Language families/Quiz

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Projected on a world map are the principal language families of the world (and in some cases geographic groups of families). Credit: PiMaster3.

Language families is an effort, in a lecture/article format, to describe the components of a language families, often as applied in linguistics.

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Quiz

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1. True or False, A dominant group for a language family differs from a control group in that it rules the treatment of the control group.

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2. Evidence that demonstrates that a model or idea for a language family versus a control group is feasible is called a

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3. True or False, A control group may be used for a language family to demonstrate no effect or a standard effect versus a novel effort applied to a treatment group.

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4. Complete the text:

A short or realization of a certain or idea to a treament's feasibility for a language family is called a proof of .

5. True or False, A pure language family involves no doing apart from itself.

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FALSE

6. Complete the text:

A proof-of-concept structure of a language family, including a control group, consists of , procedures, findings, and .

7. True or False, The purpose of a treatment group for a language family is to describe natural processes or phenomena for the first time relative to a control group.

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Research

Hypothesis:

  1. Language families are genetically related to the local hominin populations.

Control groups

This is an image of a Lewis rat. Credit: Charles River Laboratories.

The findings demonstrate a statistically systematic change from the status quo or the control group.

“In the design of experiments, treatments [or special properties or characteristics] are applied to [or observed in] experimental units in the treatment group(s).[1] In comparative experiments, members of the complementary group, the control group, receive either no treatment or a standard treatment.[2]"[3]

Proof of concept

Def. a “short and/or incomplete realization of a certain method or idea to demonstrate its feasibility"[4] is called a proof of concept.

Def. evidence that demonstrates that a concept is possible is called proof of concept.

The proof-of-concept structure consists of

  1. background,
  2. procedures,
  3. findings, and
  4. interpretation.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Klaus Hinkelmann, Oscar Kempthorne (2008). Design and Analysis of Experiments, Volume I: Introduction to Experimental Design (2nd ed.). Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-72756-9. http://books.google.com/?id=T3wWj2kVYZgC&printsec=frontcover.
  2. ↑ R. A. Bailey (2008). Design of comparative experiments. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-68357-9. http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521683579.
  3. ↑ "Treatment and control groups, In: Wikipedia". San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. May 18, 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
  4. ↑ "proof of concept, In: Wiktionary". San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. November 10, 2012. Retrieved 2013-01-13.
  5. ↑ Ginger Lehrman and Ian B Hogue, Sarah Palmer, Cheryl Jennings, Celsa A Spina, Ann Wiegand, Alan L Landay, Robert W Coombs, Douglas D Richman, John W Mellors, John M Coffin, Ronald J Bosch, David M Margolis (August 13, 2005). "Depletion of latent HIV-1 infection in vivo: a proof-of-concept study". Lancet 366 (9485): 549-55. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67098-5. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1894952/. Retrieved 2012-05-09.

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