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Purpose: This study reports validity evidence for an English translation of the LittIEARS Early Speech Production Questionnaire (LEESPQ). The LEESPQ was designed to support early spoken language outcome monitoring in young children who are deaf/hard of hearing. Methods: Data from 90 children with normal hearing, ages 0-18 months, are reported. Parents completed the LEESPQ in addition to a concurrent measure of spoken language development, the Receptive-Expressive Emergent Language Test-Third Edition. Normal hearing status and development were confirmed. Results: Traditional scale analyses, in addition to item parameters, are reported. The LEESPQ was highly correlated with the Receptive-Expressive Emergent Language Test-Third Edition (r = .92) and age (r = .90) and had high internal consistency ([OMEGA] = 0.92). Common factor analysis revealed 2 underlying factors conceptually mapping onto items measuring vocal and symbolic development. A latent traits model was the best fit to the data, and item difficulty broadly conformed to theoretical expectations. Conclusions: The present work demonstrates that the LEESPQ accurately captures early spoken language development in a typically developing group of young children. The LEESPQ holds promise as a clinically feasible, spoken language outcome monitoring tool. Future work to identify differences in performance characteristics between typically developing children and clinical populations is warranted., Interest in the early spoken language productions of children who are deaf/hard of hearing (CDHH) has increased in recent years, given the implementation of early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) [...]

In the years following World War II, representations of the Holocaust in Hebrew literature appeared primarily in memoirs, documentary texts, and memorial tomes, not in high literary works. Drawing on Alan Mintz's analysis of S. Y. Agnon's Buczacz stories, this article examines Hebrew translations from Yiddish literature in the 1940s and 1950s as a form of literary memorialization. Focusing on translations of DavidBergelson's Yiddish stories, it traces how editors and translators carefully chose Yiddish literary texts to commemorate European Jewish life rather than recount Nazi atrocities. This literary mode of memorialization was quickly extended beyond the Holocaust to other catastrophes; namely, Stalin's crackdown on Soviet Jewish culture in the late 1940s., One evening in May 1944, at the Mugrabi Theater in Tel Aviv, a Nazi officer berated a Jewish tailor. Suddenly, Hebrew writer Gershon Shofman stood up and shouted, 'This is [...]

The present study consists of a description of the functions of the personal pronoun attested in the Christian Palestinian Aramaic Gospels. Inferences are drawn from the way the pronoun is employed in the translation of various Greek grammatical expressions and from comparing the instances of some Aramaic expressions that can occur with or without the pronoun., 1. INTRODUCTION Christian Palestinian Aramaic (hereafter, CPA) (1) belongs to the western group of the late ancient Aramaic languages that flourished from the 3rd century of the Christian era to [...]

In 1342, Levi ben Gershom dedicated to the newly elected Pope Clement VI a revised version of chapters 4 through 11 of the Latin translation of the astronomical section of his Wars of the Lord. The text was preceded by a dedicatory letter and a prologue, of which no Hebrew version is preserved. The paper presents a critical edition of both texts, with translation and commentary. The circumstances of the Latin translation of Gersonides' astronomical text (date, authorship, modality) are again discussed and some of the author's previous conclusions revised., 1. Introduction On May 7, 1342, the Benedictine Pierre Roger, cardinal-priest of the church of SS Nereus and Achilleus and one of the most valued and loyal councillors of Philip [...]

Introduction From its first issue, published in January 1953, the Lebanese monthly journal al-Adab developed and disseminated a particular strand of existentialist philosophy: what Jean-Paul Sartre called engagement, typically translated [...]

The US writer and literary critic Susan Sontag said: 'There is no writer living today who matters more to other writers than Borges. [...] Very few writers of today have [...]

First published in 1947, 'La busca de Averroes' is one of a number of Borges's short stories that deal thematically with translation and its challenges. In this one, Borges recounts [...]

Abstract: As the language of TV dubbing has remained an important model for the Italian language, this paper compares the Italian-dubbed American TV serials with serials from different periods. The [...]

This paper examines a Mainland Chinese translation of Tolkien's works published in 2001. This edition presents all five books--The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings, in that order--as a single set called Mojie, 'Magic Ring.' In it, aspects of Chinese culture re-construe Middle Earth in subtle ways. Using different lexicons of unreal beings such as jingling, the Chinese term for elves, for example, shifts the meaning away from the physical towards the spiritual or ghostly. This analysis finds intrusions of Buddhist ideas about the afterlife, and Taoist nuances in The Silmarillion's account of creation. However, as these Taoist terms are also present in Chinese translations of the Bible, the translators might have had Genesis in mind as much as the Tao Te Ching., 'To imagine a language,' wrote Ludwig Wittgenstein, 'means to imagine a form of life' (8). One of the strengths of J. R. R. Tolkien's works is the sense of a [...]