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Scrunch, growze, or chobble?: investigating regional variation in sound symbolism in the Survey of English Dialects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper draws on data extracted from Upton et al.’s (1994) Survey of English Dialects: The Dictionary and Grammar in investigating the regional distribution across England of sound symbolic phonesthemes, that is, word-initial consonant clusters which ...
Wright, D
core  

Consumer Preferences for Craft Beer: The Interplay of Localness and Advertising Language

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the influence of the language of the label, origin of production, and origin of brewing ingredients on Croatian consumers' preferences and willingness to pay for organic craft beer. Employing an online survey and a choice experiment among 223 Croatian alcohol consumers, we find that while there's a willingness to pay a ...
Marija Cerjak   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

[R] in Germanic dialects – tradition or innovation? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The quality of [R] in Germanic dialects is one of the most discussed phonological topics in Historical Linguistics, ircling around one main question: Was it front or back? Scholars have proposed a back sound arisen through foreign influence as well as a
Bisiada, Mario
core   +1 more source

National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Variety of Adramytti and Its Relationship to Modern Lesbian: Dialect Formation and Classification

open access: yesLanguages
Modern Greek was spoken along the northwestern coast of Asia Minor until the early 20th century, yet neither its precise geographical extent nor its dialectal classification is well established.
Nikos Liosis, Dionysis Mertyris
doaj   +1 more source

Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The FACE of Change in English Dialects: 1950 v 2018 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In this case study we examine change in the FACE vowel across England. We used contemporary dialect data from more than 40,000 speakers – collected with the English Dialects smartphone app – and compared them to historical Atlas data from the 1950s ...
Britain, David   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

A Pragmatic Trial of a Shared Decision‐Making Intervention to Improve Medication Adherence and Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: The HCQ‐SAFE Study

open access: yesArthritis &Rheumatology, EarlyView.
Objective Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) nonadherence in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) stemming from decision complexities can be improved with shared decision‐making (SDM) tools clarifying benefits and harms. This study aimed to develop and evaluate HCQ‐SAFE, a pictogram‐based SDM tool during SLE visits.
Caroline Packee   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Functional usage of two codes among students [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2017
The aim of this paper is to present attitudes towards the usage of native dialect and standard language among students, and to establish if certain sociodemographic variables may affect further differences in the answers of the survey participants ...
Miketić-Subotić Sanja D.
doaj   +1 more source

Between Three Languages, Dialects and Forms of Mixed Speech: Dialect and Language Contacts in Ukrainian-Belarusian Transitional Area [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The territory roughly delimitated by the rivers Dnipro, Sož and Desna, geo-politically set between Ukraine, Belarus’ and not far from the Russian Federation, presents a particularly interesting language situation. In this geo-dialectal “triangle” coexist
Salvatore Del Gaudio   +1 more
core   +1 more source

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