Getting your wires crossed: Evidence for fast processing of L1 idioms in an L2

Monolingual speakers show priming for idiomatic sequences (e.g. a pain in the neck) relative to matched controls (e.g. a pain in the foot); single word translation equivalents show cross-language activation (e.g. dog–chien) for bilinguals. If the lexicon is heteromorphic (Wray, 2002), larger units may show cross-language priming in the same way as single words. We used the initial words of English idioms (e.g. to spill the . . . beans) and transliterated Chinese idioms (e.g. draw a snake and add . . . feet) as primes for the final words in a lexical decision task with high proficiency Chinese–English bilinguals and English monolinguals. Bilinguals responded to targets significantly faster when they completed a Chinese idiom (e.g. feet) than when they were presented with a matched control word (e.g. hair). The results are discussed in terms of conceptual activation and lexical translation processes, and are also incorporated into a dual route model of formulaic and novel language processing

The Fractured Memory of a Mind’s Eye

The work I create is informed by questioning reality/identity, the fractalizing planes of existence our essence occupies, and the artifacts of memory experience navigating through space time. While existing in this realm of oversaturated media and neon glow, I question the effects of pervasive data systems overloading or programming the mental software we possess. My work includes humor as a means of exploring these conventions while also displaying psychedelic surrealist imagery to help break away from the conscious prison this existence births our concept apparatuses within

Voices from D-Day, June 6, 1944

Seventy years on from D-Day, we still marvel at the stoic heroism of the men who contributed to the success of what remains the greatest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare. The Normandy campaign would, in one way or another, prove a pivotal moment in the ongoing world war. A disaster in the campaign to liberate France would set back Allied hopes for crushing Nazism in Western Europe. It would also fray the alliance with the Soviet Union that was essential to defeating Hitler’s forces. By contrast, success would mark not just the end of the beginning of the conflict, but the beginning of the end. There are as many Normandy campaign stories, from both sides, as there are participants. But absent some formal way of collecting them, those stories would disappear with the generation that made this history. That is where oral history comes in. Since the early 1990s, Gettysburg College has done its share to create an archive of World War II memories, covering the gamut of life experience of a generation that grew to maturity during the Great Depression and World War II. Launched in a Historical Methods course in 1991, and continuing into the present day, the World War II oral history project has collected nearly 700 oral histories from the home and battle fronts and places in between. Recordings and transcriptions of each of these interviews are available in Special Collections at Musselman Library. At some point, if resources are sufficient, they will be digitized and available online. [excerpt]https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/libexhibits/1003/thumbnail.jp

The Penobskan Porcupine Panic

This creative writing thesis takes its origins from a ten-page story written for a fiction class in the spring of 2015 and inspired by the song Penobska Oakwalk from the band Quilt

The Penobskan Porcupine Panic

This creative writing thesis takes its origins from a ten-page story written for a fiction class in the spring of 2015 and inspired by the song Penobska Oakwalk from the band Quilt

Towards a Data Strategy for the Ontario Nonprofit Sector

This document presents context to help us think about how nonprofits as a sector can seize the opportunities that data offers. It outlines the strategic value of a nonprofit sector approach to data, the unique strengths we have to build on in Ontario, essential components of a data strategy, and what might come next.In sum: why does the Ontario nonprofit sector need a data strategy, and what could a successful one look like? This document is intended to broaden a conversation about these questions, and gather answers that can help us take the next step together

PS Magazine 1960 Series Issue 085

PS Magazine, also known as the Preventive Maintenance Monthly, is an official publication of the Army, providing information for all soldiers assigned to combat and combat duties. The magazine covers issues concerning maintenance, maintenance procedures and supply problems.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/psm/1084/thumbnail.jp

A Review of Wearable Antenna for Body Area Network Application

A body wearable antenna (BWA) is a fervently look into issue for the examination. In this paper distinctive sort of getting recieving wires are shown which are starting at now available in composing. A BWA is a material getting reception apparatus, which is versatile and comfort. Eventually it isn't imperative that space available for mounting the getting reception apparatus is level, so radio recieving wire should not to change its characteristics in the midst of bending conditions. Spare masters generally work in such an area which is separated by multipath, which cause the obscuring of got signal. So to avoid such sort of issue a multi stimulated gathering device may require. Other than while accepting receiving wire is put over the human body, on account of bidirectional properties of radio reception apparatus in turn around radiation may hurt the wearer's body. So to limit such radiations EBG (Electromagnetic band hole) structures are used