On increasing of the competitiveness of the garment industry in Siberian Federal District on the basis of the industrial cluster establishment

The issue of the development prospects of the Russian economy and the economy of its individual branches in the regions is highly relevant in terms of the increasing crises and economic development challenges. The scope of the study is a garment industry of the Siberian Federal District, which includes 12 subjects, and only six of them develop the garment industry actively. There are the regions of Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai and the Republic of Khakassia. The subject matter of the research is the state and prospects of the garment industry of the Siberian Federal District. It also includes the assessment of the garment industry as one of the sub-sectors of the light industry in terms of its competitiveness in the domestic market. The purpose of the comprehensive study is to determine the conditions and factors affecting the development of the industry, as well as to identify its development reserves and competitiveness on the basis of industrial cluster’s generation. The hypothesis of this study is that in the Siberian Federal District, there are a need and reserves to create a cluster of the garment industry. The main methods of the study are the comparative analysis, the expert assessment of the sector in certain regions of the Siberian Federal District, as well as the assessment of possible formation of the industrial cluster in the region. The results of the study are the evaluation of the competitiveness and prospects of the garment industry in Russia and the Siberian Federal District (a low level of development and competitiveness); the evaluation of the development level of the garment industry in the Federal District, which have showed the demand for apparel products from the population and enterprises, as well as the conditions for the provision of clothing manufacture with natural fabrics and synthetic materials, labor resources and research and development achievements; also the justification of the existing potential for development of a sectoral cluster by means of pooling together the productions and economic communications of the Novosibirsk and Omsk regions at the initial stage. The obtained results should be used to strengthen works for the development of regional industrial cluster (with a creation of a working group at the regional governments, the garment industry development programs, and practical measures for its realization), as well as a creation of conditions for stimulation of investment activity of entrepreneurs. The research has confirmed the hypothesis, that in the Siberian Federal District, there are a need and reserves to create a cluster of the garment industry

Kurt Braunmüller & Christoph Gabriel (eds.): Multilingual individuals and multilingual societies.

Multilingualism is a fundamental characteristic of modern society. As highlighted by the editors of the volume, Kurt Braunmüller and Christoph Gabriel, in contemporary reality multilingualism is far more prevalent than monolingualism on a global scale represented by a variety of phenomena like diglossia, plurilingualism or receptive bilingualism. Multilingualism has been studied by linguists, psychologists, educational professionals, and social scientists, all of whom have endeavored to generate the state-of-the-art scientific understanding that may disclose potential and challenges that multilingualism poses for the individual in the context of her family, school, other institutions, and society in general. Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies is the thirteenth book volume published in the series Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism. The present book volume provides a multidimensional perspective on contemporary research in multilingualism with a special focus on individual and societal aspects of this phenomenon. The volume consists of 25 contributions organized into three thematic blocks: (1) the acquisition of multilingualism, (2) historical aspects of multilingualism and variance, and (3) multilingual communication. Each block addresses a variety of issues as they relate to language acquisition, language change and language use in multilingual settings

What do asymmetries in children’s performance tell us about the nature of their underlying knowledge?

This paper examines the course of acquisition of the semantic gender criterion by studying children’s overregularization rates with two subtypes of Russian nouns: male kinship terms and male names in –a. Twenty-five Russian children aged 2;6-4;0 participated in this empirical study. The asymmetry found in their agreement production for the individual male kinship terms is explained along the lines of the Words and Rules model (Pinker 1999). That is, the asymmetry between the high- and low-frequency nouns is attributed to input frequencies. Yet, frequency is not the only factor which is responsible for the asymmetries children’s production. In addition, the differences in the semantic representation of proper names vs. common nouns may be another factor that plays a role