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the dinner table

Attention to language : lessons learned at the dinner table.

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One ad that appeared sporadically for decades was an image of the father at the dinner table with his wife and children gathered to eat.

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Archbishops still kept a public dinner table as noblemen once did.

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Food for thought : dinner table as a context for observing parent-child discourse.

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It triggered a fierce but open and constructive debate at the dinner table and also later during the conference.

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More extended discussion around a topic by families at the dinner table was associated with stronger vocabularies in their young children.

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Thunder is when the angels are upstairs bowling : narratives and explanations at the dinner table.

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Personal and political agendas were often bound up together, and a captive audience over a dinner table was too good an opportunity to pass up.

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When the family has finished eating, they remain at the dinner table and chat and then begin to clean up (post-eating phase).

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Later she is seen in a black formal dress and dines alone, drinking red wine at the dinner table in the same apartment.

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To identify the regulatory comments made at the dinner table, we used the complete transcripts and context notes.

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There is discussion at the family dinner table of its status as a loan, not gift, for it bears interest.

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The dinner table, presumably, would include alcohol and the wine list would traditionally contain port.

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The recordings are 10-minute weekly snippets of relaxed, natural family communications around the dinner table, usually at the evening meal.

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Searching for two objects in two rooms: a rice package placed on a dinner table is precisely localized by camera compared to laser.

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