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Head Gestures Do Not Serve as Precursors of Prosodic Focus Marking in the Second Language as They Do in the First Language

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Research shows that children use head gestures to mark discourse focus before developing the required prosodic cues in their first language (L1), and their gestures affect the prosodic parameters of their speech. We investigated whether head gestures also act as precursors and bootstrappers of prosodic focus marking in second language (L2 ...
Lieke van Maastricht, Núria Esteve‐Gibert   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reading versus listening: Which one is more effective for incidental vocabulary learning?

The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The article examines incidental vocabulary acquisition, focusing on the differential impacts of input modalities—reading versus listening—on learning of single words and multi‐word expressions. Eighty‐eight university students of L2 Italian were assigned to one of the three groups: (a) reading half of an authentic Italian novel, (b) listening ...
Mahnaz Aliyar, Anna Siyanova‐Chanturia, Stephen Skalicky   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Portfolio of compositions [PDF]

, 2013
This text contains a short general description of my experience at the University of Birmingham. This is an attempt to communicate how my perception in composing music has changed and evolved.
Malavasi, Matteo
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Imagining the Nation in the 21st Century

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how our imagining of the nation has evolved from the 1600s to this day. Reviewing the well‐known analysis of Benedict Anderson, this paper carries the argument further, investigating how our imagining of our national communities has changed alongside sociopolitical, economic and technological transformations.
Anna Triandafyllidou
wiley   +1 more source

InCHORRRuS: Infant‐Directed Communication Highlights and Organizes Repetition and Redundancy Through Rhythmic Structure

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, EarlyView.
In the InCHORRRuS (Infant‐directed (ID) Communication Highlights and Organizes Repetition and Redundancy through Rhythmic Structure) framework, increased rhythmicity in ID speech and the beat‐based metrically structured rhythmicity in ID song naturally organize the multimodally redundant and repetitive cues in the caregiver's communicative signals ...
Camila Alviar, Warren Jones, Miriam Lense   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indo-U.S. FTA: Prospects for Audiovisual Services [PDF]

Many WTO (World Trade Organization) member countries, including India, are defensive about opening up of the audiovisual sector in the Doha Round due to reasons of cultural sensitivity.
Arpita Mukherjee, Paramita Deb Gupta, Prerna Ahuja   +2 more
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Transition to online psychological support – Barriers, stereotypes and challenges from the perspective of service providers

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives This qualitative study, which provides practical insights for the field, described the transition process of psychological service providers towards online care provision. We aimed to describe the process of professionals' adaptation to new methods of distant psychological care, including its main facilitating and complicating ...
Miroslav Charvát, Leona Jochmannová, Petra Zia Sluková, Lucie Viktorová   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating the Essentials Core Competencies Related to Health Literacy Into Undergraduate Curriculum: Tapping Traditional and Emerging Education Strategies

Public Health Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in healthcare systems regarding health literacy. Although involving individuals, families, and communities in healthcare decision‐making improves their outcomes, their ability to interpret information depends on attention to health literacy and readability of materials.
Karen L. Valcheff, Deidra S. Pennington, Sarah K. Keaton, Kimberly Ferren Carter   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact Assessment as Agenda‐Setting: Procedural Politicking and the Mobilization of Bias in the European Union's Audiovisual Media Services Directive

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Though often framed as a technocratic tool, impact assessment is a core element of the political agenda‐setting process. In this article, we show that decisions about what is subject to legislative debate are made during impact assessment; specifically, during the drafting of the assessment report.
Eleanor Brooks, Kathrin Lauber
wiley   +1 more source

From Margins to Networks: Minoritized Language Digital Content Creation's Impact on Linguistic Ideologies: The Galician Case

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT By focusing on Galician‐language online content creation through a corpus of semistructured interviews with eight professional and semiprofessional influencers, this paper examines how language ideologies surrounding minoritized languages have been shaped and reshaped because of their inclusion in the digital realm.
Ramón Brais Freire Braña
wiley   +1 more source