A Sense of Detachment, in 1972, with its attack on the corruption of language and the prevalence of pornography, found few supporters.
How much does the choice of a programming language influence the prevalence of bugs in the resulting code?
We outline key challenges stemming from the complexity and subtlety of language use, the prevalence of creative and non-standard language, and the lack of paralinguistic information, such as tone and stress markers.
These countries were selected because of availability of survey data as part of the latest DHS rounds and because they provide a mix of characteristics, including geography, culture, religion, political decentralisation, population size, contraceptive prevalence, language, region, and economic indicators, representing some of the diversity in sub-Saharan Africa.
Sound symbolic effects likely occur on a continuum and vary across languages in their prevalence.
They also capture the diversity of sub-Saharan African countries in terms of geography, culture, religious groups, level of decentralisation, population size, contraceptive prevalence, languages, regions, and economic indicators.
The data correspond well with data from studies of Rice et al. (1998) and Tomblin (1989) who also observed a higher prevalence of language impairment among fathers of language probands.
We used a four-group design, including monolingual and bilingual children with and without LI (N = 132), to first investigate the effects of LI and bilingualism on risks associated with a child's early language development and the prevalence of language problems in the family, as reported by parents.
The prevalence of language impairment in kindergarten children is 8% [ 7].
All, with the exception of Whitehurst et al. (1991), report an increased prevalence of language or literacy impairment in families of affected children.
