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  • 1low — I. intransitive verb Etymology: Middle English loowen, from Old English hlōwan; akin to Old High German hluoen to moo, Latin calare to call, summon, Greek kalein Date: before 12th century moo II. noun Date: 1549 the deep sustained sound… …

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  • 2Language learning aptitude — According to John B. Carroll and Stanley Sapon, the authors of the Modern Language Aptitude Test, the term language learning aptitude refers to the “prediction of how well, relative to other individuals, an individual can learn a foreign language …

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  • 3Low German — Low Saxon Spoken in Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, United States, Canada Native speakers ≈5 million  (date missing) Language fam …

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  • 4Low Rhenish — ( de. Nieder Rheinisch) is the collective name for the regional Low Franconian language varieties spoken along the Lower Rhine in the west of Germany and the adjacent regions in the Netherlands. Low Franconian is a language or dialect group that… …

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  • 5Language expectancy theory — (LET) is a language based theory of persuasion [M. Burgoon and Miller, 1985; M. Burgoon, Hunsaker Dawson, 1994; M. Burgoon, Jones Stewart, 1975)] . The theory looks at the effects of linguistic variations on persuasive messages. It is based on… …

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  • 6Low Dietsch — language area ( Platdietse streek ) in Belgium. legend|#ff0000|Dutch speaking Community (Belgian Province of Limburg) ] Low Dietsch ( nl. Platdiets, li. Platduutsj, fr. Thiois or fr. Platdutch , not to be confused with the generic term… …

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  • 7Language — Lan guage, n. [OE. langage, F. langage, fr. L. lingua the tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See {Tongue}, cf. {Lingual}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression …

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  • 8Language master — Language Lan guage, n. [OE. langage, F. langage, fr. L. lingua the tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See {Tongue}, cf. {Lingual}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the… …

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  • 9Low German (disambiguation) — Low German may refer to: *Low German, a group of dialects spoken mainly in Northern Germany and in Northeastern Netherlands. *A postulated language group consisting of Low German (as in the previous list item) and Low Franconian. That group goes… …

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  • 10Low Lusatian German — (in German: Niederlausitzer Mundart (also English: Low Lusatian Dialect )) is a variety of standard German spoken in northern Saxony and southern Brandenburg within the regions of Cottbus and Hoyerswerda. It is well defined from the Low German… …

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