Sentences with phrase «between language groups»

Indigenous people are culturally distinct within and between language groups and regions.

Two study aims were to use novel whole - genome sequence data to (1) study possible correlations between language groups and genetic clustering, and (2) investigate the ancestral compositions of these individuals, including maternal and paternal lineages.

Not exact matches

Richard Bernstein calls this approach pluralistic: not a «flabby» pluralism, where we simply accept a variety of perspectives, vocabularies, paradigms, and language games, each on an equal footing; nor a «fortress - like» pluralism, where disparate groups work out of isolated frameworks and there is no communication between them; but rather an «engaged pluralism» where we acknowledge our fallibility and try to be responsive to the claims of others.

In spite of the vast differences in languages and cultures among group members and between them and us as leaders, remarkable things happened.

Thus, the polarization between the prolife and prochoice groups results in different value languages that allow no compromise.

The researchers found that there were no statistically significant differences in average composite scores on measures of cognitive, language, or motor skills between groups.

«Translation uncovers a disagreement between two languages on how concepts are grouped under a single word,» says co-author and Santa Fe Institute and Oxford researcher Hyejin Youn.

Several groups are now hard at work gleaning more details about the relationship between FOXP2 and language.

DNA samples revealed that a group of nomadic herders, the Yamnaya, swept into Europe from the plains of today's Russia and Ukraine sometime between 5000 and 4800 years ago, bringing their culture and, perhaps, the Proto - Indo - European language with them.

A joint group of researchers from Chuo University, Japan Women's University and Tohoku University has revealed that infants aged between 5 and 7 months hold the representation of color categories in their brain, even before the acquisition of language.

Existing theories of language evolution suggest that vocal exchanges between primates evolved with group size, he said.

For other occupations, there was no difference between the speech and language disorders group and the Alzheimer's group.

Harvard's Steven Pinker, the celebrated author of The Blank Slate and an expert on the evolution of language and the mind, addressed that point in an interview in New Scientist magazine: «People, including me, would rather believe that significant human biological evolution stopped between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago, before the races diverged, which would ensure that racial and ethnic groups are biologically equivalent.»

Calling the study «fantastic,» psychologist Lisa Feigenson of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, says that because there is such a «drastic» difference in number sense between the Pirahã and most other human groups, it must be their language that limits their conceptual abilities.

Additional longitudinal analysis of the language environment data revealed no differences between the NICU and newborn nursery groups for percent distant speech at 44 weeks (17.4 % vs 14.7 %; P =.23) and 7 months (24.1 % vs 25.9 %; P =.56) and percent meaningful speech at 44 weeks (15.8 % vs 15.2 %; P =.77) and 7 months (13.8 % and 13.7 %; P =.94), respectively.

Seed - based connectivity analyses were conducted to assess differences between groups in 3 default mode network (DMN) components (anterior, posterior, and ventral) and 4 additional non-DMN networks: left and right executive - control, language, and higher visual networks.

Karachi matchmaking site pidgin is a simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common.

University of Texas researchers Eden Davis and Karen Fingerman suspected that their were contrasts between their motivations for online dating, but wanted to determine this through the content of their profiles, so they conducted a study published this month about the differences in profile language and motivation each age group has when it comes to dating.

The movie's tale of a group of street toughs has drawn comparisons to The Warriors, but I think the better analogy is Spielberg's E.T., not just in that alchemy between the fantastic and the absolutely mundane (South England's Lambeth neighbourhood), but also in the crafting of a living youth subculture alive with its own language, ritual, and custom.

Because of different math backgrounds, learning strengths, reading skills, and English language proficiency, students have varying levels of achievable challenge in different math topics, so flexible groupings should be designed so students can move easily between them, depending on their mastery of specific math topics.

The impacts are presented as effect sizes (which represent the differences between groups in standard deviation units) for eight measured outcomes across the domains of literacy, language, and math.

No significant differences were found between groups on the fifth subscale, language mechanics.

A new REL Northwest study examined enrollment in advanced courses among students from different language groups in Washington state between 2009 — 10 and 2012 — 13.

Many districts have seen measurable gains in reading / English / language arts, math, and science, as well as reduced achievement gaps between economic, racial, and special needs groups.

This definition creates a group of children with considerable language needs who fall between diagnostic categories; it leaves children with both verbal and non-verbal difficulties at a double disadvantage, with limited specialist support.

Otherwise we will remain caught between the usual warring parties: pro-teacher unions versus anti-union groups;... devotees of phonics versus «whole language» theorists; open classroom versus fixed - seat advocates;... those who believe that tests motivate improvement versus those who think tests hold teachers unfairly accountable and create a climate of fear.

In it, state Superintendent Tony Evers acknowledges that «achievement gaps between racial and ethnic groups, students with disabilities and English language learners persist.»

There is every scientific reason to predict that an intensive focus on oral language development during the classroom reading period in early grades will not only raise reading achievement for all students, it will also help narrow the gap between social groups.

