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Spectral Characteristics of Schwa in Czech Accented English [PDF]

, 2013
The English central mid lax vowel (i.e., schwa) often contributes considerably to the sound differences between native and non-native speech. Many foreign speakers of English fail to reduce certain underlying vowels to schwa, which, on the suprasegmental
Ashby, Ashby, Barry, Barry, Boersma, Boersma, Browman, Browman, Derwing, Derwing, Fry, Fry, Gobl, Gobl, Hammarberg, Hammarberg, Hanson, Hanson, Jan Volín, Keysar, Keysar, Lenka Weingartová, Lindblom, Lindblom, Nakatani, Nakatani, Radek Skarnitzl, Sluijter, Sluijter, Sundberg, Sundberg, Volín, Volín   +32 more
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Trajectories of Physical Function in Canadian Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objectives We describe trajectories of physical function in children newly diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and identify trajectories with persisting functional impairments and associated baseline characteristics. Methods We included patients enrolled in the Canadian Alliance of Pediatric Rheumatology Investigators (CAPRI) Registry ...
Clare Cunningham, Meghan McPherson, Lillian Lim, Roberta A. Berard, Matthew Berkowitz, Jean‐Philippe Proulx‐Gauthier, Brian M. Feldman, Nicole Johnson, Dax G. Rumsey, Heinrike Schmeling, Lori B. Tucker, Thomas Loughin, Kristin M. Houghton, Jaime Guzman, The CAPRI Registry Investigators   +14 more
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Lemmatization and parsing with TACT preprocessing programs

Digital Studies, 1996
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R G Siemens
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Building a Framework for Sexual and Reproductive Health Care in the Rheumatology Context: Content and Approaches

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
People with systemic autoimmune and rheumatic diseases (SARDs) are at higher risk than the general population of experiencing adverse pregnancy and perinatal outcomes such as preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, and maternal and/or fetal death.
Mehret Birru Talabi, Sonya Borrero
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating the climate change minefield: the influence of metaphor on climate doomism

Frontiers in Communication
Climate doomism is an increasing concern for climate change communication. In the United States, this opinion regarding anthropogenic climate change is now more prevalent than climate skepticism, and is the primary reason cited for opposition to climate ...
Caitlin Johnstone, Elise Stickles, Elise Stickles   +2 more
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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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Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
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From the British Isles to Ceylon, or English in Sri Lanka [PDF]

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2018
Although Sri Lanka was a site of colonization of the Portuguese, Dutch and (under the treaty of Amiens in 1802) British, it was the English language that had the strongest influence on the indigenous population of the island as the earlier colonizers ...
Olga Laskowska
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Creating a ‘new space’: code-switching among British-born Greek-Cypriots in London [PDF]

, 2013
This paper, located in the traditions of Interactional Sociolinguistics (Gumperz 1982) and Social Constructionism (Berger and Luckmann 1966), explores code-switching and identity practices amongst British-born Greek-Cypriots.
Finnis, Katerina
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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