The voice of the political commentator droned through the speakers, reporting nonchalantly that many Dominican families lacked running water and electricity.
The speaker who is identical with the addressee and agent of the modal situation expresses an obligation he himself is under in 23b, and in 23c, the speaker reports an obligation on a third person.55 (23) a. 君必殺之 (國語 guóyŭ 晉語八 Jìn 8) jūn__bì__shā__zhī Prince__BI__kill__OBJ You must kill him! b.
In the early 21st century, only slightly more than one-fourth of the ethnic population of some 6,000 Veps still consider the language their native tongue a sharp decline from the 26,172 speakers reported in the mid-1800s.
The differences between the data from the control group in the present study (the majority of whom were British English speakers) and the American English speakers reported in Kita and Özyürek (2003) were unexpected and, in the case of "roll" in particular, were striking.
This piece has been updated to count only the speakers the RNC released Thursday, without the inclusion of three additional speakers reported by The New York Times.
Climate models are bigger and more sophisticated than ever, speakers reported at the meeting, but they are yielding the same wide range of possible warming and precipitation changes as they did 5 years ago.
Speakers reported on the recent outbreaks of avian influenza in Yamaguchi, Oita, and Kyoto; the crisis control measures being implemented to curb the spread of the disease; and Dr. S. Y. Lin, Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine, Taiwan, and finding and eradicating the H5N2 subtype of avian influenza virus in Taiwan.
The majority (84.3%) of dual language speakers reported 'other' language than Sami (native Norwegian 1.6%), English (9.6%), or combinations of these (2.3%).
Likewise, in a postscanning reading test, English Italian speakers reported more second language words as unknown than the Italian English speakers (F29 = 14.42, P < 0.001).
South Asians, both English and Punjabi speakers, reported significantly lower acceptability of wait times for PHC.