Well - designed accountability policy, on its own, does four things well: first, it requires participants to believe that all students can learn and succeed; second, it measures the academic progress of all students over time; third, it highlights gaps between different groups of students (be they racial, geographic, socio - economic, special education and gifted students, or English language proficiency); and fourth, it assigns consequences for not meeting goals around student progress.

Some education advocacy groups have also expressed concern that these higher standards might inadvertently widen the achievement gap between students whose native language is English and English learners.

Accountability ratings are calculated on four priority areas: student achievement in English language arts and mathematics, school growth, closing gaps between student groups, and measures of postsecondary readiness, which includes graduation and attendance rates, third - grade English language arts achievement, and eighth - grade mathematics achievement.

The Registration Group Element: The section is meant for identifying the geographical region, country or the language area and it may be anywhere between 1 and 5 digits.

What more do you need to bring together the many ethnic groups that between them speak more than 700 different languages and dialects, and have created an incredibly complex culture over the centuries.

This group of intergenerational artists closely considers the process of art - making in their work by playing with scale, the ephemeral quality of their materials, the nature of time and language, and the relationships between the objects that they create.

To accompany her exhibition Between the Dog and the Wolf, Van Meel has produced a publication which brings together a group of peer contributors to explore the ways in which specific use of language and words can create a sense of space, time, class and cultural identity.

Brand New Gallery departs from these assumptions to present Beyond the Object, a group show appositely conceived to combine works by artists with disparate backgrounds and from different generations, inevitably forced to confront themselves with production, exploring the interaction between composition and form which radically becomes an archetype endowed with its own language.

One of the original members of the Milan - based Memphis group, Shire has challenged the rigidity of modernist vocabulary and has boldly articulated a novel languages defined by an unexpected visual dialogue between forms and surfaces and between technology and aesthetics.

At the front of the gallery, a group of 16 silver gelatine prints by artist George Platt Lynes — who became American Ballet Theater's official photographer in 1934 — reveal the exhibition's most explicit interchange between a clandestine visual language of homosexual erotics and the cool formalism of early ballet photography.

It's a consideration of self - representation that Camplin has opened into a wider conversation — one that negotiates between the ubiquity of mainstream imagery and the specificities of shared, private language — in her many collaborations with a group of peers including Mark Leckey, Lucy McKenzie, Enrico David, and Paulina Olowska.

What got me most was the magic of feeling I was listening in on conversations between color groupings — how the reds and blues seemed to be speaking (or perhaps singing) in slightly different dialects of the same paint language, some mute or just whispering, other maniacally chatty, muttering or even yelling bloody murder — all which keeps your eye moving back and forth trying to figure out what it all means.»

Community artists joined ASU alumni and graduate students for a group exhibition that used «the visual, conceptual, and material language of the office place» to explore the relationships between being and doing, art and life, and more.

Painting in Italy 1910s - 1950s: Futurism, Abstraction, Concrete Art relays a complex historical account of the fraught relationship between art and politics in Italy during the interwar and postwar period, attesting to the bumps, curves, utopias and traumas experienced by an eclectic group of artists working to assert a new pictorial language by challenging the dominant tenets of their culture.

Her work and confessional visual language, inspired and influenced by confessional artists Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin, grows from her fascination with, and empathy for, the constant existential duel between the isolated individual and the shared awareness of the group.

The melding of the online and in person quality of her work proves that regardless of the realm in which she experiments, her gestures and the tones that she subtly yet specifically sets through her body language and digital morphing resonate with an emerging group of artists who work fluidly between media and presentation platforms.

The thematic group exhibition Keywords and the power of eloquence, conceived by the free - lance curator Nadia Schneider Willen for Kunsthaus Baselland, deals with the complex relationship and interactions between language and power.

A final group of works source vernacular language from auto body collision centers to highlight the relationships between image, body and the self — as in A SELF.

Nicholas Faraclas, a linguistics scholar on the Houma, wrote that like other ethno - linguistic groups, the Houma tribe are a community in which «contact between groups with different languages and cultures is the norm, rather than the exception, and in many cases integrated formally into traditional marriage, trading, and ceremonial patterns.»

You can see the difference between professional and amateur communication in the graphics created for the Consensus Project website / sharing (clean, uncluttered, easy to read, simple language and message) compared to the hash of a slide created by the climate denier group (cluttered, sizing and backgrounds make it difficult to read, white text on black background!

Spokane Police Sergeant Dan Waters visited each of the small groups and gave everyone an emergency language card to facilitate communication between police and English language learners.

Interpreted oral and translated written materials between the native languages (Ukrainian, Russian, Polish) and English for students, parents and school staff, worked with individuals or small group of students tutoring them as requested by teachers, assisted with the development of instructional materials appropriate for ELL students, aquired and maintained familiarity with the State Academic Standards, served as a liaison between students, parents, and school administration, communicated to the teachers any unusual situations or needs of students, performed other duties and responsibilities within the scope of employment.