Speech (motherese); CHILDES 5. Gordon Wells & The Bristol Project ============================================================== Summary of Theories of First Language Acquisition Three broad theories of L1 acquisition: 1. behaviourist (e.g.‚ Stimulus-response conditioning- Skinner) 2. innatist (e.g.‚ Universal Grammar- Chomsky) 3. interactionist (e.g.‚ Constructional learning- Tomasello) 1. Behaviourism Behaviourism doesn’t explain
Premium Linguistics Noam Chomsky Behaviorism
Second Language Acquisition Second language acquisition or second language learning is the process by which humans all over the world learn a second language in addition to their native languages. Second language‚ target language or L2 are all synonyms which are used to refer to any language learned in addition to the native language called mother tongue‚ first language or L1. Furthermore‚ second language acquisition can also include a third language‚ which is then called heritage language or multilingualism
Premium Second language acquisition Language acquisition Linguistics
Mergers and acquisitions (abbreviated M&A) is an aspect of corporate strategy‚ corporate finance and management dealing with the buying‚ selling‚ dividing and combining of different companies and similar entities that can help an enterprise grow rapidly in its sector or location of origin‚ or a new field or new location‚ without creating a subsidiary‚ other child entity or using a joint venture. The distinction between a "merger" and an "acquisition" has become increasingly blurred in various
Premium Mergers and acquisitions
APPENDIX------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------48 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Mergers and acquisition is the most popular means of corporate restructuring or business combinations. It has played an important role in the external growth of a number of leading corporations around the world. A
Premium Daimler AG Chrysler Mercedes-Benz
CASE STUDY NOTES/ ANALYSIS THE TRUE COST OF ACQUISITION. INTRODUCTION -The department of defense has highlighted its vision and mission but has not broken these down into objectives for each function - Without a breakdown of this mission into workable action plans/ objectives it is therefore very hard to create performance measure and standards of practice - This is evident by the recent happening of Darlene Druyun’s actions while acting in the position of head of procurement - There
Premium Boeing Negotiation
The following are the other important reasons for mergers or amalgamations: 1. Economies of scale. An amalgamation company will have more reasons at its command that the individual companies. This will help in increasing the scale of operations and the economies of large scale will be available. These economies will occur because of more intensive utilization of production facilities‚ distribution network‚ research and development facilities‚ etc. these economies will be available in horizontal
Premium Mergers and acquisitions
Merck Acquisition of Medco Case Study John X Devry University – Keller Graduate School of Management Finance 561 Professor May 22‚ 2011 Table of Contents Abstract………………………………………………………………………………………p.g. 3 Company backgrounds……………………………………………………….………………p.g. 3 Merck & Co.‚ Inc. ………………………………………..…………………….…....p.g. 3 Medco Containment Services Inc. ............................……..…………………………p.g. 4 Reasons for Mergers…………………………………………………………………………p.g. 5 Economies of Scale………………………………………………………………….
Premium Mergers and acquisitions Marketing
Valuation of Mergers and Acquisitions SUBMITTED BY: DEBAYAN MUKHERJI PGDM ’"2008-2010 ROLL NO: 08PGDM083 INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE‚ NEW DELHI CONTACT NUMBER: 09717443910 EMAIL : debayan.p08@imi.edu Valuation of Mergers and Acquisitions Mergers and acquisitions (more generally‚ takeovers) are an important means through which companies achieve economies of scale‚ face the competition‚ or respond to economic shocks. For example ‚how the $54 billion US chemical major
Premium Discounted cash flow Mergers and acquisitions Stock market
sales in the US were declining‚ making it imperative for the company to start looking for new markets to safeguard its long term interests leading to its acquisition of Skoda.” Examine the various reasons for companies to adopt cross-border merger and acquisition. Also‚ discuss the benefits derived by Volkswagen and Skoda with this acquisition. ( 22 marks) “Known over the world for its quality engineering‚ Volkswagen’s task was to transform the poor image and socialistic policies of Skoda into a
Premium Automotive industry Volkswagen Group Volkswagen
Skill acquisition is the science that underpins movement learning and execution and is more commonly termed motor learning and control (William and Ford‚2009). Skill acquisition is learned in a hierarchical structure which means it progresses in stages. Fitts suggested that there are three stages to learning a skill. The first stage is the Cognitive stage‚ this is the first stage where the activity is introduced and the performer comes to terms with the instructions. Depending on the skills needed
Premium Education Learning Teacher