George Yule
Biographic Data
| ID | 83312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Yule |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Yule |
| SIGNATURE | YULE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 151 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1895 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Associative plural marking in English varieties: Investigating the expression of group reference
We normally think of ‘plural’ in English in terms of reference to more than one, as in the use of the word dogs to refer to more than one dog . This is described as the ‘ordinary’ or ‘additive’ plural, which has referential homogeneity in the sense that every member of the group referenced by dogs is a dog . In contrast, there is another type of plural which is used for human groups and has referential heterogeneity, that is, each member of the r…
Discourse Analysis
The metapragmatics of and everything
Formulaic disclaimers
Spontaneous spoken language: Syntax and discourse
The Study of Language
Locally contingent categorization in discourse
Most investigations into the nature of categories have been concerned with lexicalized categories—that is, those that are encoded as a single, lexical item (bird, furniture). This study investigates the creation and interpretation of nonlexicalized categories within discourse, as indicated by the use of general extenders (Do they have good restaurants and stuff. He didn't howl or anything). Such categories are locally contingent, depend on contex…
Religion, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain: Essays in Honour of Patrick Collinson
In this volume seventeen distinguished historians of early modern Britain pay tribute to an outstanding scholar and teacher. Several present reviews of major areas of debate: of the significance of the regulations which determined the social and legal status of professional actors in Elizabethan England, of Protestant ideas about marriage, of the political significance of the Anglo-Scottish Union, of relations between the Churches of England, Sco…
Investigating the communicative outcomes of task-based interaction
Zero quotatives
This study investigates the occurrence of zero quotatives (where direct speech is reported with neither a reporting verb nor an attributed speaker) in the casual conversational speech of American women. In a large number of cases, zero quotative sites in reported discourse can be interpreted on the basis of a simple “next speaker” principle derived from the conventional sequential or turn‐taking structure of two‐party interaction in English. In o…
Attempts to Improve English L2 Pronunciation: The Variable Effects of Different Types of Instruction
This study compared the pronunciation of targeted vocabulary items in spontaneous speech by 23 adult Chinese L1 learners of L2 English grouped into four different conditions reflecting current pedagogical practices: (a) traditional drilling activities, (b) self‐study with tape recordings, (c) interactive activities, and (d) a no‐intervention control condition. One hundred and twenty native‐speaking listeners judged whether there was improvement o…
Enlisting the Help of U.S. Undergraduates in Evaluating International Teaching Assistants
N The steady increase in the numbers of international graduate teaching assistants (ITAs) in U.S. universities has prompted most large public universities to initiate both training programs and screening procedures in order to ensure that those ITAs whose first language is not English have adequate spoken English skills for the task of presenting instructional material to U.S. undergraduates. The focus in most of this work is on the training aspe…
The Variable Effects of Some Task‐Based Learning Procedures on L2 Communicative Effectiveness
This study attempted to evaluate the benefits of some task‐based procedures used to develop L2 communicative effectiveness in spoken English among a group of advanced proficiency learners. Using three information transfer tasks and intervening discussion sessions, we attempted to investigate the actual communicative outcomes of interaction prompted by the tasks. When the intervening discussion focused on linguistic aspects of task performance, th…
The role of staging and constructed dialogue in establishing speaker's topic
Teaching English pronunciation
Teaching pronunciation: Focus on English rhythm and intonation
Current perspectives on pronunciation: Practices anchored in theory
Listening Perception Accuracy of ESL Learners as a Variable Function of Speaker L1
U As we incorporate into our ESL speaking classes a greater number of interactive tasks involving nonnative-speaker/nonnative-speaker (NNS/ NNS) dyads or groups, trying to create the optimum conditions for learners to benefit from negotiated input (Long, 1983; Doughty & Pica, 1986), we have tended to move away from exercises that focus on linguistic form, particularly in terms of the pronunciation and perception of English sound contrasts at the …
Predicting Success for International Teaching Assistants in a U.S. University
