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Styling Authenticity in Country Music

Languages
Country music has become commercially successful both in the US and worldwide. It is perceived as a genre that values authenticity, which may be reflected in the choice of linguistic features, with (White) Southern American English (SAE) serving as the ...
Valentin Werner, Anna Ledermann
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Utopian semiospheres: Isolation and dialogue across borders

Sign Systems Studies
The paper applies Juri Lotman’s theory of the semiosphere to utopian studies with the aim of identifying the principal components and mode of functioning of classic utopian discourse.
Artur Blaim, Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim
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Is there an interlanguage speech credibility benefit?

Topics in Linguistics, 2016
Some (though not all) previous studies have documented the interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit (ISIB), i.e. the greater intelligibility of non-native (relative to native) speech to non-native listeners as compared to native listeners.
Podlipský Václav Jonáš, Šimáčková Šárka, Petráž David   +2 more
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Sociolinguistic monitoring and L2 speakers of English

Linguistics
This study contributes to a growing body of research on the social meanings of linguistic variation with particular interest in the cognitive processes governing their emergence.
Pflaeging Jana, Mackay Bradley, Schleef Erik   +2 more
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A Plural Indefinite Article in Heritage Greek: The Role of Register

Languages, 2022
This paper investigates the use of kati “some” by Greek Heritage Speakers (HSs) in comparison to monolinguals. While all Greek determiners are marked for gender, case, and number, and agree with their nominal complement, kati is an exception, as it lacks
Artemis Alexiadou, Vasiliki Rizou, Foteini Karkaletsou   +2 more
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Foreign Language Development During Temporary School Closures in the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic

Frontiers in Education, 2020
This report assesses effects of temporary school closures during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic in Germany on early foreign language development among primary-school learners of English.
Holger Hopp, Dieter Thoma
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Love as Water:

Crossings, 2022
Analyzing two films, Ponyo by Hayao Miyazaki and The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro, this paper studies the portrayal of humanity’s complex relationship with water that refuses to present itself as static, simple, and reducible. Attending to water
Shibaji Mridha
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Participation in Shadow Education in Church- and State-Maintained Schools: The Role of Cultural and Social Capital

Central European Journal of Educational Research
Research on shadow education is often justified based on Bourdieu’s theory of capital as it is assumed to contribute to social inequalities. This paper focuses on the role of cultural and social capital and on the differences between state- and church ...
Gabriella Hegedűs, Ildikó Csépes
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Identity Avoidance in Turkish Partial Reduplication: Feature Specificity and Locality

Laboratory Phonology, 2023
This study investigates the Turkish partial reduplication phenomenon, in which the reduplicant is derived by prefixing C1VC2 syllable, where C1V are identical to the word-initial CV of the base and the C2 ends in one of the four linking ...
Faruk Akkuş, Kevin Tang
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Patterns of Short-Term Phonetic Interference in Bilingual Speech

Languages, 2018
Previous research indicates that alternating between a bilingual’s languages during speech production can lead to short-term increases in cross-language phonetic interaction.
Šárka Šimáčková, Václav Jonáš Podlipský   +1 more
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