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"Are you accepting new patients?" A pilot field experiment on telephone-based gatekeeping and Black patients' access to pediatric care. [PDF]

, 2018
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To determine whether name and accent cues that the caller is Black shape physician offices' responses to telephone-based requests for well-child visits. METHOD AND DATA: In this pilot study, we employed a quasi-experimental audit
Irby‐Shasanmi, Amy, Leech, Tamara G.J., Mitchell, Anne L.   +2 more
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Changing Tactics? Optimizing ECT in difficult-to-treat depression (ChaT): study protocol

European Psychiatry
Introduction Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an evidence-based treatment for difficult-to-treat depression, in which an electrical stimulus is applied via right unilateral (RUL) (Fig 1) or bitemporal (BT) electrodes (Fig 2).
L. Van den Eynde, K. Vansteelandt, K. Hebbrecht, J. Obbels, S. Verspecht, L. Gistelinck, P.-J. Geerts, D. Schrijvers, P. Sienaert   +8 more
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Using the Phonological Approach to Describe the Vocal System of the Russian Language in the Context of Russian-Spanish Language Contact

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2021
The article is devoted to the description of the vocal systems of different languages, considering the functional approach, based on the objective linguistic reality.
Veronika V. Bondareva
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Assimilation of Voicing in Czech Speakers of English: The Effect of the Degree of Accentedness [PDF]

, 2014
Czech and English are languages which differ with respect to the implementation of voicing. Unlike in English, there is a considerable agreement between phonological (systemic) and phonetic (actual) voicing in Czech, and, more importantly, the two ...
Boersma, Boersma, Butcher, Butcher, Corpus, Corpus, Cruttenden, Cruttenden, Flege, Flege, Flege, Flege, Gluszek, Gluszek, Hirose, Hirose, Jusczyk, Jusczyk, Kohler, Kohler, Kuhl, Kuhl, Ladefoged, Ladefoged, Löfqvist, Löfqvist, Macha, Macha, Ogden, Ogden, Pavel Šturm, Radek Skarnitzl, Ridouane, Ridouane, Roach, Roach, Shih, Shih, Skarnitzl, Skarnitzl, Skarnitzl, Skarnitzl, Skarnitzl, Skarnitzl, Skarnitzl, Skarnitzl, Smith, Smith   +47 more
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Disentangling accent from comprehensibility [PDF]

, 2012
The goal of this study was to determine which linguistic aspects of second language speech are related to accent and which to comprehensibility. To address this goal, 19 different speech measures in the oral productions of 40 native French speakers of ...
Isaacs, Talia, Trofimovich, P
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On the Question of the Cheboksary Shibboleth

Этническая культура, 2022
The work is devoted to the study of the shibboleth in the speech culture of the inhabitants of the capital of Chuvashia. A shibboleth is a word that has absorbed the specific features of a language and is used to identify people for whom this language is
Eduard V. Fomin
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Comprehension of familiar and unfamiliar native accents under adverse listening conditions

, 2009
This study aimed to determine the relative processing cost associated with comprehension of an unfamiliar native accent under adverse listening conditions. Two sentence verification experiments were conducted in which listeners heard sentences at various
Adank, P., Evans, B., Scotti, S., Stuart-Smith, J.   +3 more
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Age and Accent - Changes in a Southern Welsh English Accent [PDF]

, 2010
This paper describes the accent of Neath (South Wales) from a socio-dialectological perspective and deals with changes in the accent which are due to the non-linguistic factor age. In a direct interview with indirect questioning, 27 informants from Neath
Podhovnik, Edith
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Characterization of exoribonuclease XRN1 as a cancer target and identification of adenosine-3’,5’-bisphosphate as a potent enzyme inhibitor

Communications Biology
XRN1 (5’-3’ exoribonuclease 1) degrades RNA from the 5′ → 3′ direction and utilizes both single- and double-stranded RNA as substrates. XRN1 plays a critical role in mRNA turnover as well as regulating the cellular response to viral infection.
Gordon J. Lockbaum, Maureen M. Lynes, Sophie A. Shen, Julie Liu, Nicholas Holt, Sunaina P. Nayak, Kevin E. Knockenhauer, Shihua Yao, E. Allen Sickmier, Anugraha Raman, Jie Wu, April Case, Livia Shehaj, Shane M. Buker, Simina Grigoriu, Scott Ribich, Stephen J. Blakemore, Brian A. Sparling, Kenneth W. Duncan, Robert A. Copeland, Serena J. Silver, P. Ann Boriack-Sjodin   +21 more
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German sentence accent revisited [PDF]

, 2004
Results of a production experiment on the placement of sentence accent in German are reported. The hypothesis that German fulfills some of the most widely accepted rules of accent assignment— predicting focus domain integration—was only partly confirmed.
Féry, Caroline, Herbst, Laura
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