The acquisition of aspectuality by Russian children : the early stages

The article deals with the analysis of the development of aspectuality at the early stages of the acquisition of Russian. Data from seven children are investigated for this purpose. It is claimed that the category of aspectuality, being the property of the whole utterance, can be expressed at the early stages of language acquisition even before the verb itself occurs. During this period some children mark the basic aspectual opposition "process-result" by the linguistic devices at their disposal, namely by various uses of sound imitations or onomatopoetics. Onomatopoetics, when used once, can be said to be the predecessors of perfective verbs, while reduplicative use of onomatopoetics seems to correspond to the imperfective aspect. The paper presents an analysis of the early verb lexicons of six children. Among their 24 earliest verbs both aspects are represented. As revealed by the analysis, aspect (and Aktionsart) clusters with tense in a specific way: imperfective verbs are mainly used in the present while perfectives are used mostly in the past

Pengaruh Pengeluaran Pemerintah Dan Investasiterhadap Pertumbuhan Ekonomi Dan Kesenjanganpendapatan(Studi Empiris Pada Kabupaten/Kotaprovinsi Jawa Barat, Jawa Tengah, Dan Jawa Timur Tahun 2011-2013)

Good economic development is an achievement to be obtained every region in Indonesia. But with the economic growth, investment allocation uneven, as well as the different levels of government spending will lead to inequality and income disparities between regions. The purpose of this study is to analize the effect of government spending and investment to economic growth and the income gap of Regency/City in West Java, Central Java, and East Java 2011-2013. The sample used in this research are all Regencies /Cities in West Java, Central Java, and East Java in 2011-2013. The sampling method by purposive sampling. The number of samples collected as many as 102 regencies/cities. The data outliers 30 regencies/cities of the sample was 72 regencies/cities. In this study, using path analysis ( path analysis). Before the path analysis has been performed classical assumption test. The results showed that government spending does not significantly influence economic growth, while investment positive and significant imp act on economic growth. Furthermore, the partial government spending and investment no significant effect on the income gap, while economic growth is negative and significant effect on the income ga

A Hamiltonian Boussinesq model with horizontally sheared currents

We are interested in the numerical modeling of wave-current interactions around beaches’ surf zones. Any model to predict the onset of wave breaking at the breaker line needs to capture both the nonlinearity of the wave and its dispersion. We have formulated the Hamiltonian dynamics of a new water wave model. This model incorporates both the shallow water model and the potential flow model as limiting systems. The variational model derived by Cotter and Bokhove (2010) is such a model, but the variables used have been difficult to work with. Our new model has a three-dimensional velocity field consisting of the full three-dimensional potential field plus horizontal velocity components, such that the vertical component of vorticity is nonzero. Our aims are to augment the new model locally with bores and to derive a numerical finite element discretization of the new model including the capturing of bores. As a preliminary step, the variational finite element discretization of Miles’ variational principle coupled to an elliptic mesh generator is shown

Early verb development in one russian-speaking child

This paper investigates the development of verbal inflection in the early stages of the acquisition of Russian. Data from tape recordings and a diary were used for this study

The Economic Role of the Region's Geobrand in Strengthening the Educational Trend of Foreign Youth Migration

The article considers the influence of the geobrand of Yekaterinburg and the Sverdlovsk oblast with regards to attracting foreign students to the universities in the region. It provides the statistics on the positive economic impact of the geobrand on the educational trend of foreign youth migration. What attracts foreign students is not only the university, but also the region itself. In case of Yekaterinburg, it is a well-known geobrand created historically purposefully or spontaneously. Large-scale international events held in the region contribute a lot to the worldwide recognition of the geobrand. It attracts additional resources and determines the competitive position of the area both locally and globally. With the development of digital culture, information society and the media space, it is possible to increase the region’s competitiveness and investment attractiveness. It is essential for improving its image and for its positive perception internally and externally. Since 2017 Yekaterinburg has been positioned mainly as a cultural and sports capital. Its image is transforming from that of an industrial territory to the image of a developing region. There are 39 higher education institutions located in Yekaterinburg, many of which occupy high positions in the Russian university ranking. Full-time contracts and part-time contracts with foreign students allowed the universities to receive income from the export of educational services. These universities managed to increase their total return on export of their services, which proves the interest of foreign students to studying in Ural universities. The main criteria for choosing the universities were recognition of the university diploma in their home country, interest in the region where the university is located and tuition fee. The sources of information from which they learned about the university were: Internet, World Cup and the university representatives visiting their country. Keywords: export of educational services, economic impact of geobrand, educational migration, geotransformatio

Case marking is different in monolingual and heritage Bosnian in digitally elicited oral texts

