Finally, the sample consists almost exclusively of speakers of the Kaqchikel language; therefore, findings may not be generalizable to speakers of other Mayan languages in Guatemala.
Of course, having native teachers is really great, but if you have exclusively native speakers, that's almost admitting defeat".
Although it is right that focusing exclusively on individual speakers' intentions would prevent us from seeing some important facts (as Hornsby 2000 argues), it also vital to recognise the importance of paying some attention to speaker intentions.
For the Chinese and Spanish survey instruments, we used a translation service accredited by the American Translation Association that works exclusively with native speakers and uses an iterative translation-back translation process.
As a result, a single speaker could exclusively use [L] to realize all his /dz/'s throughout, or he could choose to use as many as four variant categories for /dz/ realization.
Native speakers of Mandarin Chinese, for instance, regularly describe time as occurring vertically; English speakers almost exclusively refer to time as if it exists on a horizontal plane, advancing from left to right (Boroditsky & Gaby, 2010).
The thieves, and their invisible directors, are perceived by the French public as exclusively "Roma" — what English speakers often call Gypsies, the nomadic people long idealized as romantic and, for just as long, pursued as petty criminals.
Roshanda E. Pratt is a highly sought after storyteller strategist, television media expert and speaker who works exclusively positioning products, personalities and businesses.
Bernie Swain, chairman of Washington Speakers Bureau, which exclusively represents 187 clients, including Colin L. Powell, Alan Greenspan and Madeleine Albright, said bookings from financial institutions had dropped in the past two months to about 20percentt below the same period last year.
