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A Corpus-Based, Pilot Study of Lexical Stress Variation in American English [PDF]

, 2010
Phonological free variation describes the phenomenon of there being more than one pronunciation for a word without any change in meaning (e.g. because, schedule, vehicle).
A. Cruttenden, A. McEnery, A. McEnery, Alice Henderson, D. Temperley, J. Mompéan, J. Wells, J. Wells, M Celce-Murcia, P. Trudgill, Y. Shitara   +10 more
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Phonemic Transcriptions in British and American Dictionaries

ELOPE, 2005
In view of recent criticisms concerning vowel symbols in some British English dictionaries (in particular by J. Windsor Lewis in JIPA (Windsor Lewis, 2003), with regard to the Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation (Upton, 2001), this article extends the ...
Rastislav Šuštaršič
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Unstressed Vowels in German Learner English: An Instrumental Study [PDF]

, 2014
This study investigates the production of vowels in unstressed syllables by advanced German learners of English in comparison with native speakers of Standard Southern British English. Two acoustic properties were measured: duration and formant structure.
Abercrombie, Abercrombie, Barry, Barry, Broselow, Broselow, Crystal, Crystal, Delattre, Delattre, Dellwo, Dellwo, Di, Di, Dretzke, Dretzke, Flege, Flege, German, German, German, German, Ghazali, Ghazali, Gibbon, Gibbon, Giegerich, Giegerich, Hansen Edwards, Hansen Edwards, Hoffmann, Hoffmann, Kaltenbacher, Kaltenbacher, Kendall, Kendall, Kohler, Kohler, Lee, Lee, Lukas Soenning, Mahwah, Mahwah, Nespor, Nespor, Ordin, Ordin, Parkes, Parkes, Pascoe, Pascoe, Peterson, Peterson, Pike, Pike, Porzuczek, Porzuczek, Prosodic, Prosodic, Roach, Roach, Traunmüller, Traunmüller, Wesener, Wesener, Wilcox, Wilcox   +66 more
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Word juncture characteristics in world Englishes: a research report [PDF]

, 2014
The subtle juncture cues in older varieties of English such as Received Pronunciation can be difficult for speakers of new English varieties to perceive.
Bolton, Boucher, Brown, Chan, Christie, Deterding, Deterding, Gargesh, Gårding, Hawkins, Hung, Hung, Kim, Kirkpatrick, Kirkpatrick, Lehiste, Li, Lindblom, Low, Mattys, Nakatani, Quené, Redford, Rietveld, Schneider, Schwab, Setter, Setter, Setter, Tayao, Trask, Treiman, Treiman, Wong, Wong, Wong   +35 more
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Hungarian EFL Learners’ Language Attitudes

Americana
This paper focuses on Hungarian EFL learners’ attitudes toward Hungarian-accented and native varieties of English, with a special focus on the impact of American English on Hungarian EFL learners’ accent preferences.
Gyöngyi Püski
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Hewitson on Butterflies 1867-1877. William C. Hewitson. Hampton, Middlesex: E. W. Classey, 1972. [246] pp; various paginations. $12.50. Distributed exclusively in North America by Entomological Reprint Specialists, Los Angeles, California. [PDF]

, 2017
The English naturalist William C. Hewitson (1806-78) was trained as a surveyor, but various good fortunes enabled him to retire at an early age and devote his attention to the pursuit of natural history.
Wilkinson, Ronald S.
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A New Humanism? Toward a Reconsideration of the Ideals and Pragmatics Shaping Electronic Scholarly Publication in the Arts Today

Digital Studies, 1997
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R G Siemens
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Verbal reflection of the concept «insularity» as part of the British conceptual worldview (based on the material of «The Economist»)

Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология, 2021
In modern research, works dealing with peculiarities of various cultures and the connection between concepts and cultures are becoming more and more topical. British mentality inevitably finds its linguistic representation in British English.
L. L. Baranova, L. F. Mishina
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Evaluation in media texts: a cross-cultural linguistic investigation [PDF]

, 2004
A quantitative/interpretative approach to the comparative linguistic analysis of media texts is proposed and applied to a contrastive analysis of texts from the English-language China Daily and the UK Times to look for evidence of differences in what ...
Chen, L.
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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

Arthritis 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, Marie‐Eve Carrier, Marie‐Claude Geoffroy, Meira Golberg, Linda Kwakkenbos, Susan J. Bartlett, Catherine Fortuné, Amy Gietzen, Karen Gottesman, Geneviève Guillot, Laura K. Hummers, Amanda Lawrie‐Jones, Vanessa L. Malcarne, Michelle Richard, Maureen Sauvé, Luc Mouthon, Andrea Benedetti, Brett D. Thombs, on behalf of the SPIN Investigators, Claire E. Adams, Marie Hudson, Maureen D. Mayes, James Stempel, Robyn K. Wojeck, Christian Agard, Laurent Alric, Marc André, Floryan Beaslay, Elana J. Bernstein, Sabine Berthier, Lyne Bissonnette, Sophie Blaise, Eva Bories, Alessandra Bruns, Carlotta Cacciatore, Patricia Carreira, Marion Casadevall, Benjamin Chaigne, Lorinda Chung, Benjamin Crichi, Thylbert Deltombe, Christopher P. Denton, Tannvir Desroche, Robyn Domsic, James V. Dunne, Bertrand Dunogue, Regina Fare, Dominique Farge‐Bancel, Paul R. Fortin, Tracy Frech, Loraine Gauzère, Anne Gerber, Jessica K. Gordon, Brigitte Granel‐Rey, Aurélien Guffroy, Geneviève Gyger, Eric Hachulla, Daphna Harel, Monique Hinchcliff, Sabrina Hoa, Michael Hugues, Alena Ikic, Sindhu R. Johnson, Nader Khalidi, Kimberly S. Lakin, Marc Lambert, Maggie Larche, David Launay, Yvonne C. Lee, Paul Legendre, Catarina Leite, Hélène Maillard, Nancy Maltez, Joanne Manning, Isabelle Marie, Maria Martin Lopez, Thierry Martin, Ariel Masetto, Arsène Mekinian, Sheila Melchor Díaz, Morgane Mourguet, Christelle Nguyen, Karen Nielsen, Mandana Nikpour, Louis Olagne, Vincent Poindron, Janet Pope, Susanna Proudman, Grégory Pugnet, Loïc Raffray, François Rannou, Alexis Régent, Frederic Renou, Sébastien Rivière, David Robinson, Esther Rodríguez Almazar, Tatiana Sofia Rodríguez‐Reyna, Sophie Roux, Perrine Smets, Vincent Sobanski, Robert F. Spiera, Virginia Steen, Evelyn Sutton, Carter Thorne, Damien Vagner, John Varga, Pearce Wilcox, Vanessa Cook, Cassidy Dal Santo, Monica D'Onofrio, Elsa‐Lynn Nassar   +110 more
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