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Smoothie or Fruit Salad? Learners’ Descriptions of Accents as Windows to Concept Formation [PDF]
, 2015 This paper explores the linguistically naive descriptions which one set of EFL learners provided when identifying and describing accents. First and second-year English majors at a French university were asked to do two tasks.
Alice Henderson +70 more
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Essential work, invisible workers: The role of digital curation in COVID‐19 Open Science
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 703-717, April 2025.Abstract In this paper, we examine the role digital curation practices and practitioners played in facilitating open science (OS) initiatives amid the COVID‐19 pandemic. In Summer 2023, we conducted a content analysis of available information regarding 50 OS initiatives that emerged—or substantially shifted their focus—between 2020 and 2022 to address ...
Irene V. Pasquetto +2 more
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European Heights in the Early 18th Century [PDF]
, 2005 We estimate the height of various European populations in the first half of the 18th century. English and Irish male heights are estimated at c. 65 inches (165 cm), and c. 66 inches (168 cm) respectively.
Cinnirella, Francesco, Komlos, John
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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British and American English: a Comparative Study in Relation to Teaching English at Stain Purwokerto [PDF]
, 2008 Materi dan pembelajaran bahasa Inggris di Indonesia pada umumnya tidak terlalu memperhatikan perbedaan antara bahasaInggris model British dan America, bahkan ia merupakan campuran antara keduanya.
Munjin, M. (Munjin)
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Animacy in early New Zealand english [PDF]
, 2012 The literature suggests that animacy effects in present-day spoken New Zealand English (NZE) differ from animacy effects in other varieties of English. We seek to determine if such differences have a history in earlier NZE writing or not.
Hundt, Marianne, Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt
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Regional Shopping Objectives in British Grocery Retail Transactions Using Segmented Topic Models
Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding the customer behaviours behind transactional data has high commercial value in the grocery retail industry. Customers generate millions of transactions every day, choosing and buying products to satisfy specific shopping needs.
Mariflor Vega Carrasco +4 more
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Responding to accents after experiencing interactive or mediated speech [PDF]
, 2011 Very little known is about how speakers learn about and/or respond to speech experienced without the possibility for interaction. This paper reports an experiment which considers the effects of two kinds of exposure to speech (interactive or non ...
Holmes, S. +4 more
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What is Othello’s Secret? [PDF]
, 2015 Explicitly written from the perspective of a second-generation British Cypriot, this article examines the relevance of Shakespeare’s Othello to the modern troubles of Cyprus.
Christofides, R.M.
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Autism Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is a critical need to understand the early vocabulary of young children with autism who have limited language, defined in this study as producing fewer than 20 different spontaneous and functional spoken or augmented words, to better inform educational targets and vocabulary selection for spoken as well as augmentative and alternative ...
Eunji Kong +7 more
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