In this analysis of the performance of 233 international graduate assistants during a 2-year period, we attempted, via Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and Graduate Record Exam (GRE) scores submitted at the time of application, to predict which of these students would eventually receive positive or negative recommendations to be assigned teaching duties. Students who received negative recommendations were found, on average, to have s…
Resolving Referential Conflicts in L2 Interaction: The Effect of Proficiency and Interactive Role
Extending the research done on the effects of different types of task and different participant arrangements used to foster negotiated interaction among L2 learners, we developed a task that presents specific referential conflicts and analyzed the solutions adopted within two different pairings of learners. Pairs in which the higher proficiency member had the dominant role engaged in little interactive cooperation and in some cases changed the ta…
Interactive conflict resolution in English
In this study involving international graduate assistants in an American university, some members of the outer circle of English users (students from India) were paired with members of the expanding circle (students from China and Korea) to perform a special type of interactive communication task. The task required a 'sender' to describe a delivery route to a 'receiver' on similar, but slightly different, maps. Under the first condition, the more…
Calvin’s View of the Ministry of the Church
Calvin’s view of the ministry is dependent on his view of the Church and his view of the Church is itself controlled by his Christological emphasis. This is not true of Scholastic Calvinism, which before the rise of liberal Protestantism dominated the Calvinist landscape, but is in fact a deviant son of Calvin. The shift was subtle and largely unconscious, so that those brought up in the atmosphere of Scholastic Calvinism felt some unease but cou…
Paying Attention to Pronunciation: The Role of Self-Monitoring in Perception
U It is widely recognized that a crucial component in developing effective second language pronunciation is, in fact, the development of particular listening skills. In many textbooks ostensibly dedicated to improving ESL pronunciation, a substantial number of exercises are devoted to making sure that the student, as listener, can first recognize the types of sound distinctions that are phonemic in English. As Prator and Robinett (1985) claim in …
Learners in Transition: Evidence from the Interaction of Accuracy and Self-Monitoring Skill in a Listening Task
Based on the observation that some ESL learners appear to regress in performance during language learning when traditional test accuracy scores are used, another aspect of students' performance was investigated. Using a confidence-rating scale, the self-monitoring abilities of 67 intermediate ESL students enrolled in a University-level pronunciation/listening course were assessed over a seven week period and compared with test accuracy scores. Re…
Comprehensible Notions
Journal Article Comprehensible Notions Get access GEORGE YULE GEORGE YULE Louisiana State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume 7, Issue 3, Autumn 1986, Pages 275–283, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/7.3.275 Published: 01 October 1986
Zero quotatives
This study investigates the occurrence of zero quotatives (where direct speech is reported with neither a reporting verb nor an attributed speaker) in the casual conversational speech of American women. In a large number of cases, zero quotative sites in reported discourse can be interpreted on the basis of a simple “next speaker” principle derived from the conventional sequential or turn‐taking structure of two‐party interaction in English. In o…
Speakers' topics and major paratones
The metapragmatics of and everything
Formulaic disclaimers
Resolving Referential Conflicts in L2 Interaction: The Effect of Proficiency and Interactive Role
Extending the research done on the effects of different types of task and different participant arrangements used to foster negotiated interaction among L2 learners, we developed a task that presents specific referential conflicts and analyzed the solutions adopted within two different pairings of learners. Pairs in which the higher proficiency member had the dominant role engaged in little interactive cooperation and in some cases changed the ta…
New, current and displaced entity reference
The role of staging and constructed dialogue in establishing speaker's topic
On the Correlation of total Pauperism with Proportion of Out-Relief
Locally contingent categorization in discourse
Most investigations into the nature of categories have been concerned with lexicalized categories—that is, those that are encoded as a single, lexical item (bird, furniture). This study investigates the creation and interpretation of nonlexicalized categories within discourse, as indicated by the use of general extenders (Do they have good restaurants and stuff. He didn't howl or anything). Such categories are locally contingent, depend on contex…
Attempts to Improve English L2 Pronunciation: The Variable Effects of Different Types of Instruction
