A study of ceceo variation in Western Andalusia (Huelva)

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan Regan
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Southern Spain ◽  
Dialect Contact ◽  
Societal Changes

AbstractThroughout Europe many traditional dialects are converging towards regional or national standards due to large-scale societal changes such as increased education, mobility and dialect contact. In parts of southern Spain, the long-standing mergers of

The split of a fricative merger due to dialect contact and societal changes: A sociophonetic study on Andalusian Spanish read-speech

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-190
Author(s):  
Brendan Regan
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Dialect Contact ◽  
Rates Of Change ◽  
Speech Communities ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
The Right ◽  
Castilian Spanish ◽  
The City

AbstractIn line with a growing body of literature suggesting that mergers are reversible given the adequate dialect contact and social context, the present study examines the phonetic split of the Andalusian Spanish merger of ceceo into the Castilian Spanish feature of distinción. Specifically, the study analyzes 19,420 coronal fricatives produced by 80 Western Andalusian speakers from the city of Huelva and the nearby town of Lepe using a reading passage and wordlist. The analyses find that leaders of this change are younger speakers, women, those with more educational attainment, those of service and professional occupations, and those from Huelva. The implications are that large-scale societal changes have allowed for the split of the ceceo merger into distinción in both speech communities, albeit at different rates of change due to their unique socioeconomic histories, demonstrating that a split is possible given the right social context.

Urban rejection of the vernacular: The SVS undone

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Dodsworth ◽  
Mary Kohn
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Acoustic Analysis ◽  
Dialect Contact ◽  
Economic Segregation ◽  
Technology Sector ◽  
Southern Vowel Shift ◽  
Regional Dialect ◽  
Vowel Shift ◽  
Conversational Interviews

AbstractIn Raleigh, North Carolina, a Southern U.S. city, five decades of in-migration of technology-sector workers from outside the South has resulted in large-scale contact between the local Southern dialect and non-Southern dialects. This paper investigates the speed and magnitude of the reversal of the Southern Vowel Shift (SVS) with respect to the five front vowels, using Trudgill's (1998) model of dialect contact as a framework. The data consist of conversational interviews with 59 white-collar Raleigh natives representing three generations, the first generation having reached adulthood before large-scale contact. Acoustic analysis shows that all vowels shift away from their Southern variants across apparent time. The leveling of SVS variants begins within the first generation to grow up after large-scale contact began, and contrary to predictions, this generation does not show wide inter- or intraspeaker variability. Previous studies of dialect contact and new dialect formation suggest that leveling of regional dialect features and the establishment of stable linguistic norms occurs more quickly when children have regular contact with one another. Dialect contact in Raleigh has occurred primarily within the middle and upper classes, the members of which are densely connected by virtue of schools and heavy economic segregation in neighborhood residence.

An Overview of Multilingual Learners' Literacy Needs for the 21st Century

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
MaryAnn Christison ◽  
Denise E. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Critical Literacy ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
Multimodal Literacy ◽  
Common Definition ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

The most common definition of literacy is the ability to read and write. However, for teachers working with multilingual learners, the development of literacy skills is much more complex than this simple definition would suggest. Notions of literacy in the 21st century have evolved in response to a number of societal changes, such as globalization, large-scale human migration, and advances in digital technologies. This chapter considers how these societal changes have influenced conceptions and practices of literacy. It provides a brief overview of some important theoretical considerations that inform understandings of literacy development for multilingual learners, including critical literacy, multiliteracies, multimodal literacy, and translanguaging, and explores current conceptions of literacy to help second and foreign language (SFL) teachers better understand how to meet the literacy needs of multilingual learners in the 21st century, offering practical suggestions for teaching from a multiliteracies perspective.

The Passage Graves of Antequera, and Maes Howe, Orkney

1934 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 404-413
Author(s):  
W. J. Hemp
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Southern Spain ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Third ◽  
Good Representative ◽  
Nearest Point ◽  
Large Round ◽  
Paris Region ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town

Antequera, in southern Spain, is in the province of Malaga, a little more than twenty miles north of the city of that name, the nearest point on the coast. The town lies at the foot of the mountains, overlooking a large and fertile plain; while just outside it, near the road to Granada, are three tombs which are notable in several ways. Two of them are less than a kilometre distant, the third lies farther away in the plain itself (pl. liii, I).Perhaps the most striking feature of this comparatively isolated group is their marked dissimilarity from each other in type, one being a good representative of the ' cupola tombs' of Iberia; another, a simple long megalithic chamber and antechamber, built on a large scale; while the third, with its holed stone entrances, recalls the allées couvertes of the Paris region.One feature they share, however, which does not seem to have been satisfactorily recorded, namely that each is contained in a large round barrow. All three barrows are formed of natural hillocks which have been scarped and shaped to form symmetrical circular tumuli.

Large-scale epidemiological study and spatial patterns of Verticillium wilt in olive orchards in southern Spain

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Estefanía Rodríguez ◽  
Jose M. García-Garrido ◽  
Pedro A. García ◽  
Mercedes Campos
Keyword(s):  
Epidemiological Study ◽  
Spatial Patterns ◽  
Verticillium Wilt ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Southern Spain ◽  
Large Scale Epidemiological Study

Implementation and efficacy of a large-scale radiation oncology case-based peer-review quality program across a multinational cancer network.

