Valdman further notes differences between the Lapine Foreigner Talk used to facilitate discussion as with Kehaar the gull, and that used to signal the depreciated status of the unnamed mouse ( a less powerful animal in the rabbit world ).
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Stanley Renshon, a political psychologist at the City University of New York, said " homeland " was an odd choice because Americans generally don't describe the United States in that way _ the way many foreigners talk about their native countries.
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Breaking down the syntax of Lapine Foreigner Talk to compare with that of standard Lapine, Corder finds that they are roughly the same with the only notable difference being an inversion of the proportion of paratactic to marked coordination in compound sentences.
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Specifically, Corder reports Lapine Foreigner Talk to consist of 73 % simple sentences, 15 % compound sentences ( 70 % paratactic and 30 % marked coordination ), and 12 % complex sentences ( with 60 % complemented by the four verbs " think ", " know ", " say ", and " tell " ).
