Sentence examples for measure of language from inspiring English sources

In the negotiations leading to Tuesday's passage of a Security Council resolution on Iraq, Russia pressed for inclusion in the measure of language promising to reinvigorate the United Nations inspectors, but the final version simply pledged to "revisit" their mandate.

To identify novel genetic variants associated with language performance, we analyzed brain MRI and performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) using a composite measure of language performance from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative ADNII; n = 1560).

Our estimates suggest that while use of the computer program may improve some aspects of students' language skills, it does not appear that these gains translate into a broader measure of language acquisition or into actual readings skills.

To determine whether this measure of language was consistent over time, we ranked companies' short-termism on the basis of their 2002 calls and compared the results from subsequent years, finding that more than 80% of firms remained in their original quartile.

The outcome was that ELTS was regarded as a more valid measure of language proficiency and superior to its criterion measures.

Dictation has been shown to be an accurate and efficient measure of language ability (Cai, 2012; Oller & Streiff, 1975), and was deemed appropriate in that it is primarily a measure of aural skills, with the ability to comprehend, and reproduce spoken English being paramount.

At the same time, self-reported measures of language proficiency are subject to measurement error, an issue that has drawn the attention of researchers (Dustmann and van Soest 2002, 2004; Bleakley and Chin 2004).

The impact on gains in language and literacy will be examined using standardized measures of language and reading administered at the fall and spring of the academic year.

Developing reliable measures of language processes such as syntax and semantics is important to address many of these theoretical issues in psycholinguistics.

We assess the impact of the program on students having difficulty learning to read using four different measures of language and reading ability.

Children with ASD and language deficits did not exhibit the anticipated relationships between baseline structural measures of language regions and baseline language abilities, as assessed by the number of utterances displayed during a structured laboratory observation (SLO).