10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MONOLINGUIST»
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monolinguist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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English Pronouncing Dictionary
It should be noted that the schwa vowel,/a/, never appears in stressed syllables
and has a different distribution to the other short vowels. monolith - mooli © ,mu:.
na'-, -noo'- -s -s monolith 'mDn.au.li9©. monarchjy - monolinguist ...
Daniel Jones, Peter Roach, James Hartman, 2006
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Reduction, Explanation, and Realism
Take Loar's example of Pierre, a monolinguist living in Paris who acquires a
belief which he expresses by saying 'Londres est jolie'.9 Some time later he
moves to London and, having learnt English, believes something which he
expresses by ...
David Owain Maurice Charles, Kathleen Lennon, 1992
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The Governess: a repertory of female education
... gave them a prince who could speak no other language than theirs (i.e., as we
understood it, at the time of his presentation to them) but we never knew, till
informed by Mrs, Gibbon, that the Prince of Wales was- required to be a
monolinguist.
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The Cultured Chimpanzee: Reflections on Cultural Primatology
... empiricist (not theoretician), publisher (not story-teller), monolinguist (not
polyglot), and evolutionist (not creationist). In the last 10 years, as cultural
primatology has emerged as an entity, it has done so in parallel with the 'culture
wars' in the ...
William Clement McGrew, 2004
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Alien Among Anxious Artists
The language of approximately 1 percent of the Swiss population who live in an
area little more than one hundred fifty square miles. A rare encounter with a
monolinguist living in a line-of-sight world. The Romansh farmer comes to mind
after ...
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Diamond Gem English Dictionary
... custom of marriage with one wife, monolatry n. worship of one god.
monolingual a. of one language. monolinguist ft one who speaks only one
language. monolith n . pillar o r column of a single stone. monolithic a. pertaining
to or resembling ...
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Outside in the Teaching Machine
... woman from a hegemonic monolinguist culture who makes everybody's life
miserable by insist- ing on women's solidarity at her price. I am uncomfortable
with notions of feminist solidarity which are celebrated when everybody involved
is ...
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 2012
So, from early on, I resolved that I—a monolinguist—would do everything that I
could do to make sure that they would learn to speak more than one language. I
think it started in washington. I still get unmitigated grief, from both the girls and ...
9
Sacred Speech: A Practical Guide for Keeping the Spirit in ...
What is a monolinguist? An American.” More powerful nations often get other
people to speak their language rather than learning the tongue of the “other.”
English is probably the one language that can “unBabel” the world for you. Those
who ...
10
Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home
It might easily happen that a French lady and an American, neither
understanding the tongue of the other, meet at the house of an Italian, where
there is also an Italian monolinguist, so that the hostess has to talk in three
languages at once.
8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MONOLINGUIST»
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monolinguist is used in the context of the following news items.
Auckland's great, big melting pot
"There was only one monolinguist, like me, among them." He's envious of those kids who slip effortlessly between languages. Bermingham is ... «New Zealand Herald, Jun 15»
Things I Can Say About MFA Writing Programs (As a Teacher) Now …
I worked with a number of professors who were monolinguist memoirists in the classroom. One of my "Real Deal" teachers had an excuse ... «Huffington Post, Mar 15»
Protecting Our Cultural Endangered Species: School Policies
In 1925, after years of skirmishes, the Minister of Education finally laid down the monolinguist gauntlet: only French was to be used in all ... «Huffington Post, Nov 14»
Learning a New Language Later in Life Helps Keep Your Brain …
This means that if you're a 74-year-old monolinguist who's always wanted to dabble in Croatian or something, there's no better time to start than now. For more ... «Big Think, Sep 14»
A paean to polyglots
The words and phrases just don't come naturally, especially when you're a monolinguist at the ripe old age of 50-something. Also, grammar. «rabble.ca, Sep 14»
Is it time to start feeling sorry for Rupert Murdoch?
Nadine's pluck in resisting the tide of public opinion only cements our affection, and to her we say this, even if she is a monolinguist in the ... «The Independent, Dec 13»
'Whiteness is constantly thrown in our face'
Gutierrez frequently talks about her desire for Scott to become a Spanish immersion school, to overcome the problems with a “monolinguist” ... «Portland Tribune, Oct 12»
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... talter thiocarbonate met cyclical hickscorner claviculus styrenes mudrocks leonine sublettable placatory sentisection gallivanter monolinguist ... «What Digital Camera, Sep 10»
