Little Scot is quite a tot—he lives in a flowerpot! Little Dot is quite a tot—she lives inside a big teapot! This tale of budding friendship and appreciation of differences sure hits the spot!
Sex on the Brain: The Biological Differences Between Men and Women
Go beyond the headlines and the hype to get the newest findings in the burgeoning field of gender studies. Drawing on disciplines that include evolutionary science, anthropology, animal behavior, neuroscience, psychology, and endocrinology, Deborah Blum explores matters ranging from the link between immunology and sex to male/female gossip styles. The results are intriguing, startling, and often very amusing.
This study argues that the domain traditionally covered by 'coordination' and 'subordination' in English can be subdivided into four distinct construction types. The constructions are defined on the basis of differences in their 'interpersonal' structure, i.e. the grammatical encoding of speaker-attitude and speaker-interlocutor interaction. It is shown that the four types constitute syntactically, semantically and pragmatically coherent categories, with differences in interpersonal structure defining and motivating distinct syntactic behaviour, distinct pragmatic functions and distinct semantic classes of clause linkage. The validity of the analysis is demonstrated in three ways.
Pronunciation differences between British and American English
Both BrE and AmE have many different dialects/accents, but thisdiscussion focuses on standard pronunciation (the speech of educated speakers). The differences between BrE and AmE will be described in terms of4 main categories: vowels, consonants, stress, and non-systematic pronunciation differences.
Taking young readers on a journey back in time, this dynamic series showcases various aspects of colonial life. Each book contains creative illustrations, interesting facts, highlighted vocabulary words, end-of-book challenges, and sidebars that help children understand the differences between modern and colonial life and inspire them to imagine what it would have been like to grow up in colonial America.
