The presence of a primary male caregiver affects children's language skills

This study aimed to determine whether the presence or absence of a primary male caregiver influences a child's language skills. A language test was administered to 342 Afrikaans-speaking 4- to 9-year-olds from various socioeconomic backgrounds. The average percentile ranks for the composite language score as well as for the separate language domains of those participants with primary male caregivers was compared to the percentile ranks of those participants without such caregivers. The group with primary male caregivers fared significantly better, implying that the presence of a primary male caregiver has an influence, direct or indirect, on children's language skills.   Keywords: primary male caregivers, Afrikaans, child language skill

Spesifieke Taalgestremdheid En Taalwetenskaplike Teorie: 'N Evaluerende Oorsig

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The clinical evaluation of the expressive syntax of bilingual english pre-schoolers in the greater cape town area: suggested modifications to the 1981 LARSP profile

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Die begrip en produksie van persoonlike voornaamwoorde deur Afrikaanssprekende 6-jariges

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Clinical Implications Of Childhood Bilingualism

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On accounting for problems demonstrated by children with SLI in the interpretation and production of passive construction

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Linguistic characteristics of SLI in Afrikaans

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Low-altitude signatures of the cusp and flux transfer events

The usual interpretation of a flux transfer event (FTE) at the magnetopause, in terms of time-dependent and possibly patchy reconnection, demands that it generate an ionospheric signature. Recent ground-based observations have revealed that auroral transients in the cusp/cleft region have all the characteristics required of FTE effects. However, signatures in the major available dataset, namely that from low-altitude polar-orbiting satellites, have not yet been identified. In this paper, we consider a cusp pass of the DE-2 spacecraft during strongly southward IMF. The particle detectors show magnetosheath ion injection signatures. However, the satellite motion and convection are opposed, and we discuss how the observed falling energy dispersion of the precipitating ions can have arisen from a static, moving or growing source. The spatial scale of the source is typical of an FTE. A simple model of the ionospheric signature of an FTE reproduces the observed electric and magnetic field perturbations. Precipitating electrons of peak energy ∼100eV are found to lie on the predicted boundary of the newly-opened tube, very similar to those found on the edges of FTEs at the magnetopause. The injected ions are within this boundary and their dispersion is consistent with its growth as reconnection proceeds. The reconnection potential and the potential of the induced ionospheric motion are found to be the same (≃25kV). The scanning imager on DE-1 shows a localised transient auroral feature around DE-2 at this time, similar to the recent optical/radar observations of FTEs

Die Effek Van Direkte Instruksie Oor Voegwoord-Gebruik Op Die Sintaktiese Kompleksiteit Van Narratiewe

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Tsumeb: Zincolivenite and the Adamite-Olivenite Series

Tsumeb is one of the world’s premier localities for arsenate (and arsenite) minerals. At least eighty-four species containing the arsenate (or arsenite) anion groups have been confirmed from Tsumeb, which is the type locality for forty-two of them