to use speech sounds to teach specific kinesthetic responses (i.e. using specific vowels for tone production, particular consonants for articulation, and variations of vowels for different pitch registers). These teaching concepts have been perpetuated over time, though many intricate aspects of human anatomy were yet to be understood at the inception of these methods, including the physiological processes used during speech. As technology has evolved, researchers in the field of linguistics have …