• The term 30-million-word gap (often shortened to just word gap) was originally coined by Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley in their book Meaningful Differences...
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    Mountain pass (redirect from Gap (geology))
    English-speaking world. In the United States, pass is very common in the West, the word gap is common in the southern Appalachians, notch in parts of New England,...
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  • Leibniz's gap is the problem that thoughts cannot be observed or perceived solely by examining brain properties, events, and processes. Here the word "gap" is...
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  • accidental gap, also known as a gap, paradigm gap, accidental lexical gap, lexical gap, lacuna, or hole in the pattern, is a potential word, word sense, morpheme...
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  • detection. Spell checking - Gap penalties can help find correctly spelled words with the shortest edit distance to a misspelled word. Gaps can indicate a missing...
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  • proteins Gap, accidental gap, or lexical gap, a word or other form that does not exist in a language but could Gap, a kind of ellipsis, e.g.: Gap is an instance...
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  • mass-loss hypothesis later that year. Despite the implication of the word 'gap', the Fulton gap does not actually represent a range of radii completely absent...
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  • organized a cross-sector convening entitled "Bridging the Thirty Million Word Gap". In 2015, Suskind's Thirty Million Words: Building a Child's Brain was...
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  • positions of power over others. Gapjil is a neologism made by combining the word gap (갑; 甲)—the first of Heavenly Stems, which is used to introduce the first...
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  • when only one word of a pair is borrowed from another language, in either case yielding an accidental gap, specifically a morphological gap. Other unpaired...
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  • insufficient to satisfy the demand of foreign customers. The usage of the word "gap"" specifically refers to the positive difference between exports and imports...
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    "Mind the gap" or sometimes "watch the gap" is an audible or visual warning phrase issued to rail passengers to take caution while crossing the horizontal...
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    Legends) 2009, pp. 425–444 Qāf is the Arabized form of the Middle Persian word gâp meaning "unknown". The oldest mention of Gapkuh or the "unknown mountain"...
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    than "and". The word "was" in Genesis 1:2 for some adherents is more accurately translated "became". Such a word choice makes the gap interpretation easier...
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  • generalization of the gap buffer. Linked list Circular buffer Rope (computer science) Piece table - data structure used by Bravo and Microsoft Word Mark C. Chu-Carroll...
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  • A generation gap or generational gap is a difference of opinions and outlooks between one generation and another. These differences may relate to beliefs...
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  • Polvadero Gap, at an elevation of 554 ft (169 m), is a gap in Fresno County, California. The name "Polvadero" is derived from the Spanish word meaning "dusty"...
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    Longman Dictionary Robshaw, Brandon (7 August 2017). "North of Watford Gap" – via WordPress. Manchester Evening News, 23 May 1949 Staffordshire Sentinel,...
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  • The racial achievement gap in the United States refers to disparities in educational achievement between differing ethnic/racial groups. It manifests...
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    A thigh gap is a space between the inner thighs of some women when standing upright with knees touching. In the 21st century, some people in the West...
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    at the end of a word stem, or suffix. This form requires a final-shaped preceding letter, and an inter-word gap in between. This gap can be transliterated...
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  • In linguistics, gapping is a type of ellipsis that occurs in the non-initial conjuncts of coordinate structures. Gapping usually elides minimally a finite...
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    ERIC. Hart, B.; Risley, Todd. "The Family Catastrophe: The 30 Million Word Gap by Age 3" (PDF). American Educator. 27 (1): 4–9. Knapp, Nancy (2016). The...
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  • was his graduate student at the University of Kansas at the time, on the word gap between rich and poor children. He was also a co-founder and editor-in-chief...
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  • between vocabulary learning and social inequality, in particular the "word gap". She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, went on to...
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  • Rah (slang) (redirect from Rah (slang word))
    perceived and much-parodied upper-class pronunciation of the word 'year' in the phrase 'gap year'. Rahs stereotypically study at prestigious institutions...
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  • In management literature, gap analysis involves the comparison of actual performance with potential or desired performance. If an organization does not...
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  • World War II, a new stage of life was being recognized due to the generation gap many youths experienced between their parents as a result of being brought...
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  • second by Margaret Talbot about an effort in Providence to close the "word gap", both informed Chan as she wrote the story. The novel includes a large...
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  • part of speech or part-of-speech (abbreviated as POS or PoS, also known as word class or grammatical category) is a category of words (or, more generally...
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