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    Language is universal with many dialects across the world. Many people consider language as being spoken or written, but it is much more than that. It can be viewed as unchanging and conventional, or regarded as dynamic and changing. Language and literacy can be analysed and examined, broken down to reveal how it is made up of all its intricate parts that form language. The impact of language in different perspectives, affect people in their daily lives, either in a good or bad context. Language

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    surface. But, as he continues to explain, the differences between speech and writing are far more intricate and detailed (Crystal, 2005). To identify the distinctive features of spoken and written language it is crucial to distinguish the differences (Gee et al. 2011) There are a variety of differences between written and spoken English. These include the level of potential interaction, whether the audience can be precisely specified, immediate feedback possibilities, transitory verses

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    detail.This language is spoken in Afghanistan by 5 million people. In this paper I will discuss some characteristics of the frequency adverbs. I will show examples to prove how these adverbs move in the sentences freely and where they occur. What was interesting also is that I found similarities between Dari and English. Frequency adverbs in Dari have common characteristics with English. Both languagesallow adverbs to move in different position. 1. Introduction Dari is a spoken language in Afghanistan

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    Deaf people around the world communicate using sign language as distinct from spoken language in their everyday lives. A Sign Language is a visual language that uses a system of manual, facial and body movements as the means of communication. Sign language is not a universal language, and different sign languages are used in different countries, like the many spoken languages all over the world. Hundreds of sign languages are in used around the world, such as Indonesian Sign Language (ISL), Japanese

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    model, utterances are taken in a pattern to describe their syntactic environment, word by word. This are derived from the study on lexical occurrences in authentic linguistic corpora. According to their studies, each individual word has their own set of patterns assigned to it, which describe the context in which they are typically used. Not just that, every word can also have more than one pattern, according to their word senses. The next theorist in the list is a British linguist, Micheal Hoey, and

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    not properly depicted, these same skills can cause a negative impact, or deficiencies in literacy development. Phonemic Awareness One of the most crucial skills of literacy development is for a child to grasp the concept of spoken word. If a child understands that a word such as pill has three sounds, they may be headed down the right path. This part of phonemic awareness is call segmentation. Most often this skill develops in children who are exposed to a variety of language experiences. These

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    Being Scrawny Words are simply nothing more than a conformed and organized collection of letters that form an authentic sound when read out loud. The meaning of a word is your understanding of the word. Yes, every word does have a general definition specific to that word, but you control the definition and how you let it affect you, if you let it affect you at all. The word inflicts its meaning when it is said and directed toward an individual. The way the word is spoken, and used in context, can

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    ‘Half-Past Two’ and ‘Last Word to Childhood’, present the concept of time being the prompt when the narrator is nostalgically thinking of when they were once children. Whereas the poems ‘Discord in Childhood’ and ‘On the Death of Friends in Childhood’ are associated with the unpleasant versions of childhood, in which the narrators are nostalgic of these memories of being what they wanted them to be.  The first poem is by U.A. Fanthorpe, the writer of ‘Half-Past Two’. The poem is spoken from the overview

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    fārsi is the predominant modern descendant of Old Persian, a southwestern Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan (officially known as Dari Persian since 1958 for political reasons),[7] and Tajikistan (officially known as Tajiki Persian since the Soviet era for political reasons. Phonology , Iranian Persian has six vowels and twenty-two consonants. Historically, Persian has distinguished length: Early New Persian

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    3100 BC- Mesopotamia and Cuneiform The first recorded history of writing tablets comes from Sumer in 3100 BC. The chief of the temple called the 'sangu' (accountant) was responsible for noting animals and other goods to tally the temple's wealth. The images of these goods were simply drawn on lumps of wet clay and lines drawn in accordance with the number of each, allowed to dry in the sun and became a permanent tablet. In Mesopotamia, clay tablets became the most common surface for documenting and

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