Just as important is converting what has been learned not only into foreign words (hard enough, given the ambiguities of meaning which all languages display, and the fact that some concepts are simply untranslatable), but into foreign sentences.
Overhearing fragments of foreign sentences, he said, as the dial was moved from one accustomed station to another, 'I had already begun a journey into the wideness of the world.
This was grounded in the following sort of model of how a foreign-language sentence f (say, in French) is generated from an English sentence e (which we wish to recover, if the target language is English): First, e is generated according to some simple model of English, for instance one based on bigram frequencies.
This may be the reason for faster adjustment or normalization to familiar compared with foreign-accented sentences [ Floccia et al. 2006, although this pattern was not evident for single words; see also Evans and Iverson (2004) and Cristia et al. (2012) for a comprehensive review].
In exchange for what prosecutors called Mr. Babar's "substantial" and "extraordinary" cooperation with the F.B.I., federal prosecutors in Manhattan and foreign governments, his sentence was reduced by the United States District Court in Manhattan to time served after four years and eight months in prison.
BAGHDAD — A British contractor who admitted to murdering two other foreign contractors was sentenced by an Iraqi court on Monday to 20 years in prison, the first sentence imposed on a Westerner here since Saddam Hussein was overthrown in 2003.
More important, he said, "foreign laws and sentencing practices" are "irrelevant to the meaning of our Constitution".
While Mexico may be the most active, because of the numbers, he said that the problem of foreign nationals being sentenced to death "transcends Mexico".
Most recently, he has been charged with breaking the restrictions by talking to foreign media and sentenced to six months in prison; when he appealed, this was commuted to community service.
Even if allies of the al-Khalifa family were to lose control of the lower house, the appointed upper house can overrule it.Tariq Aziz, Saddam Hussein's long-serving foreign minister, was sentenced to death by Iraq's Supreme Court for his part in crimes committed during his period in office, including complicity in murder.
