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    able to conduct range tests on whales to understand more clearly how well the hearing of a killer whale is. Scientists then came to conclusion that these majestic creatures had different dialects. There are many repertoires of codas within the killer whale species. Just as in human life‚ people have different accents‚ it is the same for these cetaceans. These tend to be very regional. Being that there has been many scientific discoveries‚ some of these whales don’t compensate from the procedures. Cetaceans

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    among many other things. I’ll give you a few examples of how our black culture has been appropriated and why these things are continuing to happen. An apparent example of appropriation of the black culture in America would be none other than‚ the dialect. There has been countless times where white people have begun using slang created by black people to appeal to them.

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    voice recognition technology to the masses. However‚ this is just the beginning of the possibilities with voice recognition software Newer voice command devices are speaker independent‚ so they can respond to multiple voices‚ regardless of accent or dialect. They can respond to several commands at once‚ by separating vocal messages and providing appropriate feedback‚ while accurately imitating a natural conversation. They can understand approximately fifty different commands and retain about two

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    Italian Neorealism

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    In the period between 1943 and 1950 Italian cinema was dominated by Neorealism which became the most significant film style of post-war Europe. Formation began back in 1936 when propagandists opened modern Cincitta studios and the film school name ‘Centro Sperimentaledi Cinematografia’. Along with the opening of schools such as this was a movement that placed a group of cinematographers under full-year contracts‚ among them was Carlo Montuori who used his classic techniques in creating ‘Bicycle Thieves’

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    Beowulf (/ˈbeɪ.ɵwʊlf/; in Old English [ˈbeːo̯wʊlf] or [ˈbeːəwʊlf]) is the conventional title[1] of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines‚ set in Scandinavia‚ commonly cited as one of the most important works ofAnglo-Saxon literature. It survives in a single manuscript known as the Nowell Codex. Its composition by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet[a] is dated between the 8th[3][4] and the early 11th century.[5][page needed] In 1731‚ the manuscript was badly damaged

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    Cross Cultural Function

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     (5.5   million  in  the  GTA  -­‐  Greater  Toronto  Area)  is   heralded  as  one  of  the  most  multicultural  cities  in  the   world.  Over  140  languages  and  dialects  are  spoken   here‚  and  just  over  30  per  cent  of  Toronto  residents   speak  a  language  other  than  English  or  French  at   home.        Toronto’s  rich

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    Sociology Colombia Since declaring independence on 20 July 1810 and achieving it in 1819‚ Colombia has changed its name seven times. Regional cultural traditions are diverse‚ with a broad range of distinct groups that have unique customs‚ accents‚ social patterns‚ and cultural adaptations. These groups are classified into three cultures: those in the interior‚ the countryside‚ and the coastal regions. Only during elections‚ sporting events‚ and beauty pageants do the regional cultures unite for

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    adjective are preserved more or less unimpaired) * Old English has 4 main dialects => Northumbrian ‚ Mercian ‚ West Saxon ‚ Kentish Northumbrian & Mercian are found in the region north of the Thames settled by the Angles. Kentish is known from still scantier remains & it’s the dialect of Jutes in the southeast. West Saxon (WS) is the only dialect which has an extensive collection of text and it’s the dialect of WS Kingdom in the southwest. * The tenses‚ Verb and nouns are simpler

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    English-knowing bilingual’ (Alptekin‚ 2005) Is likely to be skilled in communicative and comprehension strategies. The fully competent speaker of English as a lingua franca A speaker with a wide vocabulary‚ accurate grammar‚ easily understood accent. May or may not be originally a native speaker. Three circles redefined? Perhaps it is more useful‚ therefore‚ to define the three circles of users of English internationally simply in terms of their level of competence in the language rather

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    Spanglish is a well-known term that describes the linguistic behaviors on Spanish speakers‚ who’s Spanish is uniquely influenced from the English language. Spanglish can also be defined as a “mixed-code vernacular that includes a range of linguistic phenomena‚ most notably code-switching”. Despite the fact that Puerto Rican linguist‚ Salvador Tio‚ coined the term ‘Spanglish’ in the late 1940’s‚ this language contact phenomena has actually been used over the past 150 years‚ since the Treaty of Guadalupe

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