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Online perception of glottalized coda stops in American English

, 2018
In American English, voiceless codas /t/ and /p/ are often glottalized: They have glottal constriction that results in creaky voice on the preceding vowel.
Adam J. Chong, M. Garellek
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Exploring the Effect of Social Accommodation and Informal Input in Second Language Acquisition

Language, Technology, and Social Media
Accommodation and input both are essential parts of acquiring a second or first language. This study examined the effect of social accommodation and informal input in acquiring a second language in two different contexts namely Bangladeshi and Thai ...
Borendra Lal Tripura, Risala Ahmed, Prodhan Mahbub Ibna Seraj   +2 more
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Jabra Ibrahim Jabraʼs In Search of Walid Masoud. A Polyphony of (Un)Orchestrated Opus [PDF]

Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, 2019
This paper makes use of Mikhail Bakhtinʼs notion of polyphony to approach In Search of Walid Masoud, a novel written in Arabic by the Palestinian writer Jabra Ibrahim Jabra in 1978 and translated into English by Roger Allen and Adnan Haydar in 2000.
Ibrahim A. El-Hussari
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Evaluation of the American-English Quality of Life in Short Stature Youth (QoLISSY) questionnaire in the United States

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2015
BackgroundThe European Quality of Life in Short Stature Youth (QoLISSY) is a novel condition-specific instrument developed to assess health related quality of life (HrQoL) in children/adolescents with short stature from patient and parent perspectives ...
M. Bullinger, R. Sommer, A. Pleil, N. Mauras, J. Ross, R. Newfield, L. Silverman, A. Rohenkohl, J. Fox, J. Quitmann   +9 more
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2023 ACC/AHA/ACCP/HRS Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Atrial Fibrillation: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines.

Circulation, 2023
AIM The "2023 ACC/AHA/ACCP/HRS Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Atrial Fibrillation" provides recommendations to guide clinicians in the treatment of patients with atrial fibrillation.
J. Joglar, Mina K. Chung, Anastasia L Armbruster, Emelia J. Benjamin, Janice Y Chyou, Edmond M. Cronin, Anita Deswal, L. Eckhardt, Z. Goldberger, Rakesh Gopinathannair, B. Gorenek, Paul L Hess, M. Hlatky, Gail Hogan, Chinwe Ibeh, J. Indik, Kazuhiko Kido, Fred Kusumoto, Mark S Link, Kathleen T Linta, Gregory M. Marcus, Patrick M McCarthy, Nimesh Patel, Kristen K. Patton, Marco V Perez, J. Piccini, Andrea M. Russo, Prashanthan Sanders, Megan M. Streur, Kevin L Thomas, Sabrina Times, J. Tisdale, Anne Marie Valente, D. V. Van Wagoner   +33 more
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Coalescent Assimilation Across Wordboundaries in American English and in Polish English [PDF]

, 2016
Coalescent assimilation (CA), where alveolar obstruents /t, d, s, z/ in word-final position merge with word-initial /j/ to produce postalveolar /tʃ, dʒ, ʃ, ʒ/, is one of the most wellknown connected speech processes in English.
Andreas Baumann, Avery, Avery, Batliner, Batliner, Booth, Booth, Bowen, Bowen, Bronstein, Bronstein, Carr, Carr, Christensen, Christensen, Cohen, Cohen, Collins, Collins, Cox, Cox, Cruttenden, Cruttenden, Davidson, Davidson, Ewelina Wojtkowiak, Hyndman, Hyndman, Jenkins, Jenkins, Kamil Kaźmierski, Ladefoged, Ladefoged, Pitt, Pitt, Podesva, Podesva, Pęzik, Pęzik, Redi, Redi, Roach, Roach, Shockey, Shockey, Sloetjes, Sloetjes, Sobkowiak, Sobkowiak, Venables, Venables, Vienna, Vienna, Zsiga, Zsiga   +54 more
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UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF TRANSFER OF ACADEMIC WRITING SKILLS ACROSS TIME [PDF]

Journal of Languages for Specific Purposes, 2017
This study investigates university students' perceptions towards an English for advanced academic writing purposes (AAW) course taught in a private university in the United Arab Emirates. It probes into the relevance of the skills taught to the students'
Tharwat EL-Sakran, Khawlah Ahmed, Aya EL-Sakran   +2 more
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Aptitude and experience as predictors of grammatical proficiency in adult Greek-English bilinguals

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
It has been shown that individuals exhibit great variability in second language (L2) ultimate attainment. Some speakers reach native-like proficiency, others only achieve a rudimentary command and many lie in the middle.
Leonarda Prela, Miquel Llompart, Miquel Llompart, Ewa Dąbrowska, Ewa Dąbrowska   +4 more
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The color lexicon of American English.

Journal of Vision, 2014
This article describes color naming by 51 American English-speaking informants. A free-naming task produced 122 monolexemic color terms, with which informants named the 330 Munsell samples from the World Color Survey.
D. Lindsey, Angela M. Brown
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A Corpus-Based, Pilot Study of Lexical Stress Variation in American English [PDF]

, 2010
Phonological free variation describes the phenomenon of there being more than one pronunciation for a word without any change in meaning (e.g. because, schedule, vehicle).
A. Cruttenden, A. McEnery, A. McEnery, Alice Henderson, D. Temperley, J. Mompéan, J. Wells, J. Wells, M Celce-Murcia, P. Trudgill, Y. Shitara   +10 more
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