The 1981 Act retained the category of British subject without citizenship as British subject. British subjects are mainly people from the Indian sub-continent and Ireland. It ended the use of the term for those British subjects who had one of the various national citizenships, though the term Commonwealth citizen continues to be used in that regard. Persons who held British subject status based on connections with ...

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History of British nationality law, History of British nationality law - Early British nationality law, History of British nationality law - British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1914, History of British nationality law - British Nationality Act 1948, History of British nationality law - Acquisition of Citizenship of the UK & Colonies, History of British nationality law - Requirements for Naturalisation or Registration, History of British nationality law - Citizenship by Descent, History of British nationality law - Citizenship by Declaration, History of British nationality law - Citizenship by Marriage, History of British nationality law - Citizenship by Adoption, History of British nationality law - Independence Acts, History of British nationality law - British Nationality Acts of 1958 1964 and 1965, History of British nationality law - Commonwealth Immigrants Acts, History of British nationality law - Immigration Act 1971, History of British nationality law - British Nationality Act 1981, History of British nationality law - British Subject and British Protected Person, History of British nationality law - British National Overseas, History of British nationality law - British Citizenship Legislation for Hong Kong, History of British nationality law - British Overseas Territories Act 2002, History of British nationality law - Nationality Immigration & Asylum Act 2002, History of British nationality law - British Nationals with no other citizenship, History of British nationality law - Overseas born children of British mothers, History of British nationality law - Citizenship Ceremonies, History of British nationality law - English Language Requirements, History of British nationality law - Life in the United Kingdom Test, History of British nationality law - Statistics on British Citizenship

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Main article: British nationality and Hong Kong The Hong Kong handover resulted in yet another nationality: British National (Overseas) or BN(O). There were some 3.5 million residents of Hong Kong who held British Dependent Territories citizen (BDTC) status by virtue of their connection with Hong Kong. Another 2 million other Hong Kong residents are believed to have been eligible to apply to become BDTCs. Upon handover, they would lose this status and became solely PRC citizens. Uncertainty about the future of Hong Kong ...

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The British Overseas Territories Act 2002 changes the British Dependent Territories to British Overseas Territories, and British Dependent Territories Citizenship to British Overseas Territories Citizenship. This change is supposed to reflect the no longer "dependent" status of these territories, but may create confusion due to the close similarity between the terms "British Overseas Citizen" and "British Overseas Territories Citizen". The Act also extends British citizenship to all British Overseas Territories Citizens ...

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History of British nationality law, History of British nationality law - Early British nationality law, History of British nationality law - British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1914, History of British nationality law - British Nationality Act 1948, History of British nationality law - Acquisition of Citizenship of the UK & Colonies, History of British nationality law - Requirements for Naturalisation or Registration, History of British nationality law - Citizenship by Descent, History of British nationality law - Citizenship by Declaration, History of British nationality law - Citizenship by Marriage, History of British nationality law - Citizenship by Adoption, History of British nationality law - Independence Acts, History of British nationality law - British Nationality Acts of 1958 1964 and 1965, History of British nationality law - Commonwealth Immigrants Acts, History of British nationality law - Immigration Act 1971, History of British nationality law - British Nationality Act 1981, History of British nationality law - British Subject and British Protected Person, History of British nationality law - British National Overseas, History of British nationality law - British Citizenship Legislation for Hong Kong, History of British nationality law - British Overseas Territories Act 2002, History of British nationality law - Nationality Immigration & Asylum Act 2002, History of British nationality law - British Nationals with no other citizenship, History of British nationality law - Overseas born children of British mothers, History of British nationality law - Citizenship Ceremonies, History of British nationality law - English Language Requirements, History of British nationality law - Life in the United Kingdom Test, History of British nationality law - Statistics on British Citizenship

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This Act created a number of changes to the law including: History of British nationality law - British Nationals with no other citizenship. The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 has also granted British Overseas Citizens, British Subjects and British Protected Persons the right to register as British citizens if they have no other citizenship or nationality and have not after 4 July 2002 renounced, voluntarily relinquished or lost through action or inaction any citizenship or nationality. Previ ...