This study compared the pronunciation of targeted vocabulary items in spontaneous speech by 23 adult Chinese L1 learners of L2 English grouped into four different conditions reflecting current pedagogical practices: (a) traditional drilling activities, (b) self‐study with tape recordings, (c) interactive activities, and (d) a no‐intervention control condition. One hundred and twenty native‐speaking listeners judged whether there was improvement o…
Paying Attention to Pronunciation: The Role of Self-Monitoring in Perception
U It is widely recognized that a crucial component in developing effective second language pronunciation is, in fact, the development of particular listening skills. In many textbooks ostensibly dedicated to improving ESL pronunciation, a substantial number of exercises are devoted to making sure that the student, as listener, can first recognize the types of sound distinctions that are phonemic in English. As Prator and Robinett (1985) claim in …
Wage Earners' Budgets: A Study of Standards and Cost of Living in New York City
Spontaneous spoken language: Syntax and discourse
Investigating the communicative outcomes of task-based interaction
The Variable Effects of Some Task‐Based Learning Procedures on L2 Communicative Effectiveness
This study attempted to evaluate the benefits of some task‐based procedures used to develop L2 communicative effectiveness in spoken English among a group of advanced proficiency learners. Using three information transfer tasks and intervening discussion sessions, we attempted to investigate the actual communicative outcomes of interaction prompted by the tasks. When the intervening discussion focused on linguistic aspects of task performance, th…
Predicting Success for International Teaching Assistants in a U.S. University
In this analysis of the performance of 233 international graduate assistants during a 2-year period, we attempted, via Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and Graduate Record Exam (GRE) scores submitted at the time of application, to predict which of these students would eventually receive positive or negative recommendations to be assigned teaching duties. Students who received negative recommendations were found, on average, to have s…
Interactive conflict resolution in English
In this study involving international graduate assistants in an American university, some members of the outer circle of English users (students from India) were paired with members of the expanding circle (students from China and Korea) to perform a special type of interactive communication task. The task required a 'sender' to describe a delivery route to a 'receiver' on similar, but slightly different, maps. Under the first condition, the more…
Investigating Aspects of the Language Learner's Confidence: An Application of the Theory of Signal Detection
In this study of the performance of a group of adult Japanese ESI learners on a listening test, an attempt is made to discover the relationship between correctness in answering and accuracy in judging the correctness incorrectness of answers chosen. Each time the learners chose an answer, they had to indicate on a 5-point scale how confident they were of the correctness of the answer. While average ratings for correct answers were higher than for…
Enlisting the Help of U.S. Undergraduates in Evaluating International Teaching Assistants
N The steady increase in the numbers of international graduate teaching assistants (ITAs) in U.S. universities has prompted most large public universities to initiate both training programs and screening procedures in order to ensure that those ITAs whose first language is not English have adequate spoken English skills for the task of presenting instructional material to U.S. undergraduates. The focus in most of this work is on the training aspe…
Teaching English pronunciation
Current perspectives on pronunciation: Practices anchored in theory
Luther and the Ascetic Life
Luther’s attack on Medieval ascetic practices in general and on monasticism in particular was not because of asceticism as such, nor even because of the abuses that had come into monastic life, but because much of the theology that lay behind them undercut the evangelical understanding of salvation. This is the chief abomination of monasticism: we had to deny the grace of God and put our trust and hope in our holy monkery and not in the pure merc…
Discourse Analysis
Pragmatically controlled anaphora
Independents and Revolutionaries
Who were the Independents? This is one of the unsolved puzzles of the English Civil War. Contemporaries gave differing answers. To some they were the godly; to others they were “the godly gang.” They were both a Puritan group and a political segment of the Long Parliament. S. R. Gardiner and the Whig historians tended to make a clear connection. Religious Independency was for toleration, and the political Independents were, simpliciter , the part…
On the Correlation of total Pauperism with Proportion of Out-Relief
On the Influence of Bias and of Personal Equation in Statistics of Ill-Defined Qualities
G. Udny Yule, On the Influence of Bias and of Personal Equation in Statistics of Ill-Defined Qualities, The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 36 (Jul. - Dec., 1906), pp. 325-381
