A Phonology Of Hill (kone-Tu) Asho

Asho (ISO 639-3: csh) is a Tibeto-Burman language in the Southern Chin branch of Kuki-Chin. It is spoken by about 170,000 people, primarily in western and west-central Myanmar (Simons & Fennig 2018). Although Asho received some early attention in the studies of Tibeto-Burman languages (Houghton 1892; Joorman 1906), it has remained mostly unstudied for the past century. Current data confirm the traditional distinction of two basic dialects of Asho (Hill and Plains), and this paper focuses on the Hill or âKone-tuâ dialect. The Hill dialect has 26 consonants (compared to 29 in the Plains dialect), and both dialects have 14 vowels (11 simple vowels and 3 diphthongs). There is a basic syllable structure of CCVC and two level tones (high and low). A two-tone system is unusual among Kuki-Chin languages, but this research shows how Ashoâs tone supports and clarifies the subgrouping of Southern Chin languages. Asho is notable for the numerous commonalities that it shares with Burmese vis-Ã -vis more closely related Kuki-Chin languages. Most notably, both Asho and Burmese have palatalized velar plosives in front vowel environments and lost place distinctions on syllable-final consonants. The more conservative Hill dialect retains more Kuki-Chin characteristics than the Plains dialect, which has had significant contact with Burmese and shows stronger similarities with Burmese

Bibliometic Analysis of Reading Research in Deaf Education Journals

There are known differences in reading development between DHH and hearing populations, but there is limited research in the field of reading development in DHH populations. The aim of this study is to use bibliometric analysis to examine two major journal outlets focused on the advancement of the education of children and adults who are DHH to determine 1) the extent to which the peer-reviewed literature focuses on reading instruction and its five elements; 2) the most influential authors being cited in this area of research; 3) the age of the research being cited; 4) the influence of related disciplines on instructing children who are deaf and hard of hearing in reading. Results showed a limited amount of articles published related to reading and the majority of those articles related to reading in general. The most frequently cited authors and journals shows that this is a highly insular field and there is collaboration with other broad fields. Two of the most influential reading journals were cited fairly often. Although phonology was not listed as being a topic frequently published within the journals, it was the topic of the most frequently cited article. The majority of the research cited was published between 2001 and 2011

What was I created for, I wonder? : occupation for women in Shirley and Cranford

Charlotte Brontë\u27s Shirley and Elizabeth Gaskell\u27s Cranford unite in asking and answering the question of what unmarried women were supposed to do with their time and talents in Victorian England, considering the constraints of both gentility and economic conditions. In writing these novels, Brontë and Gaskell joined mid-nineteenth century feminists such as Francis Power Cobbe and Florence Nightingale in discussing women\u27s occupation. Cranford, rather than presenting the typical young unmarried woman as its heroine, features a community of old maids as its heroines, revealing their story through the narration of Mary Smith. Shirley\u27s Caroline Helstone examines the socially accepted but emotionally unfulfilling occupations of Briarfield\u27s old maids and questions society\u27s treatment of unmarried women. In both novels, skill in storytelling and reinterpreting texts has the potential to free unmarried women from masculine domination, but neither Gaskell nor Brontë can imagine a woman completely free from society\u27s constraints

Effect of Maternal Behavior on Anxiety, Resilience, and Memory in Sprague-Dawley Rats

This study seeks to determine the extent that maternal care of rodents influences anxiety levels, memory, and resiliency in the next generation. After categorizing maternal rats as Good and Bad mothers through a pup recognition test, they and their pups were put through a battery of behavioral tasks to assess anxiety (Elevated Plus Maze), memory (Novel Object Preference Test and Object Location Memory Task), and resiliency (Forced Swim Test). Preliminary results found that Good mothers have superior spatial and non-spatial memory in comparison to the Bad mothers. In addition, the pups raised by Good mothers showed greater resilience in comparison to pups raised by Bad mothers based on escape behaviors seen in the Forced Swim Test. This suggests that the type of mother a rodent is (i.e., Good mother or Bad mother) has on effect on their memory and the type of maternal care received by offspring influences resiliency

Marshall University Department of Music presents the Seventh Annual Middle School Festival Band Grand Concert

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