'Who do "they" cheer for?' Cricket, diaspora, hybridity and divided loyalties amongst British Asians [PDF]
This article explores the relationship between British Asians' sense of nationhood, citizenship, ethnicity and some of their manifestations in relation to sports fandom: specifically in terms of how cricket is used as a means of articulating diasporic ...
Anderson B +41 more
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Phonemic Transcriptions in British and American Dictionaries
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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How much exposure to English is necessary for a bilingual toddler to perform like a monolingual peer in language tests? [PDF]
Background Bilingual children are under-referred due to an ostensible expectation that they lag behind their monolingual peers in their English acquisition.
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) +76 more
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Nurse-friendly nutritional screening for patient benefit [PDF]
Screening for undernutrition is highly important and may reduce morbidity and mortality. The Minimal Eating Observation and Nutrition Form – Version II (MEONF-II) is a nutritional screening tool specifically developed for use by nurses. Here, we describe
Hagell, Peter, +4 more
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A Traditional English (Not British) Country Gentleman of the Radical Left’: Understanding the Making and Unmaking of Edward Thompson's English Idiom [PDF]
This essay discusses E. P. Thompson's relationship with an English sense of tradition, exploring in particular his shifting characterisation of an English idiom in the three closely linked, polemical rejoinders he offered to the ideas advanced by major ...
KENNY, MH
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Hungarian EFL Learners’ Language Attitudes
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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Facing the Mirror: Dilemmas and Issues Encountered on a TESOL programme in an International University Environment [PDF]
: This paper investigates the experiences of three postgraduate students studying on an MA TESOL and Applied Linguistics course in a British university context.
Leonard, J M
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A Corpus-Based, Pilot Study of Lexical Stress Variation in American English [PDF]
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 +10 more
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Unstressed Vowels in German Learner English: An Instrumental Study [PDF]
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 +66 more
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