scholarly journals Analysis of Verb Expressions in the Conversational Speech of Kannada-English Speaking Bilingual Persons with Mild

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. p182
Author(s):  
Deepa M. S. ◽  
Shyamala K. C.
Keyword(s):  
Prognostic Indicator ◽  
Personality Change ◽  
Conversational Speech ◽  
Mild Dementia ◽  
Code Mixing ◽  
Healthy Elderly ◽  
Different Types ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Rehabilitative Measures ◽  
Verb Inflections

Dementia is characterized by the breakdown of intellectual and communicative functioning accompanied by personality change (DSM IV, American Psychiatric Association, 1994). Persons with dementia often experience difficulty in naming skills which can be attributed to semantic memory deficits. This can further influence various linguistic expressions such as lexical and morphological structures. The present study aimed to quantitatively and qualitatively analyze the presence of different types of verb inflections in bilingual (Kannada-English) persons with mild dementia. Considered for the study were 10 healthy elderly and 10 persons with mild dementia who were Kannada-English bilinguals. Spontaneous, conversational speech in all the participants was transcribed from which different types of verb inflexions in Kannada were extracted and analyzed. They included infinite verb, imperative verbs, negative imperatives, optative, and participle verbs. These were quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed for mean number of verbs and their nature including code mixing and switching identifying the significant differences between the two groups of participants. Results suggest that these measures offer a sensitive method for differentiating persons with mild dementia from healthy elderly. The study further helps in delineating prognostic indicator and planning rehabilitative measures which can be helpful tool for management.

scholarly journals Crossing borders . . . shifting sands: An investigation of Chinese students’ study experiences in the UK and China

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-472
Author(s):  
Kashmir Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Different Types ◽  
English Medium Instruction ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Learning Issues

In the current landscape of higher education in the UK, international students play a key role. It is an environment in which they not only cross borders physically but also transition through various identities as they develop their professional and linguistic confidence and skills to fully access and contribute to their programme of study and beyond. The aim of this paper is to outline the results of an empirical investigation into Chinese students’ perceptions of their study experiences in the context of student mobility and English-medium instruction in higher education. It reports on a study of two groups of Chinese students – one group studying in an English-speaking environment, the other in their home country where instruction is delivered through the medium of English. Semi-structured focus group interviews were conducted at each site which focused on the transition of “crossing borders” for educational purposes. The data was analysed using thematic analysis (Clarke & Braun, 2016). The main finding was that both groups experienced remarkably similar learning issues, despite being located in very different learning environments and crossing different types of borders.

6. The question of synaesthesia

2019 ◽  
pp. 105-116
Author(s):  
Julia Simner
Keyword(s):  
Recent Advances ◽  
Different Types ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Over Time

‘The question of synaesthesia’ looks at arguments against the Neonatal Synaesthesia Hypothesis and at other controversies and outstanding issues facing the field. It discusses the consistency-over-time feature and explains that although synaesthetes are highly consistent, they are not necessarily 100% consistent, and some synaesthetes might not be consistent at all. Is synaesthesia truly consistent over time as a definitional criterion, or does consistency over time merely characterize a subset of synaesthetes? There is also an imbalance between understanding the synaesthetes in English-speaking cultures and understanding synaesthetes worldwide, as well as between different types of synaesthesias. Despite the huge recent advances in understanding synaesthesia and how it affects synaesthetes, there is still more to learn.

P2-149: The Mini-Mental State Examination gradient in community healthy elderly subjects, mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. S357-S357
Author(s):  
Lívia G. Rodrigues ◽  
Ana Luiza Camozzato ◽  
Renata Kochhann ◽  
Claudia Godinho ◽  
Maria Otilia Cerveira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Mini Mental State Examination ◽  
Elderly Subjects ◽  
Mild Dementia ◽  
Healthy Elderly ◽  
State Examination ◽  
Healthy Elderly Subjects

BE, DO, and Modal Auxiliaries of 3-Year-Old African American English Speakers

2014 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 1383-1393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandi L. Newkirk-Turner ◽  
Janna B. Oetting ◽  
Ida J. Stockman
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American English ◽  
African American English ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Surface Form ◽  
Specific Effects ◽  
Modal Auxiliaries ◽  
Different Types ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
American English Speakers

