4 Kelder Kelder 1 The Scandinavian and French Influences on the English Language The English language is a changing language‚ and it has always been one. An English speaker from the twelfth-century would not have understood the English from the seventeenth-century‚ and vice versa. Now‚ no one would be surprised if you ordered a _filet mignon_ instead of beef filet at a restaurant. And‚ if you visit the little village Utterby in Lincolnshire‚ you are visiting a town named by the Vikings. Although
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dissociated acid. When comparing Ka’s‚ most commonly pKa is used‚ which is equal to –log Ka. In this experiment‚ the pKa of an unknown acid is determined by titrating it with NaOH and graphing its pH levels versus volume of NaOH titrated. The inflection point found by graphing is the equivalence point‚ and at half that volume is the half-equivalence point. At half equivalence‚ the [A-] = [HA]‚ so they cancel out in the equation Ka = [H3O+] [A-] / [HA]‚ leaving Ka = [H3O+]. With pH being known‚
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English grammar has minimal inflection compared with most other Indo-European languages. For example‚ Modern English‚ unlike Modern German or Dutch and the Romance languages‚ lacks grammatical gender and adjectival agreement. Case marking has almost disappeared from the language and mainly survives in pronouns. The patterning of strong (e.g. speak/spoke/spoken) versus weak verbs (e.g. love/loved or kick/kicked) inherited from its Germanic origins has declined in importance in modern English‚ and
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one speaks to the other the message will or will not be clear. To communicate correctly the sender’s tone of voice affects the receiver’s feedback. Inflection‚ pitch and volume can have a big difference in how people talk to each other. If the receiver cannot hear very well the volume of the sender’s voice will change as well as pitch and inflection. If words are mispronounced the other person will get confused and the message will not clearly be
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life. Non-verbal communication includes facial gestures‚ voice intonation‚ physical distance‚ and even silences. It is the process of using wordless messages to generate meaning. Non-verbal communication includes non-word vocalizations such as inflection and non-word sounds such as “ah” and “hmm.” Communication is complex. We cannot quantify the relative contribution of nonverbal communication to verbal communication (Lapakko‚1997)‚ but non-verbal communication often provides much more meaning
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same as English. We have other name to call it Pinyin. Chinese is a tonal language: say Pinyin seems like “Alphabets + Tones” like: “nǐhǎo !”—hello! Learn the Tones Mandarin is a tonal language‚ which means if you say a word with the wrong tone or inflection‚ you can be misunderstood. For example: “ma”There are four distinct tones. In Pinyin‚ the first tone: mā(mother) this tone is high and flat with no change in the pitch‚using‘ˉ’as its tone mark.the second tone: má(numb)this tone rises from the middle
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the behavior at wavelength 2 where the basic form (In-)‚ absorbs strongly. As mentioned‚ it is evident that the pH where (HIn) = (In-) corresponds to the indicators pKa. Thus‚ the pKa of an indicator corresponds to the pH of the solution at the inflection point in a plot of absorbance as a function of pH‚ as indicated by the dotted line in figure 1. Hence‚ the ratio of [〖In〗^- ]/[HIn] at any pH can be obtained using the equation below: [〖In〗^- ]/[HIn] =〖A_λ2∙A〗_(λ1‚acidic )/〖A_(λ2‚basic)∙A〗_(λ1
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building block of language is grammar. Grammar is the rules of language that specify how phonemes‚ morphemes‚ words and phrases should be combined to meaningfully express thoughts. Grammar also governs how to use various classes of words and their inflections. Grammar is made up of syntax and semantics. Syntax is the grammatical rules that specify in what order the words and phrases should be arranged in a sentence to convey meaning. By the time one is able to read‚ his or her syntactical sense is highly
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genres have several important differences. The singing in these pieces is quite different. The Erlking involves just a soloist acting in several functions; a man‚ his son‚ a narrator‚ and the Erlking. The vocalist sings each role with a different inflection. In La Boheme and The Valkyrie‚ the pieces require multiple characters. These characters have individual arias and recitatives and dialogue between them. In addition to that‚ the operatic singing is more characterized‚ and has the potential to be
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what the word means‚ when‚ and how it is used. Naylor begins telling her story of the first time she heard the word nigger. She starts by informing us how growing up “the word nigger was used in my presence‚ but it was set within contexts and inflections caused it to register in my mind as something else”. Therefore in the third grade when she was called a nigger‚ it wasn’t really the first time she had heard the word. However she states that even though the word had been used around her before
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