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British nationality law has its origins in mediæval times. There has always been a distinction in English law between the subjects of the monarch and aliens: the monarch's subjects owed him allegiance, and included those born in his dominions (natural-born subjects) and those who later gave him their allegiance (naturalised subjects or denizens). A summary of early English common law is provided by Sir William Blackstone, who wrote about the law 1765-69.1. Natural-born subjects were born within the dominion of the crown. When the Bri ...

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In multiple observations, some dating back to antiquity, language acquisition in human children, fails to emerge unless the children are exposed to language. Thus 'language acquisition' is an example of an 'emergent behavior', which in fact requires a narrow, yet evolutionarily reliably occurring, set of inputs. In this case, the individual is made up of a set of mechanisms 'expecting' such input form the social world. In education, for instance, which has the explicit task in society of developing child cognition, choices are made re ...

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Cognition, Cognition - Cognition in mainstream psychology, Cognition - Influence and influences, Cognition - Cognitive ontology, Cognition - Cognition as compression, Cognition - Cognition as a social process, Cognition - Cognition in a cultural context, Cognition - Example of emergent organization, Cognition - Summary, Cognition - Related fields

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This legislation came into force on 1 January 1915. British subject status was acquired as follows: birth within His Majesty's dominions naturalisation in the United Kingdom or a part of His Majesty's dominions which had adopted Imperial naturalisation criteria descent through the legitimate male line (child born outside the His Majesty's dominions to a British subject father). This was limited to one generation although further legislation in 1922 allowed subsequent generations born overseas to be registered a ...

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History of British nationality law, History of British nationality law - Early British nationality law, History of British nationality law - British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1914, History of British nationality law - British Nationality Act 1948, History of British nationality law - Acquisition of Citizenship of the UK & Colonies, History of British nationality law - Requirements for Naturalisation or Registration, History of British nationality law - Citizenship by Descent, History of British nationality law - Citizenship by Declaration, History of British nationality law - Citizenship by Marriage, History of British nationality law - Citizenship by Adoption, History of British nationality law - Independence Acts, History of British nationality law - British Nationality Acts of 1958 1964 and 1965, History of British nationality law - Commonwealth Immigrants Acts, History of British nationality law - Immigration Act 1971, History of British nationality law - British Nationality Act 1981, History of British nationality law - British Subject and British Protected Person, History of British nationality law - British National Overseas, History of British nationality law - British Citizenship Legislation for Hong Kong, History of British nationality law - British Overseas Territories Act 2002, History of British nationality law - Nationality Immigration & Asylum Act 2002, History of British nationality law - British Nationals with no other citizenship, History of British nationality law - Overseas born children of British mothers, History of British nationality law - Citizenship Ceremonies, History of British nationality law - English Language Requirements, History of British nationality law - Life in the United Kingdom Test, History of British nationality law - Statistics on British Citizenship

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The Commonwealth Heads of Government decided in 1948 to embark on a major change in the law of nationality throughout the Commonwealth, following Canada's decision to enact its own citizenship law in 1946. Until then all Commonwealth countries had a single nationality status: British subject status. It was decided at that conference that the United Kingdom and the self-governing dominions would each adopt separa ...

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History of British nationality law, History of British nationality law - Early British nationality law, History of British nationality law - British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1914, History of British nationality law - British Nationality Act 1948, History of British nationality law - Acquisition of Citizenship of the UK & Colonies, History of British nationality law - Requirements for Naturalisation or Registration, History of British nationality law - Citizenship by Descent, History of British nationality law - Citizenship by Declaration, History of British nationality law - Citizenship by Marriage, History of British nationality law - Citizenship by Adoption, History of British nationality law - Independence Acts, History of British nationality law - British Nationality Acts of 1958 1964 and 1965, History of British nationality law - Commonwealth Immigrants Acts, History of British nationality law - Immigration Act 1971, History of British nationality law - British Nationality Act 1981, History of British nationality law - British Subject and British Protected Person, History of British nationality law - British National Overseas, History of British nationality law - British Citizenship Legislation for Hong Kong, History of British nationality law - British Overseas Territories Act 2002, History of British nationality law - Nationality Immigration & Asylum Act 2002, History of British nationality law - British Nationals with no other citizenship, History of British nationality law - Overseas born children of British mothers, History of British nationality law - Citizenship Ceremonies, History of British nationality law - English Language Requirements, History of British nationality law - Life in the United Kingdom Test, History of British nationality law - Statistics on British Citizenship

