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In linguistics, an adjacency pair is an example of conversational turn-taking.An adjacency pair is composed of two utterances by two speakers, one after the other. The speaking of the first utterance (the first-pair part, or the first turn) provokes a responding utterance (the second-pair part, or the second turn). [1]
In relation to psychology, pair by association is the action of associating a stimulus with an arbitrary idea or object, eliciting a response, usually emotional. This is done by repeatedly pairing the stimulus with the arbitrary object. For example, repeatedly pairing images of beautiful women in bathing suits elicits a sexual response in most men.
An au pair (/ oʊ ˈ p ɛər /; pl.: au pairs) is a person working for, and living as part of, a host family.Typically, au pairs take on a share of the family’s responsibility for child care as well as some housework, and receive a monetary allowance or stipend for personal use.
Anat Ninio examined the speech of a large sample of young English-speaking children and found that they do not in fact learn the syntactic patterns with the prototypical semantics claimed to be associated with them, or with any single semantics. [40] The major reason is that such pairings are not consistently modelled for them in parental speech.
British English meanings Meanings common to British and American English American English meanings waffle (v.) to speak to no purpose; ramble A type of pancake with a pattern of square dents in it, made in a waffle iron. (v.) to equivocate, waver, speak evasively wagon: railway vehicle for transporting goods (US: freight car)
Of course, the reason why children need to learn the sound distinctions of their language is because then they also have to learn the meaning associated with those different sounds. Young children have a remarkable ability to learn meanings for the words they extract from the speech they are exposed to, i.e., to map meaning onto the sounds.
The minimal pair was an essential tool in the discovery process and was found by substitution or commutation tests. [3] As an example for English vowels, the pair "let" + "lit" can be used to demonstrate that the phones [ɛ] (in let) and [ɪ] (in lit) actually represent distinct phonemes /ɛ/ and /ɪ/.
Unordered pair, or pair set, in mathematics and set theory; Ordered pair, or 2-tuple, in mathematics and set theory; Pairing, in mathematics, an R-bilinear map of modules, where R is the underlying ring; Pair type, in programming languages and type theory, a product type with two component types; Topological pair, an inclusion of topological spaces