Heritage languages may differ from baseline languages spoken in the home country, particularly in the domains of vocabulary, morphosyntax and phonology. The success of acquiring and maintaining a heritage language may depend on a range of factors, from the age of acquisition of the second language; quantity and quality of input and frequency of first language use, to non-linguistic factors, such as Socio-Economic Status (SES). To investigate case marking accuracy in heritage Bosnian in relation to these very factors, we recruited 20 heritage Bosnian speakers in Austria and Germany, and 20 monolingual Bosnian speakers in Bosnia, aged between 18 and 30 years. Participants were assessed remotely in two sessions, on a battery of tests that included a background language questionnaire investigating participants' history of language acquisition, current usage and SES, and a newly adapted Bosnian version of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN). A significant difference in case marking accuracy was found between the two groups, despite the 97% correct performance in the heritage speakers, and an almost 100% performance of the monolinguals. In the heritage speakers group only, errors indicated a trend toward case system simplification as well as uncertainty in distinguishing between case meanings. The use of Bosnian, assessed through quantity and quality of input, as well as frequency of current usage, was shown to be a significant predictor of case marking accuracy in heritage speakers. In contrast, SES and age of acquisition of German did not play a role in these participants' case accuracy. The observed patterns of quantitative and qualitative differences in the case marking accuracy between heritage Bosnian speakers and their monolingual counterparts, in the face of a high level of accuracy, contribute to our understanding of the heritage language attainment in more diverse language dyads where L1 is a lesser studied language

The Supply Chain Strategy in Society and Active Longevity in Russia

Abstract- Born from multidisciplinary roots that include logistics, marketing, management, and sociology, SCM has developed into a distinct field of study over the past fifty years. SCM theory has only recently reached a state of maturation where it produces operationalisable concepts and tools, but progress is being made in advancing both the overarching field of SCM and the specific issues that fall under the SCM umbrella. The authors investigated supply chain strategy as an active longevity’s policy and quality of life of elderly population in the Russian Federation. Factors of the active longevity and reasons that reduce the level of life quality and society of elderly population in 2014-2016 have been discovered. The offered normative and evaluative model of life quality of elderly population and a list of strategies of active longevity are a novelty of the research. A practical importance of the research results is in the using its results to solve national economic issues and to provide the active longevity in Russia

Variational modelling of wave-structure interactions with an offshore wind-turbine mast

We consider the development of a mathematical model of water waves interacting with the mast of an offshore wind turbine. A variational approach is used for which the starting point is an action functional describing a dual system comprising a potential-flow fluid, a solid structure modelled with nonlinear elasticity, and the coupling between them. We develop a linearized model of the fluid–structure or wave–mast coupling, which is a linearization of the variational principle for the fully coupled nonlinear model. Our numerical results for the linear case indicate that our variational approach yields a stable numerical discretization of a fully coupled model of water waves and an elastic beam. The energy exchange between the subsystems is seen to be in balance, yielding a total energy that shows only small and bounded oscillations amplitude of which tends to zero with the second-order convergence as the timestep approaches zero. Similar second-order convergence is observed for spatial mesh refinement. The linearized model so far developed can be extended to a nonlinear regime

Tagalog adaptation of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives: History, process and preliminary results

This paper briefly presents the current situation of bilingualism in the Philippines, specifically that of Tagalog-English bilingualism. More importantly, it describes the process of adapting the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN) to Tagalog, the basis of Filipino, which is the country’s national language. Finally, the results of a pilot study conducted on Tagalog-English bilingual children and adults (N=27) are presented. The results showed that Story Structure is similar across the two languages and that it develops significantly with age

Horizontal circulation and jumps in Hamiltonian wave models

We are interested in the numerical modeling of wave-current interactions around surf zones at beaches. Any model that aims to predict the onset of wave breaking at the breaker line needs to capture both the nonlinearity of the wave and its dispersion. We have therefore formulated the Hamiltonian dynamics of a new water wave model, incorporating both the shallow water and pure potential flow water wave models as limiting systems. It is based on a Hamiltonian reformulation of the variational principle derived by Cotter and Bokhove (2010) by using more convenient variables. Our new model has a three-dimensional velocity field consisting of the full three-dimensional potential velocity field plus extra horizontal velocity components. This implies that only the vertical vorticity component is nonzero. Boussinesq-type simplifications of the vertical flow profile follow directly from the new Hamiltonian formulation, such as extensions of variational Boussinesq models and Green-Naghdi equations. Since the full water wave dispersion is retained in the new model, waves can break. We therefore explore a variational approach to derive jump conditions for the new model and its Boussinesq simplifications