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“RIP English”: Race, class and ‘good English’ in India
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
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Sociology after the postcolonial: Response to Julian Go's ‘thinking against empire’
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
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Metacognition in Second Language Speech Perception and Production
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
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Reducing Audible Spectral Discontinuities [PDF]
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
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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
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An Airflow Analysis of Spanish and English Anticipatory Vowel Nasalization among Heritage Bilinguals
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
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Acoustic cues of palatalisation in plosive + lateral onset clusters [PDF]
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
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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
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The electropalatographic study of the coarticulatory effect of vowels on coronal stops in Persian
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
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Coarticulation in Fluent Fingerspelling [PDF]
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
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