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  2. Expressions of dominance - Wikipedia

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    Verbal indicators influence perceptions of dominance. To date, dominance has been linked to vocal control (Lamb, 1981, as cited in Dunbar and Burgoon, 2005), loudness as measured by amplitude (Burgoon and Hoobler, 2002, as cited in Dunbar and Burgoon, 2005; and Dillard, 2000), pitch as measured by frequency (Burgoon and Hoobler, 2002, as cited in Dunbar and Burgoon, 2005; Dillard, 2000 ...

  3. American Sign Language grammar - Wikipedia

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    CUT (verb) → pointer and middle finger tap together once and more intensely. AIRPLANE (noun) → sign for I LOVE YOU is moved forward and backward. FLY (verb) → sign for I LOVE YOU is moved forward once. EXAMPLE (noun) → dominant pointer points at non-dominant palm and is shaken in a particular direction at least twice.

  4. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.

  5. Dominance and submission - Wikipedia

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    Dominance and submission (D/s) is a set of behaviors, customs, and rituals involving the submission of one person to another in an erotic episode or lifestyle. It is a subset of BDSM . This form of sexual contact and pleasure has been shown to please a minority of people.

  6. Control (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The a-sentences contain auxiliary verbs that do not select the subject argument. What this means is that the embedded verbs go, do, and lie and cheat are responsible for semantically selecting the subject argument. The point is that while control verbs may have the same outward appearance as auxiliary verbs, the two verb types are quite different.

  7. ID/LP grammar - Wikipedia

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    In ID/LP Grammars, this rule would only indicate dominance, and a linear precedence statement, such as , would also be given. The idea first came to prominence as part of Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar ; [ 1 ] [ 2 ] the ID/LP Grammar approach is also used in head-driven phrase structure grammar , [ 3 ] lexical functional grammar , and ...

  8. Greenberg's linguistic universals - Wikipedia

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    "If a language has dominant order VSO in declarative sentences, it always puts interrogative words or phrases first in interrogative word questions; if it has dominant order SOV in declarative sentences, there is never such an invariant rule." "If the nominal object always precedes the verb, then verb forms subordinate to the main verb also ...

  9. Dual strategies theory - Wikipedia

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    In evolutionary psychology and evolutionary anthropology, dual strategies theory states humans increase their status in social hierarchies using two major strategies known as dominance and prestige. The first and oldest of the two strategies, dominance, is exemplified by the use of force, implied force or other forms of coercion to take social ...