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Accent Change in the Wake of the Industrial Revolution: Tracing Derhoticisation Across Historic North Lancashire

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article applies a social model of historical dialect evolution in 19th‐century Britain to the analysis of sociophonetic data. Our aim is to assess where new dialect formation is likely to occur, and where it is not. Using recordings from 27 speakers, we first analyse coda rhoticity in north Lancashire, UK. The speakers were born 1890–1917
Claire Nance, Malika Mahamdi
wiley   +1 more source

Nursing's Relationship to Feminism: What Is Nursing's Response to the Global Backlash Against Women's Rights and Access to Abortion?

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
Helen T. Allan
wiley   +1 more source

Anatomical confirmation of computed tomography-based diagnosis of the atherosclerosis discovered in 17th century Korean mummy. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2015
Kim MJ, Kim YS, Oh CS, Go JH, Lee IS, Park WK, Cho SM, Kim SK, Shin DH.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Why Do Prosocial People Dislike Markets in Some Countries and Like Them in Others?

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on the doux commerce thesis, which suggests that people in market‐oriented societies hold stronger prosocial values than those in less market‐oriented ones, one can expect prosocial and pro‐market values to be positively associated. The fact that the association holds for cross‐country observations but does not universally hold for cross‐
Pál Czeglédi
wiley   +1 more source

Genome-wide ancestry of 17th-century enslaved Africans from the Caribbean. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2015
Schroeder H, Ávila-Arcos MC, Malaspinas AS, Poznik GD, Sandoval-Velasco M, Carpenter ML, Moreno-Mayar JV, Sikora M, Johnson PL, Allentoft ME, Samaniego JA, Haviser JB, Dee MW, Stafford TW, Salas A, Orlando L, Willerslev E, Bustamante CD, Gilbert MT.   +18 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Multiculturalism, Majority Rights and the Established Culture

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent critiques of multiculturalism contend that it is the ethnic or cultural majority in Western democracies that is now most vulnerable to cultural and identity dissolution, thus entitling it to majority rights on much the same grounds that multiculturalists defend minority rights. These critiques follow and perpetuate the binary opposition
Geoffrey Brahm Levey
wiley   +1 more source

Food flora in 17th century Northeast region of Brazil in Historia Naturalis Brasiliae. [PDF]

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2014
Medeiros MF, Albuquerque UP.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Seven Works of Mercy; a 16th century Dutch picture gallery of skin disease

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, EarlyView.
Thomas M. van Gulik, Stella A. Bult, Marianne Crijns   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Text as tape: On the voice in the late prose of Friederike Mayröcker

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract For a text to have a voice means to be caught in a paradox: the text obviously does not speak, so what is that tone rising from the pages? Taking hold of a striking ambivalence, this essay examines the relationship between text and voice in the late prose of Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker.
Astrid Elander
wiley   +1 more source

What Can the State of Nature Justify?

Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social contract theory is one of the most popular approaches to political justification. While the state of nature account in social contract theory is generally invoked to justify the state's authority, I argue in this paper that no extant account succeeds in doing so.
Arthur (Hongyang) Yang
wiley   +1 more source