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Under the 1948 Act, CUKC status was acquired by: birth in the UK or a colony (exceptions for chidren of 'enemy aliens' and diplomats). The immigration status of the parents was irrelevant. naturalisation or registration in the UK or a colony or protectorate legitimate descent from a CUKC father for children born elsewhere. Only the first generation only acquired British nationality automatically. Second and subsequent generations could only do so if born outside the Commonwealth (or Ireland) and registered with ...

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History of British nationality law, History of British nationality law - Early British nationality law, History of British nationality law - British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1914, History of British nationality law - British Nationality Act 1948, History of British nationality law - Acquisition of Citizenship of the UK & Colonies, History of British nationality law - Requirements for Naturalisation or Registration, History of British nationality law - Citizenship by Descent, History of British nationality law - Citizenship by Declaration, History of British nationality law - Citizenship by Marriage, History of British nationality law - Citizenship by Adoption, History of British nationality law - Independence Acts, History of British nationality law - British Nationality Acts of 1958 1964 and 1965, History of British nationality law - Commonwealth Immigrants Acts, History of British nationality law - Immigration Act 1971, History of British nationality law - British Nationality Act 1981, History of British nationality law - British Subject and British Protected Person, History of British nationality law - British National Overseas, History of British nationality law - British Citizenship Legislation for Hong Kong, History of British nationality law - British Overseas Territories Act 2002, History of British nationality law - Nationality Immigration & Asylum Act 2002, History of British nationality law - British Nationals with no other citizenship, History of British nationality law - Overseas born children of British mothers, History of British nationality law - Citizenship Ceremonies, History of British nationality law - English Language Requirements, History of British nationality law - Life in the United Kingdom Test, History of British nationality law - Statistics on British Citizenship

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Many colonies became independent between 1949 and 1982. Under the independence legislation passed in the United Kingdom, a person connected with a particular colony generally lost CUKC on Independence Day if: they acquired citizenship of that country on independence; and they did not have specified connections to the UK itself or a place which remained a colony Persons could in some cases lose CUKC even if they had migrated to the UK. In this c ...

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History of British nationality law, History of British nationality law - Early British nationality law, History of British nationality law - British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1914, History of British nationality law - British Nationality Act 1948, History of British nationality law - Acquisition of Citizenship of the UK & Colonies, History of British nationality law - Requirements for Naturalisation or Registration, History of British nationality law - Citizenship by Descent, History of British nationality law - Citizenship by Declaration, History of British nationality law - Citizenship by Marriage, History of British nationality law - Citizenship by Adoption, History of British nationality law - Independence Acts, History of British nationality law - British Nationality Acts of 1958 1964 and 1965, History of British nationality law - Commonwealth Immigrants Acts, History of British nationality law - Immigration Act 1971, History of British nationality law - British Nationality Act 1981, History of British nationality law - British Subject and British Protected Person, History of British nationality law - British National Overseas, History of British nationality law - British Citizenship Legislation for Hong Kong, History of British nationality law - British Overseas Territories Act 2002, History of British nationality law - Nationality Immigration & Asylum Act 2002, History of British nationality law - British Nationals with no other citizenship, History of British nationality law - Overseas born children of British mothers, History of British nationality law - Citizenship Ceremonies, History of British nationality law - English Language Requirements, History of British nationality law - Life in the United Kingdom Test, History of British nationality law - Statistics on British Citizenship

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Language education - Language Study Holidays. An Increasing number of language students are now combining holidays with language study in the native country. German Based business Lisa Reisen has now branched out worldwide offering language study trips to all ages, levels and nationalities. The UK branch Lisa Travel [1] are on a mission to help the failing grades of Language students in UK schools by offering students the chance to learn in the native country. This will enable the student to experience the culture and tuition of the local people by taking them out their no ...

