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For example, in the sentence “Peter poured coffee into the cup.” ‘Pour’ is the locative verb, ‘coffee’ is the ‘Figure’ while ‘cup’ is the ‘Ground’. Children and adults were taught novel verbs for actions that involved the transfer of objects to a container.
Antiphon's speech compares the plaintiff's stepmother to Clytemnestra, and his murdered father to Agamemnon, shown in this painting by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin. "Against the Stepmother" is Antiphon's only surviving speech for the prosecution. [12] The plaintiff accuses his stepmother of having murdered his father while he was a child. [13]
A child speech corpus is a speech corpus documenting first-language language acquisition. Such databases are used in the development of computer-assisted language learning systems and the characterization of children's speech at difference ages. [1] Children's speech varies not only by language, but also by region within a language.
The stepmother and sister takes their items, without a word of thanks. When the evil stepsister comes to search for the twelve months herself in the snow, hoping for gifts of her own, the spirits disappear, taking their fire, and leaving the stepsister cold and hungry, searching for eternity. The same fate lay in store for the wicked stepmother.
For example, the authors point out that step parenting is a self-selective process, and that when all else is equal, men who bond with unrelated children are more likely to become stepfathers, a factor that is likely to be a confounding variable in efforts to study the Cinderella effect. [31]
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Research demonstrates that, when exposed to streams of nonsense speech, children use statistical learning to determine word boundaries. [4] In every human language, there are certain sounds that are more likely to occur with each other: for example, in English, the sequence [st] is attested word-initially ( st op ), but the sequence *[gb ...
French director Rebecca Zlotowski makes her Venice Film Festival competition debut on Sunday with drama Other People’s Children, casting the often neglected, sometimes maligned figure of the ...