new teaching method is used, there may be an improvement in learning that
is due not to the method, but to the fact that it is new. Later on, the improve-
ment may disappear.headn
the central part of a phrase. Other elements in the phrase are in some gram-
matical or semantic relationship to the head. For example, in the English
noun phrase:
the fat lady in the floral dress
the noun ladyis the head of the phrase.
see also modifier, classifier^2
head-first languagen
see parameter
head-last languagen
see parameter
head parametern
see parameter
hearing impairedadj
a term used to describe hearing loss, which recognizes that nearly all people
with severe hearing difficulties have some degree of hearing, known as
residual hearing. The degree of hearing impairment may vary across speech
frequencies (see sound wave), at different levels of intensity. With the use of
hearing aids, people with hearing impairment often learn to use residual
hearing to maintain or improve their communication skills.
hedgingnhedgesn
also weakeners, downtoners, detensifiers, understatements
in speech and writing, linguistic devices that writers use either to indicate
the writer’s lack of commitment to the truth of a statement or a desire not
to express that commitment categorically. Hedges are linguistic items such
as perhaps, somewhat, sort of, might, to a certain degree, it is possible that.
Such items may occur as often as once in every 15 seconds of conversation,
depending on context of communication.
hegemonyn
the predominant organizational and institutional form of power and
domination within the economic, social, political, cultural and ideological
domains of a society, or across societies.
hegemony