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Interview with YA mystery author, Valerie Sherrard
No full textAn interview with Valerie Sherrard, a YA author, which focuses on her process of writing the Shelby Belgarden mystery series.
Interview with YA author Vicki Grant
No full textWe feature an interview with Nova Scotian YA author Vicki Grant. Vicki is a prolific author who has written 14 books and has written over 100 episodes of children‘s TV. Vicki discusses her thoughts on reading positively and the meaning behind positivity, her favorite bad-day books, and how we as a community can promote reading positively. She makes us realize the importance of realism in writing and how important it is to connect with young readers
Interview with YA author and Children‘s Editorial Assistant Suzanne Sutherland
No full textAn interview with Young Adult author Suzanne Sutherland. The interview focuses on Toronto, the straight edge scene, music and subculture, Sutherland\u27s first book, When We Were Good and the importance of queer representation in YA books. Sutherland also recommends a number of YA novels
Structural disambiguation of Korean adverbs based on correlative relation and morphological context
No full textThis letter addresses a structural disambiguation method for Korean adverbs based on the correlative relation constraints between adverbs and modifiees, and the morphological context information of sentences. Using the proposed method, we improved the dependency parsing accuracy of adverbs from 79.2 to 89%. The experimental result shows that the proposed method is especially expert in parsing adverbs which can modify multiple word classes or have a long distance dependency relation to their modifiees
Fantastic feminism: An interview with author Tam MacNeil
No full textThis interview with YA author Tam MacNeil explores her experiences as a feminist author, as well as discussing the importance of inclusiveness in YA books
YA Horror Author Profiles
No full textWithin the realm of horror there are a variety of authors that have become prolific. Here is a short run down of some of the most popular horror authors, and those to keep an eye out for
Tlhalošontši ya mongwalo: Go ngwala seo se sa tšweletšego molaetša ka tshwanelo
No full textBontši bja baithuti ba maleme a Bathobaso ga bo tšee mongwalo go ba ye nngwe ya dithutwana tše bohlokwa tša maleme. Ka fao barutwana le batho ba bangwe ba go kgona go bala le go ngwala ga ba sa na le taba le thutwana ye ya mongwalo. Seo se dira gore go be le mabošaedi a mmalwa go akaretšwa a mopeleto, a tšhomišo ya maswaodikga gammogo le mabošaedi a go kgaogantšha goba go kgomagantšha mantšu ka phošo ge go ngwalwa. Mabošaedi a a mongwalo ka dinako tše dingwe a tswala tlhalošo yeo e sa emelwago fao go ka hwetšwago gore motho o ngwadile seo a bego a sa se šupe. Maikemišetšo a taodišwana ye ke ao a latelago: go hlaloša gore tlhalošontši ya mongwalo ke eng, go ntšhetša nyanyeng tšeo di hlolago tlhalošontši ya mongwalo le go lemoša batho bohlokwa bja go ngwala molaetša woo ba nyakago go o tšweletša ka maleba. Tlhalošontši ya mongwalo gantši e tlišwa ke go se šomiše maswaodikga ka tshwanelo le go kgomagantšha goba go kgaogantšha mantšu ka mokgwa wa bošaedi. Go efoga tlhalošontši ya mohuta wo, go bohlokwa go latela melawana yeo e beilwego ge go ngwalwa.English Title: Orthographic ambiguity: Writing the unmeantEnglish AbstractMany scholars of African languages ignore orthography as an important aspect of linguistics. As a result, students and other literate speakers of the language tend to push it to the periphery. This leads to careless punctuation, faulty division of words and unintentionally wrong spelling of words that confuse the meaning. This orthographic ignorance sometimes leads to an unintended meaning, where one writes the unmeant. This article attempts to bring this confusion of ‘writing the unmeant’ to light by exploring how proper use of punctuation marks and word division can contribute to resolving ambiguity in the written Northern Sotho language. Orthographic ambiguity is, in most cases, caused by careless punctuation and faulty division of words. To avoid this, accepted orthography should be followed at all times
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