Week 4 Lecture Regional & Social Dialects WHAT CAN YOU TELL ABOUT THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THESE SPEAKERS? Notes on Examples Reasonable (even accurate) guesses about speaker’s various characteristics e.g. socio-economic or educational background esp. for English accents in Britain • With distinctive regional accent origin even from short utterance Holmes (2008) p. 127 3 Characteristics of Speech • Remember? No two people speak the same! – ∞ sources of variation e
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The San of Southern Africa and the Chumash of Southern California Although the San of the Kalahari Desert and the Chumash of Santa Barbara‚ California shared the life of food collectors‚ the two societies differ greatly in settlement‚ lifestyles and technology. The San and Chumash The San people of southern Africa settled on the northern fringe of the Kalahari Desert. In the 21st century the San started with 50‚000 to 80‚000 people. Because of the arid dry conditions the San people had to rely
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to support automatic referencing and aggregation of census records. • The similarity of this technology to that of CGIS was recognized immediately‚ and led to a major program at Harvard University’s Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis to develop a general-purpose GIS that could handle the needs of both applications – a project that led eventually to the ODYSSEY GIS of the late 1970s. • In a largely separate development during the latter half of the 1960s‚ cartographers and
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Running head: CAN THE MAGIC BE RESTORED? Suburban Regional Shopping Malls: Can the Magic Be Restored? Stephanie Austin Upper Iowa University Suburban Regional Shopping Malls: Can the Magic Be Restored? Imagine yourself as the manager of a struggling local suburban regional shopping mall. What do you think the mall should do to improve its performance? According to the textbook‚ the retail life cycle consists of the introduction‚ growth‚ maturity‚ and decline. (Perreault
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Statement of the Problem * ROI has been low * Employees resistant to change Objectives * Increase ROI through reduction of cost * Get better revenue by improving product and price * Gain trust of Union workers External Assessment Internal Environment Assessment | Opportunities 1. Improve product 2. Create a new line | Threats 1. Get a more competitive price vs other manufacturers | Strengths 1. Company has been operating
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Ministry of Education‚ Science‚ Youth and Sports of Ukraine Ivan Franko National University of Lviv English Department Regional Variation of English Pronunciation Course paper presented by Halina Ihnatiuk a forth-year studen of the English department Supervised by S.R. Avramenko an associate professor of the English department Lviv-2011 Table of Contents Introduction -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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REGIONAL TRENDS IN FDI CHAPTER II Salient features of 2011 FDI trends by region include the following: • Sub-Saharan Africa drew FDI not only to its natural resources‚ but also to its emerging consumer markets as the growth outlook remained positive. Political uncertainty in North Africa deterred investment in that region. • FDI inflows reached new record levels in both East Asia and South-East Asia‚ while the latter is catching up with the former through higher FDI growth. • FDI inflows to South
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INTRODUCTION : A regional trading bloc is a group of countries within a geographical region that protect themselves from imports from non-members. Trading blocs are a form of economic integration‚ and increasingly shape the pattern of world trade. In general terms‚ regional trade blocks are associations of nations at a governmental level to promote trade within the block and defend its members against global competition. Defense against global competition is obtained through established
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Southern Gothic literature has many of the same aspects as Gothic literature; Southern Gothic literature‚ which is a sub-genre of the Gothic writing style‚ is unique to the American South. It focuses on topics such as death‚ madness‚ and the super natural as well has having many mystical‚ bizarre‚ violent‚ and grotesque aspects. Gothic literature has left a deep impression to the people. Influenced by Edgar Allan Poe and Flannery O’Connor wrote stories filled with grotesque characters‚ violence‚
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Small companies typically have difficulty competing against large multinationals when their governments take part in regional trade blocs. What could governments do to help their small companies compete after the formation of such blocs? Regional trade blocs are intergovernmental associations that deal with and promote trade activities for specific regions of the world. The small business world has a hard time competing with big business. The business of trading exports and imports is mostly done
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