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Oral English Proficiency Tests, Interpretive Labor, and the Neoliberal University
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 543-560, December 2022., 2022 Tests of English proficiency for international graduate students at US universities are neoliberal institutions which make (mis)communication the responsibility of individual workers. While cloaking themselves in a discourse of linguistic expertise, they require test‐takers to assimilate to white, upper class, American mannerisms.
Julia Nagai, Edwin K. Everhart
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Analysis of Phonological Processes of Consonants in Farimani Dialect based on Autosegmental Phonology [PDF]
نثرپژوهی ادب فارسی, 2016 In Autosegmental phonology introduced by Goldsmith as an independent field of generative phonology, phonological representations are made up of different layers. In this approach, each feature or group of features that make a phonological contribution in
Azam Meykadeh
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Investigating Structure and Agency in Chinese Indonesians' Identity Work
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 561-584, December 2022., 2022 Research shows that structure and agency are components of both micro and macro articulations of identity (Bucholtz and Hall, 2005). However, some scholars (e.g., Block 2013, 2015; Sealey and Carter 2004; Gao 2017) argue that structure and agency often receive unequal attention, with many studies focusing more on agency when examining identity work ...
Jessica Birnie‐Smith
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On segmental representations in second language phonology: A perceptual account
Second Language Research, 2021 The extent to which exposure to new phonemic contrasts (i.e. contrasts that are present in the L2 but not in the L1) will lead to the creation of a new phonemic category in L2 speakers, as well as the phonological nature of these categories, remains an ...
Fernanda Barrientos
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The dynamical landscape: phonological acquisition and the phonology–phonetics link
Phonology, 2021 During acquisition children internalise adult-based phonological patterns and alternately adopt and discard child-specific patterns reflecting their unskilled production. The child-specific patterns are often assumed to be low-level phonetic effects, and
Beata Łukaszewicz
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Phonological Variations Are Compensated at the Lexical Level: Evidence From Auditory Neural Activity
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 Dealing with phonological variations is important for speech processing. This article addresses whether phonological variations introduced by assimilatory processes are compensated for at the pre-lexical or lexical level, and whether the nature of ...
Hatice Zora +4 more
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2004 This article describes the basic aspects of the phonology of Jumjum, a littleknown Western Nilotic language. The treatment includes syllable structure and word shapes, vowels and vowel harmony, consonants and consonant assimilation, and tones and tonal ...
Torben Andersen
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Phonological processes in the noun class system of lama.
Studies in African Linguistics, 1989 The purpose of this paper is to account for the phonological processes taking place within noun classes and across noun classes in Lama, particularly when some class suffixes are attached to noun stems.
Meterwa A. Ourso
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Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2021 This article describes the phonology of T’ambaaro, a Highland East Cushitic language of the Afro-asiatic phylum spoken in southwest Ethiopia. The language has twenty-four consonant phonemes, and five oral vowels and one nasal vowel whose phonemic status ...
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo
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An Analytical Study of Assimilation in English Reading Texts
آداب الكوفة, 2023 This study is concerned with analysing of assimilation as an English co-articulated phenomenon in a selected reading course assigned for Iraqi students in order to enhance the Iraqi ESL learners understanding of variety of English reading skills as well ...
Mohammed Alasadi
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