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“RIP English”: Race, class and ‘good English’ in India

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 184-201, August 2023., 2023
Abstract This article explores how metapragmatic discourses on “good” and “bad” English in India are mobilized in ways that allow actors to negotiate their status as English speakers. Adopting an intersectional framework that highlights the relationality of colonial, racialized, and classed claims to authority, the article shows how the co ...
Katy Highet
wiley   +1 more source

Sociology after the postcolonial: Response to Julian Go's ‘thinking against empire’

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 310-323, June 2023., 2023
Abstract Julian Go's ‘Thinking Against Empire’ identifies the corpus of ‘anticolonial thought’ as being instructive for a wider rethinking of how sociology might rally its key conceptualisations of social relations. He insightfully identifies the marginalisation of such thinking from Sociology as an institutionalised discipline. In our response we take
Sivamohan Valluvan, Nisha Kapoor
wiley   +1 more source

Metacognition in Second Language Speech Perception and Production

open access: yesLanguage Learning, Volume 73, Issue 2, Page 508-542, June 2023., 2023
Abstract In this study, we assessed metacognition in nonnative language speech perception and production. Spanish novice learners of French identified and produced the French vowel contrast /ø/–/œ/ and, on each trial, rated their confidence in their responses.
Natalia Kartushina   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reducing Audible Spectral Discontinuities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
In this paper, a common problem in diphone synthesis is discussed, viz., the occurrence of audible discontinuities at diphone boundaries. Informal observations show that spectral mismatch is most likely the cause of this phenomenon.We first set out to ...
Klabbers, Esther, Veldhuis, Raymond
core   +2 more sources

Development of anticipatory coarticulation of /u/ in typically Malayalam speaking children in the age range of 3-6 years

open access: yesJournal of Child Language Acquisition and Development
Coarticulation is the articulation of two or more speech sounds together, so that one influences the other. Coarticulation is language dependent and can vary from children to adult.
Litna A. Varghese
doaj   +3 more sources

An Airflow Analysis of Spanish and English Anticipatory Vowel Nasalization among Heritage Bilinguals

open access: yesLanguages, 2023
Gestural timing overlap between a vowel and subsequent nasal consonant results in the vowel being articulatorily nasalized. Research has shown that such degree of coarticulation varies cross-linguistically (e.g., English exhibits a greater gestural ...
Ander Beristain
doaj   +1 more source

Acoustic cues of palatalisation in plosive + lateral onset clusters [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Palatalisation of /l/ in obstruent + lateral onset clusters in the absence of a following palatal sound has received a considerable amount of attention from historical linguistics.
Martín Mota, Sidney, Müller, Daniela
core   +1 more source

Producing and perceiving socially structured coarticulation: Coarticulatory nasalization in Afrikaans

open access: yesLaboratory Phonology, 2022
Most theories of phonetics assume a tight relation between production and perception, and recent years have also seen increasing evidence for such a relation at the level of the individual.
Andries Coetzee   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The electropalatographic study of the coarticulatory effect of vowels on coronal stops in Persian

open access: yesActa Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica, 2019
Using electropalatographic (EPG) data, we study the coarticulatory effect of intervocalic contexts on the Persian coronal stops [t] and [d]. The EPG patterns demonstrate that [d] is produced in a more anterior place than [t], proving the former to be a ...
Maral Asiaee   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Coarticulation in Fluent Fingerspelling [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Neuroscience, 2003
In speech, the phenomenon of coarticulation (differentiation of phoneme production depending on the preceding or following phonemes) suggests an organization of movement sequences that is not strictly serial. In the skeletal motor system, however, evidence for comparable fluency has been lacking.
Thomas E, Jerde   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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