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English in the Digital Age: Making English Digital

open access: yes, 2010
Despite the emphasis in the press and elsewhere on the print based nature of English curriculum, opportunities to develop digital English, with attention to web-based and multimodal forms of text, literacy, location, and activity, are present the ...
Beavis, Catherine
core   +2 more sources

Acoustic Analysis of Vowels in Australian Aboriginal English Spoken in Victoria

open access: yesLanguages
(1) Background: Australian Aboriginal English (AAE) is a variety known to differ in various ways from the mainstream, but to date very little phonetic analysis has been carried out.
Debbie Loakes, Adele Gregory
doaj   +1 more source

Foreign subtitles help but native-language subtitles harm foreign speech perception. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2009
Understanding foreign speech is difficult, in part because of unusual mappings between sounds and words. It is known that listeners in their native language can use lexical knowledge (about how words ought to sound) to learn how to interpret unusual ...
Holger Mitterer, James M McQueen
doaj   +1 more source

Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes

open access: yesC21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings
In recent years, a range of commercial home surveillance products have emerged that foreground ‘cuteness’ as a selling point. From small cat-shaped cameras with detachable ears to ‘pocket robots’ equipped with speech recognition, movable feet, and ...
Tyne Daile Sumner
doaj   +2 more sources

Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Matsuo Basho’s Oku no Hosomichi

open access: yesCoolabah, 2017
This paper investigates Australian author Richard Flanagan’s novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, and attempts to clarify the reason why Flanagan chose this title, which is linked to the travel writings of the Japanese author Matsuo Basho, for his ...
Yasue Arimitsu
doaj   +1 more source

Folklinguistics and social meaning in Australian English.

open access: yes, 2019
Folklinguistics and Social Meaning in Australian English presents an original study of Australian English and, via this, insights into Australian society.
Penry Williams, Cara
core   +1 more source

Risk Prediction Models for Recurrence After Curative Treatment of Early‐Stage or Locally Advanced Lung Cancer: A Systematic Review

open access: yesAging and Cancer, EarlyView.
This systematic review synthesizes prognostic models for survival and recurrence in resected non‐small cell lung cancer. While many models demonstrate moderate to good discrimination, few are externally validated and reporting quality is variable, limiting clinical applicability and highlighting the need for robust, transparent model development ...
Evangeline Samuel   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Names for Weather Disasters in Australia

open access: yesВопросы ономастики
Despite the importance of weather disasters, the names that people give them have been little treated in scholarship, both from an Australian perspective and from that of other parts of the world. This article explores patterns in the naming of bushfires
Helen Bromhead
doaj   +1 more source

Structural-Semantic Peculiarities of Derogatory Marked Ethnonyms of the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand English Language

open access: yesИзвестия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2016
The article studies word formation of the derogatory marked ethnonyms (DME) of the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand English Language. DME are classified according to the method of word formation, the type of semantic transfer and deliberate phonetic ...
Tsebrovskaya Tatyana Alexandrovna
doaj   +1 more source

Differential Item Functioning on the Patient Health Questionnaire 8 by Disease Subtype, Language, Sex, and Age Among People With Systemic Sclerosis: A Scleroderma Patient‐Centered Intervention Network Cohort Study

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Somatic items used in depression assessments can potentially overlap with symptoms related to physical illness, including systemic sclerosis (SSc). No studies have looked at whether somatic depression items may be influenced by diffuse versus limited SSc disease subtypes, which are associated with varying degrees of symptom presentation.
Sophie Hu   +110 more
wiley   +1 more source

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