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Styling Authenticity in Country Music
LanguagesCountry 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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The English pronunciation teaching in Europe survey: selected results [PDF]
, 2012 The results of EPTiES reveal interesting phenomena across Europe, despite shortcomings in terms of construction and distribution. For example, most respondents are non-native speakers of English and the majority of them rate their own mastery of English ...
Cunnigham, Una +10 more
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Utopian semiospheres: Isolation and dialogue across borders
Sign Systems StudiesThe 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 +2 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ongoing evidence indicates increased risk of sarcopenic obesity among children and young people (CYP) with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), often beginning early in treatment, persisting into survivorship. This review evaluates current literature on body composition in CYP with ALL during and after treatment.
Lina A. Zahed +5 more
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Sociolinguistic monitoring and L2 speakers of English
LinguisticsThis 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 +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 +2 more
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, 2020 African American Vernacular English (AAVE), one of the most studied dialects in American English, has undergone several changes in its label across the years.
Sharese King
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background B‐acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B‐ALL) is the most common pediatric cancer, and while most children in high‐resource settings are cured, therapy carries risks for long‐term toxicities. Understanding parents’ concerns about these late effects is essential to guide anticipatory support and inform evolving therapeutic approaches ...
Kellee N. Parker +7 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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