PurposeThis study examined African American English–speaking children's use of BE, DO, and modal auxiliaries.MethodThe data were based on language samples obtained from 48 three-year-olds. Analyses examined rates of marking by auxiliary type, auxiliary surface form, succeeding element, and syntactic construction and by a number of child variables.ResultsThe children produced 3 different types of marking (mainstream overt, nonmainstream overt, zero) for auxiliaries, and the distribution of these markings varied by auxiliary type. The children's nonmainstream dialect densities were related to their marking of BE and DO but not modals. Marking of BE was influenced by its surface form and the succeeding verbal element, and marking of BE and DO was influenced by syntactic construction.ConclusionsResults extend previous studies by showing dialect-specific effects for children's use of auxiliaries and by showing these effects to vary by auxiliary type and children's nonmainstream dialect densities. Some aspects of the children's auxiliary systems (i.e., pattern of marking across auxiliaries and effects of syntactic construction) were also consistent with what has been documented for children who speak other dialects of English. These findings show dialect-specific and dialect-universal aspects of African American English to be present early in children's acquisition of auxiliaries.

Age-Related Accelerated Tapping Response in Healthy Population

2003 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anat Scheiman Elazary ◽  
Hagai Bergman ◽  
Revital Attia ◽  
Hilla Ben-Pazi
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Elderly Subjects ◽  
Healthy Population ◽  
Healthy Elderly ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Finger Tapping Test ◽  
Healthy Elderly People ◽  
Abnormal Motor

Different types of rapid tapping responses were described in the finger-tapping test. The “Hastening phenomenon” was described as an abnormal motor response in patients with Parkinson's disease. Accelerated tapping has been shown in a healthy elderly sample. It is not clear whether accelerated tapping relates to the hastening phenomenon or characterizes normal aging. We hypothesized that this sample of 21 healthy elderly people showed increased accelerated tapping but not hastening phenomenon. To assess this hypothesis, 20 healthy young and 21 elderly subjects performed a tapping test, requiring responses from 1 to 6 Hz. The healthy elderly sample showed increased accelerated tapping but not increased “hastening phenomenon.” We conclude that Accelerated tapping may represent age-related motor processes unlike the hastening phenomenon characterizing Parkinson's disease.

scholarly journals MATCHES AND MISMATCHES BETWEEN EFL TEACHERS’ AND STUDENTS’ PREFERENCES FOR CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK IN ENGLISH SPEAKING CLASSES AT A VIETNAMESE UNIVERSITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luu Thi Huong
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Corrective Feedback ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
English Speaking

This study aimed at examining matches or mismatches between teachers’ and students’ preferences regarding different types of corrective feedback in EFL (English as a foreign language) speaking classrooms at a Vietnamese university. Observation and two parallel questionnaires adapted from Katayama (2007) and Smith (2010) were used to gather data from five EFL teachers and 138 English-majored students. Multiple findings pertaining to each research question were revealed. Overall, results indicated that while there were some areas of agreement between teachers and students, important mismatches in their opinions did occur.

scholarly journals Driving and Alzheimer's disease: A neuropsychological screening battery for the elderly

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 312-320
Author(s):  
Lucía Crivelli ◽  
María Julieta Russo ◽  
Mauricio Franco Farez ◽  
Mariana Bonetto ◽  
Cecilia Prado ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Assessment ◽  
Driving Simulator ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Driving Performance ◽  
Driving Ability ◽  
Elderly Subjects ◽  
Cognitive Tests ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Mild Dementia ◽  
Healthy Elderly

ABSTRACT As life expectancy increases, there is a marked increase in the elderly population eager to continue driving. A large proportion of these elderly drive safely, however, patients with mild dementia are high-risk drivers. Objective: to identify the cognitive tests that best predict driving ability in subjects with mild dementia. Methods: 28 drivers with mild dementia and 28 healthy elderly subjects underwent an extensive cognitive assessment (NACC Uniform Data Set Neuropsychological Battery), completed an adapted On Road Driving Test (ORDT) and a Driving Simulator assessment. Results: drivers with mild dementia made more mistakes on the ORDT and had slower responses in the simulator tasks. Cognitive tests correlated strongly with on road and simulator driving performance. Age, the Digit Symbol Modalities Test and Boston Naming Test scores were the variables that best predicted performance on the ORDT and were included in a logistic regression model. Conclusion: the strong correlation between driving performance and performance on specific cognitive tests supports the importance of cognitive assessment as a useful tool for deciding whether patients with mild dementia can drive safely. The algorithm including these three variables could be used as a screening tool for the detection of unsafe driving in elderly subjects with cognitive decline.