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Language education, Language education - Language education in Europe, Language education - Language Study Holidays, Language education - Foreign language education, Language education - Bilingual education, Language education - Language education in the United States, Language education - Methods of teaching foreign languages, Language education - Acronyms and abbreviations

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Bantu - History. When Jan van Riebeeck went around the coast of South Africa in 1652, very few Bantu were found there, and the predominant indigenous population around the Cape of Good Hope was made up of Khoisan people. European settlers following Van Riebeeck, mostly from Holland, French Huguenots and German settlers, known in the past as Boers (but the most commonly accepted term today is Afrikaners), moved in over a period of 100 years, from the middle of the 1700s. Only around 1770 did the Boers discover the ...

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Bantu, Bantu - History, Bantu - Bantu in South Africa, Bantu - History, Bantu - Social organization, Bantu - Ethnic partitioning, Bantu - Culture, Bantu - Food acquisition, Bantu - House types, Bantu - Faith, Bantu - Literature

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Sign language and computer keyboards are used in primate language research because non-human primates lack vocal cords and other human speech organs. However, primates do possess the manual dexterity required for keyboard operation. Many researchers into animal language have presented the results of the studies described below as evidence of linguistic abilities in animals. However, it is important to note that many of their conclusions have been dis ...

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Great Ape language, Great Ape language - Questions in animal language research, Great Ape language - Non-human animals that demonstrate understanding, Great Ape language - Primate use of sign language, Great Ape language - Kanzi, Great Ape language - Washoe, Great Ape language - Plastic tokens, Great Ape language - Lexigrams, Great Ape language - Criticisms of primate language research, Great Ape language - Notes

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Sarah (chimpanzee) and two other chimpanzees Elizabeth (chimpanzee) and Peony (chimpanzee) in the research programs of David Premack demonstrated the ability to produce streams of token selections. The selections came from a vocabulary of several dozen plastic tokens; it took each of the chimpanzees hundreds of trials to reliably associate a token with a referent, such as an apple or banana. The tokens were chosen to be completely different in appearance from the referents. After learning these protocols, Sarah was then able to associate oth ...

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Great Ape language, Great Ape language - Questions in animal language research, Great Ape language - Non-human animals that demonstrate understanding, Great Ape language - Primate use of sign language, Great Ape language - Kanzi, Great Ape language - Washoe, Great Ape language - Plastic tokens, Great Ape language - Lexigrams, Great Ape language - Criticisms of primate language research, Great Ape language - Notes

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Many prominent scientists, including MIT linguist Noam Chomsky and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, are skeptical about claims made for Great Ape language research. Among the reasons for skepticism are the differences in ease with which human beings and apes can learn language, the lack of a clear beginning and end to signed gestures, and the lack of proof regarding whether the apes actually understand language or are simply doing a clever trick. While vocabulary words from American Sign Language are used to train the apes, native u ...

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Great Ape language, Great Ape language - Questions in animal language research, Great Ape language - Non-human animals that demonstrate understanding, Great Ape language - Primate use of sign language, Great Ape language - Kanzi, Great Ape language - Washoe, Great Ape language - Plastic tokens, Great Ape language - Lexigrams, Great Ape language - Criticisms of primate language research, Great Ape language - Notes

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A number of Indigenous Australian sign languages exist, unrelated to Auslan, such as Walpiri Sign Language. They occur in the southern, central, and western desert regions, coastal Arnhem Land, some islands of north coast, the western side of Cape York Peninsula, and on some Torres Strait Islands. They have also been noted as far south as the Murray river. Deaf Indigenous people of Far North Queensland (extending from Yarrabah to Cape York) form a distinct signing community using a dialect of Auslan^{See also:}

Auslan, Auslan - Recognition and status, Auslan - History, Auslan - Auslan in relation to English, Auslan - Fingerspelling, Auslan - Signed English, Auslan - Acquisition and nativeness, Auslan - Variation and standardisation, Auslan - Dialects, Auslan - Indigenous Australian sign languages and Auslan, Auslan - Written and recorded Auslan

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EFL indicates the use of English in a non-English-speaking region. Study can occur either in the student's home country or, for the more privileged minority, in an anglophone country which they visit as a sort of educational tourist, e.g. after graduating from university. TEFL is the teaching of English as a foreign language. ESL refers to the use of English within an English-speaking region, generally by refugees, immigrants and students. The term has been criticised on the grounds that many learners already spea ...

