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31Language federation — Language Federations were formed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century by immigrants to the United States, primarily from Eastern and Southern Europe, who shared a commitment to some form of socialist politics. Some of these groups… …
32Language Weaver — is a Los Angeles, California–based company that was founded in 2002 by the University of Southern California s Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu, to commercialize a statistical approach to automatic language translation and natural language… …
33Language development — is a process that starts early in human life, when a person begins to acquire language by learning it as it is spoken and by mimicry. Children s language development moves from simplicity to complexity. Infants start without language. Yet by four …
34Language arts — is the general academic subject area dealing with developing comprehension and capacity for use of written and oral language. The five strands of the Language arts are reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing (visual literacy), as… …
35Language documentation — is the process by which a language is documented from a documentary linguistics perspective. It aims to “to provide a comprehensive record of the linguistic practices characteristic of a given speech community” (Himmelmann 1998:166, see also… …
36Language proficiency — or linguistic proficiency is the ability of an individual to speak or perform in an acquired language. As theories vary among pedagogues as to what constitutes proficiency [http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/pubs/eacwest/elptests.htm#Definitions] , there… …
37Language Movement Day — or Language Revolution Day (ভাষা আন্দোলন দিবস Bhasha Andolon Dibosh ), which is also referred to as Language Martyrs Day or Martyrs Day (শহীদ দিবস Shohid Dibosh ), is a national day of Bangladesh to commemorate protests and sacrifices to protect… …
38Language engineering — is the creation of natural language processing systems whose cost and outputs are measurable and predictable as well as establishment of language regulators, such as formal or informal agencies, committees, societies or academies as language… …
39Language disorder — Language disorders or Language impairments, as they are also called, are disorders that involve the processing of linguistic information. Problems that may be experienced can involve grammar (syntax and/or morphology), semantics (meaning), or… …
40Language exchange — (sometimes called Tandem language learning) is a method of language learning based on mutual language exchange between (usually two) partners. Ideally, each learner is a native speaker in the language the other wants to learn. Many language… …