Interpreter-mediated interaction in healthcare and legal settings

Interpreting ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Gavioli ◽  
Claudio Baraldi
Keyword(s):  
West African ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Turn Taking ◽  
English Speaking

Studies of dialogue interpreting have shown that interpreters are active participants in interpreter-mediated interaction and that their contributions are not simply a gloss of the interlocutors’ turns. Wadensjö (1998), in particular, has underlined the coordinating and mediating functions of dialogue interpreters. In this paper we analyse the activity of interpreters in the interaction by looking at different ways of organizing sequences of turn-taking and theireffects on intercultural mediation. We analysed a sample of 65 encounters in healthcare and legal settings in Italy, involving (Italian) institutional representatives, (English speaking) patients/defendants from West African regions and an interpreter. We note that different types of interpreter-mediator contributions are promoted or prevented in different ways in the medical and in the legal sets of data, respectively, in line with different contextual expectations, and with different results for the involvement of participants, particularly the “laymen”.

scholarly journals Fragmentation of Modern Artistic Narrative (English-Language Prose)

2021 ◽  
pp. 225-239
Author(s):  
G. I. Lushnikova ◽  
T. Yu. Osadchaya
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Different Types ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Specific Material ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Different Levels

 The question of the role, forms and functions of fragmentation of modern artistic narra tive is considered. The results of the analy sis of the fragmentary narrative of the works of contemporary  English-speaking  authors (J.   Barnes,   D.   Mitchell,   M. Cunningham, I. Banks, J. Franzen, S. Faulks, J. Eugenides, A. Smith, J. McGregor and others) are presented. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that in the modern literature of the postmodernist direction, nonlinearity of narration, deliberate mixing of temporal, local, descriptive and other layers are becoming widespread, practically becoming the norm. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that the fragmentation of a literary text is studied at different levels — compositional, content-thematic, plot, ideological-figurative, genre, narrative, chronotopic. It has been proved that the forms of implementation of fragmentariness are quite diverse: irregular division of the text, heterogeneity of themes and ideas, lack of linear development of the plot, combination of elements of different genres, the presence of internal polystylism, the use of different types of narration and narrator, violation of the unity of the chronotope. The analysis of specific material showed that the functions of a fragmentary narrative are determined by each specific context, the leading ones being the impact on the reader, the management of his attention, the placement of accents according to the writer's intention, the creation of the impression of authenticity and reliability.

Suicidal Head Injuries

1943 ◽  
Vol 89 (374) ◽  
pp. 85-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Guttmann
Keyword(s):  
Frontal Lobe ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Head Injuries ◽  
Physiological Effect ◽  
Personality Change ◽  
Personality Changes ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Frontal Lesions

Damage to the frontal lobe is liable to produce personality changes; it is highly probable that lesions have to be bilateral to have this effect. But beyond that, there is little agreement about type, extent and localization within the frontal lobe of the lesions which are followed by personality change. Little is known about the different types of clinical picture caused by bilateral frontal lesions. In a certain proportion of the cases euphoria is the most impressive symptom, and it is for this reason that operations on the frontal lobes have been proposed in the treatment of depressions. (Lit., see Hutton.) The value of the procedure is still under discussion, and its theoretical foundation is far from being understood. This is not surprising, for if one tries to analyse such an operation, one has to take into account at least four variables: the patient's previous personality, his mental illness, the psycho-physiological effect of the lesion, and the psychological effect of operation, nursing care and environmental changes. The cerebral factor is obviously the most interesting one; to judge its importance one tends to interpret the operative results in the light of experience after other frontal operations or injuries.

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