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English as an additional language, English as an additional language - Types of EAL, English as an additional language - Difficulties for learners, English as an additional language - Pronunciation, English as an additional language - Grammar, English as an additional language - Vocabulary, English as an additional language - Differences between spoken and written English, English as an additional language - Varieties of English, English as an additional language - EAL exams and the Common European Framework, English as an additional language - EAL professional associations, English as an additional language - Acronyms and abbreviations, English as an additional language - Language teaching and learning, English as an additional language - EAL exams, English as an additional language - Other, English as an additional language - Contemporary English

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Most of the difficulties which learners face in learning English are a consequence of the degree to which their native language differs from English. A native speaker of Chinese, for example, faces many more difficulties than a native speaker of German. Learners with a specific first language usually produce many similar mistakes resulting from the influence of their mother tongue. This is known as L1 interference. Although in many ways English is not particularly difficult to learn, there are a few features of English which are relatively complex and ...

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Between 1998 and 2000, the Council of Europe's language policy division developed its Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The aim of this framework was to have a common system for foreign language testing and certification, to cover all European languages and countries. The Common European Framework divides language learners into three levels: A. Basic User B. Independent User C. Proficient User Each of these levels is divided into two sections, resulting in a total of six levels ...

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In 1988, Informix purchased Innovative Software, makers of a Unix-based office system called SmartWare and WingZ, an innovative spreadsheet program for the Apple Macintosh. WingZ provided a highly graphical user interface, supported very large spreadsheets, and offered programming in a HyperCard-like language known as HyperScript. The original release proved very successful, becoming the #2 spreadsheet, behind Microsoft Excel, although many WingZ users found it to be a superior product. In 1990, WingZ ports starte ...

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Informix, Informix - 1980: Early history, Informix - 1988: Innovative Software acquisition, Informix - 1994: Dynamic Scalable Architecture, Informix - 1995: Illustra acquisition, Informix - 1997: Misgovernance, Informix - 2001: Other acquisitions, Informix - 2002: Repercussions from misgovernance, Informix - Product summary

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ISN represents the formation of a new language without an adult community of fluent native "speakers", which is otherwise quite unusual. Normal creoles develop from the pidgin mixture of two (or more) distinct communities of fluent speakers, but this language developed from a group of young people with only non-conventional home sign systems and gesture. Some linguists see what happened in Managua as proof that language acquisition is hard-wired inside the human brain. "The Nicaraguan case is absolutely unique in history," Steven Pink ...

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Nicaraguan Sign Language, Nicaraguan Sign Language - History, Nicaraguan Sign Language - ISN and linguistics, Nicaraguan Sign Language - Controversy, Nicaraguan Sign Language - When is it language?, Nicaraguan Sign Language - Linguistic Imperialism, Nicaraguan Sign Language - Evidence for Innate Language Capacities, Nicaraguan Sign Language - Nicaraguan Sign Language as unwriteable

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Current thinking in biology discredits the notion that genes alone can determine a trait because genes are never sufficient in isolation. At the molecular level, DNA interacts in complex ways with signals from other genes and from the environment. At the level of individuals, particular genes influence the development of a trait in the context of a particular environment. Thus, measurements of the degree to which a trait is influenced by genes versus environment will depend on the particular environment and genes examined. In many cases, it ...

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Nature versus nurture, Nature versus nurture - Definitions of nature and nurture, Nature versus nurture - Uncomplicated cases, Nature versus nurture - How to compare the effects of nature and nurture and why this is difficult, Nature versus nurture - Moral difficulties: eugenics etc.., Nature versus nurture - Philosophical difficulties: are the traits real?, Nature versus nurture - Philosophical difficulties: Biological determinism, Nature versus nurture - Myths and mysteries, Nature versus nurture - Misc

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