Board of Trade Index-Numbers of Real Wages
Wage Earners' Budgets: A Study of Standards and Cost of Living in New York City
An Introduction to the Theory of Statistics
An Introduction to Statistical Methods: A Textbook for College Students, a Manual for Statisticians and Business Executives
Why do we Sometimes get Nonsense-Correlations between Time-Series?--A Study in Sampling and the Nature of Time-Series
G. Udny Yule, Why do we Sometimes get Nonsense-Correlations between Time-Series?--A Study in Sampling and the Nature of Time-Series, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Vol. 89, No. 1 (Jan., 1926), pp. 1-63
Annals of the Royal Statistical Society, 1834-1934
John Wallis, D.D., F. R. S., 1616-1703
It is a pleasure to welcome a volume devoted to the life and work of one of the ‘Original Fellows' of the Society—one of those elected to the Fellowship on 20 May 1663 by the President and Council nominated in the Charter. Dr Scott modestly describes his work as aiming ‘at giving an account of the contributions of John Wallis to the development of mathematics during the latter half of the seventeenth century' and as making ‘an attempt to re-estab…
Class Fertility Trends in England and Wales, 1876-1934
The Statistical Study of Literary Vocabulary
Theological Developments in Elizabethan Puritanism 1
Independents and Revolutionaries
Who were the Independents? This is one of the unsolved puzzles of the English Civil War. Contemporaries gave differing answers. To some they were the godly; to others they were “the godly gang.” They were both a Puritan group and a political segment of the Long Parliament. S. R. Gardiner and the Whig historians tended to make a clear connection. Religious Independency was for toleration, and the political Independents were, simpliciter , the part…
Presbyterians, Independents and Puritans: Presbyterians, Independents and Puritans:some Comments
Journal Article PRESBYTERIANS, INDEPENDENTS AND PURITANS: PRESBYTERIANS, INDEPENDENTS AND PURITANS:SOME COMMENTS Get access George Yule George Yule Ormond College, University of MelbourneParkville Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 47, Issue 1, May 1970, Pages 130–133, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/47.1.130 Published: 01 May 1970
The puritan piety of members of the Long Parliament
Although most historians of the English Civil War pay lip service to Puritanism as one of its main ingredients, as a matter of fact, the analysis of religious conviction is rarely undertaken except, perhaps, in regard to the ministers. How deeply Puritanism impinged on the laity is either ignored or treated in an imprecise fashion or explained as rationalisation of deeper economic or social concerns. The Whig historians, who coined the phrase ‘Pu…
Statistical Papers of George Udny Yule
Pragmatically controlled anaphora
Intonation and Givenness in Spoken Discourse
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Speakers' topics and major paratones
Late Mediaeval Piety, Humanism and Luther’s Theology
In his essay The origins of the French Reformation , Lucien Febvre exposes a number of weaknesses in common interpretations of the Reformation—that it had been brought about because of abuses in the church and especially because of Luther’s anger at these abuses. But what, asked Febvre, does one then make of those independently of Luther, who like Briconnet, bishop of Meaux, worked for reforms, often of a different kind to those advocated by Luth…
New, current and displaced entity reference
Interpreting Anaphora Without Identifying Reference
It is proposed that, by adopting an antecedent-determined account of the interpretation of anaphoric pronominals, we may misrepresent what is actually required in the interpretive process. If we adopt an antecedent plus predicate(s)-determined account, we may arrive at massively over-specified representations which would seem to create a substantial processing load. Since it can be observed that one of the characteristics of conversational speech…
The Objective Assessment of Aspects of Spoken English
Assessment of the spoken English abilities of both native and non‐native speakers typically concentrates on features such as fluency, range of vocabulary, and grammatical accuracy. It is not difficult to find fault with such an approach. While the ability to produce vocabulary items and grammatical structures can be assessed objectively, it does not necessarily lead to effective spoken communication outside the classroom or the test situation. Th…
The Church in the Theology of the Reformers
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Hearer-effects on speaker performances: The influence of the hearer on speakers' effectiveness in oral communication tasks
Experiments were conducted to investigate the oral communication skills of 14 to 16-year-olds and to discover conditions which elicit the best spoken performances. Several conditions were tested, using instructional tasks of different levels of difficulty with speakers of various academic abilities. The performances were scored objectively, using as a criterion the amount of relevant information included by speakers in their instructions. The pre…
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