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (27_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Ethan B. Ludmir ◽  
Karen E. Hoffman ◽  
Anuja Jhingran ◽  
Mee-Chung Puscilla Ip ◽  
Seth D. Frey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Radiation Oncology ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Radiation Treatment ◽  
Target Volume ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Case Volume ◽  
Target Volume Delineation ◽  
Volume Delineation ◽  
Cancer Network

1 Background: With rapid community expansion of academic cancer centers, ensuring high-quality delivery of care across all affiliated network sites is critical. Here we report the results of a radiation oncology peer-review system implemented across a large multinational cancer network. Methods: Weekly radiation oncology peer-review conferences were held between network centers and the main campus of a major cancer system; results of standardized peer-review for each case were recorded. Peer-review resulted in each case being scored as concordant or nonconcordant on initial review; nonconcordance was based on institutional guidelines, national standards, and/or expert opinion. Results: Between 2014 and 2018, 28,730 patient radiation treatment plans underwent peer-review at 10 network centers. The peer-review case volume increased over this study period, from 1,420 cases in 2014 to 9,112 in 2018, concomitant with network expansion. Examining cases reviewed in 2018 (N = 9,112), the most-commonly reviewed cases by disease site were breast (28.9%), head and neck (HN; 13.9%), and lung (12.6%). Of all cases in 2018, 452 (5.0%) were deemed nonconcordant. Higher nonconcordance rates were noted for HN cases (14.0%), and lower rates for lung cases (2.3%; p < 0.001). Of nonconcordant HN cases, the majority (69.5%) were deemed nonconcordant based on target volume delineation. Of nonconcordant breast cases, most (67.1%) were nonconcordant based on radiation field design. For centers added to the network during the study period, we observed a significant decrease in the nonconcordance rate over time after joining the network (average annual decrease of 5.4% in nonconcordant cases; p < 0.001). Conclusions: These data demonstrate the feasibility and efficacy of a large-scale multinational cancer network radiation oncology weekly peer-review program. Nonconcordance rates were highest for HN cases, primarily due to target volume delineation. With improved nonconcordance rates for newly-added network centers, these results offer the promise of improving the quality of radiotherapy delivery across an extensive cancer network with a major academic center as the nucleus.

scholarly journals CURRENT ISSUES OF LEGAL REGULATION OF HUMAN GENOME DATABASES CREATING AND FUNCTIONING

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-144
Author(s):  
Алексей Чемерис ◽  
Владимир Анисимов ◽  
Фарит Аминев
Keyword(s):  
Human Genome ◽  
Genetic Information ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Genomic Research ◽  
Genomic Information ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Genome Databases ◽  
State Organizations

The relevance of the article is due, on the one hand, to the active introduction of genomic research technologies into everyday life and the accumulation of a significant amount of genetic information while providing medical care and other genome screening and sequencing services by private and state organizations. On the other hand, it is relevant due to the beginning of the implementation of large-scale government projects to create an information-analytical system for storing and processing genetic data. In these circumstances, the issues of developing an effective legal regulation of creating and functioning of human genome databases are of particular importance. Aim: to study the requirements of international and national standards for statutory regulation of relations connected to genomic researches, as well as to collecting, processing, storing and using genetic information. Methods: in the study formal logical and general scientific methods of scientific knowledge are used; private scientific (comparative legal, formal dogmatic) methods are used. Results: Based on these requirements, the current national legislation is assessed, an urgent need is defined to adopt a special federal law on the protection of genomic information, which enshrines the necessary rules on procedures for forming relevant databases, the procedure for storing and using the resulting genomic information, as well as the legal regime of the information contained in the database.

Implementing the Great American Outdoors Act in the Era of Sustainable Recreation: Time for a Mission 2030?

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale Blahna ◽  
Steve Selin ◽  
Wade Morse ◽  
Lee Cerveny
Keyword(s):  
Water Conservation ◽  
Outdoor Recreation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Process Step ◽  
Equity Values ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
First Time ◽  
Critical Process

The Great American Outdoors Act (AGOA) fully and permanently funds the Land and Water Conservation Fund for the first time since it was created in 1964. This is a boon for purchasing conservation lands, but equally important, the act provides funding to address massive federal agency recreation infrastructure backlogs. The last major overhaul of the U.S. parks and outdoor recreation system was over 50 years ago, during the era of Mission 66 and related programs. Since that time, a host of environmental and societal changes necessitates new approaches for updating conservation and recreation opportunities. In addition to acquiring critical park and conservation lands, and developing and updating facilities, new park and recreation goals include increasing public use and visitor diversity and advancing environmental justice, public health, and large-scale conservation goals. Integrated systems analyses are needed to address these diverse concerns across landscapes, regions, and jurisdictions, and new interagency and interdisciplinary approaches will be needed. This is a bureaucratic crossroads: for the first time in decades we can truly advance public access, human health, and social equity values of public lands; the GAOA is a critical process step toward, but not the culmination of, this goal.

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