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Places as refrains: A non‐constructive alternative to assemblage thinking

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the past 20 to 30 years, relational, post‐humanist, processual, and non‐representational approaches to space and place have gained an increasing purchase within anglophone human geography, whether underpinned by academic engagements with Western philosophy, anthropology, or indigenous thinking and praxis.
Peter Merriman
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Conformity to the obligatory contour principle and the strict layer hypothesis: the avoidance of initial gemination in Maltese

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
This research investigates how the avoidance of initial gemination in Maltese is motivated by conformity to the Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP) and the Strict Layer Hypothesis (SLH) in light of Optimality Theory (OT) as a framework.
Mufleh Salem M. Alqahtani
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Perception of nonnative tonal contrasts by Mandarin-English and English-Mandarin sequential bilinguals [PDF]

, 2019
This study examined the role of acquisition order and crosslinguistic similarity in influencing transfer at the initial stage of perceptually acquiring a tonal third language (L3).
Abramson A. S., Abramson A. S., Agwuele A. H., Bamgbose A., Berkes É., Best C. T., Best C. T., Best C. T., Burnham D., Burnham D., Cabrelli Amaro J., Chan I. L., Chang C. B., Chao Y. R., Chao Y. R., Charles B. Chang, Flege J. E., Foote R., Hammarberg B., Hermas A., I Lei Chan, Izura C., Jin F., Kuhl P. K., Lamidi M. T., Leung I. Y., Leung Y. I., Na Ranong S., Remijsen B., Schütze C. T., Teeranon P., Thepboriruk K., Wang X., Wrembel M., Wrembel M., Yip M., Ọdẹlóbí Ọ. À.   +36 more
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Nigerian English: History, functions and features

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers a comprehensive overview of Nigerian English, a rapidly expanding variety of world Englishes, recognised as one of the fastest‐growing varieties of English globally in numerical terms. This article has four aims. First, it discusses the historical developments of English in Nigeria with reference to the events that led to ...
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi, Sopuruchi Christian Aboh   +1 more
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PERUBAHAN BUNYI PADA BACAAN-BACAAN GHARIB DALAM ALQURAN MENURUT TINJAUAN FONOLOGI ARAB

Okara: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra, 2017
As the language of the Qur’an, Arabic is not only owned by speakers of the Arab nation, but also belongs to all Muslims in the world. Then it should be better for all Muslims trying to learn and study the Qur’an since the early stage of their life.
Iswah Adriana
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Prosodic constituents in the representation of consonantal sequences in Polish [PDF]

, 2013
The aim of this paper is to show what role prosodic constituents, especially the foot and the prosodic word play in Polish phonology. The focus is placed on their function in the representation of extrasyllabic consonants in word-initial, word-medial ...
Rochoń, Marzena
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Single Deficit, Comorbidity or Varying Degrees of Dysfunction? New Directions to the Study of Learning Disorders

Applied Cognitive Psychology, Volume 39, Issue 4, July/August 2025.
ABSTRACT Research on neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) has led us to refine our theoretical and methodological approaches. We explore whether new deficit clusters in line with the Research Domain Criteria, a novel multifactorial framework, optimally explain known conditions such as ADHD, DLD, or SLD in reading.
Evgenia‐Peristera Kouki, Antriani Tsagkaraki, George C. Spanoudis, Timothy C. Papadopoulos   +3 more
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Eléments caractéristiques de la phonologie structurale du mboxo, bantu C21 (République du Congo) [PDF]

Revue Hybrides
This study analyzes, according to the structural model, the functioning of the fundamental elements (phonemes, tonems and syllable) of the phonology of Mboxó, a language of the Bantu family of the area, spoken by the Mboxó, a population who inhabit Mbomo,
Guy-Roger Cyriac GOMBE-APONDZA
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Voice assimilation of morphemic -s in the L2 English of L1 French, L1 Italian and L1 Spanish learners

Anglophonia, 2020
This study investigates the progressive voice assimilation rule in word-final morphemic -s in L2 English. We have analyzed data from the IPCE-IPAC corpus of learner oral productions, by measuring periodicity for all learner realizations of morphemic -s ...
Leonardo Contreras Roa, Paolo Mairano, Marc Capliez, Caroline Bouzon   +3 more
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Speak Kazakh: Language Ideologies in Kazakhstan's Social media in Times of Russian–Ukrainian War

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 182-193, June 2025.
ABSTRACT This article examines the construction of language ideologies on social media in the context of the use of Kazakh and Russian languages in Kazakhstan following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Through the analysis of Instagram and YouTube posts and comments from popular Kazakhstani bloggers and opinion‐makers, which were selected for the ...
Alina Kamalova
wiley   +1 more source