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Diving Into High‐Variability Phonetic Training: Stimuli Type and Learners’ Auditory Selective Attention in Second Language Vowel Training

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigated the phonetic training performance of 80 first language (L1) Catalan/Spanish advanced second language (L2) English learners in a four‐session high‐variability phonetic training (HVPT) program and how their training progress interacted with stimuli type (nonwords vs. words) and individual differences in auditory selective
Ingrid Mora‐Plaza, Cristina Aliaga‐Garcia, Joan C. Mora, Mireia Ortega   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Did I have a dream last night? White dreaming as metacognitive feelings

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
While most research on sleep mentation focuses on dream reports, sleep experiences can also include reports lacking content, such as white dreaming—the feeling of knowing one dreamt but being unable to recall its contents. I claim that white dreaming is a metacognitive feeling, akin to tip‐of‐the‐tongue and déjà experiences.
Adriana Alcaraz Sánchez
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Learning Context and Program Length on L2 Skill Development

The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effects of learning context (study abroad versus at home) and program length (summer versus semester) on the development of four language skills among learners of Chinese as a second language (L2). A total of 725 L2 Chinese learners completed standardized proficiency tests before and after participating in their ...
Yuan Lu, Chuanren Ke
wiley   +1 more source

Disagreement About Fiscal Policy

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Politicians disagree about fiscal policy. This disagreement should have economic effects beyond the effects of government spending and taxation. We use the full set of speeches in the German Bundestag since 1960 and apply state‐of‐the art natural language processing techniques to construct two series of fiscal disagreement starting in 1970 ...
Albina Latifi, Viktoriia Naboka‐Krell, Peter Tillmann, Peter Winker   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Long‐Term Efficacy and Safety of Oleogel‐S10 (Birch Triterpenes) for Pediatric Patients With Epidermolysis Bullosa

Pediatric Dermatology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Pediatric patients with epidermolysis bullosa (EB) experience lifelong complications, and wound healing is an important treatment goal. In the phase III EASE study (NCT03068780), Oleogel‐S10 accelerated wound healing in EB.
Eli Sprecher, Mauricio Torres‐Pradilla, Maria Florencia Fernandez, Christine Bodemer, Anna L. Bruckner, Silvia Maria de Macedo Barbosa, Andrea Diociaiuti, Anna E. Martinez, Francis Palisson, Miloš Nikolić, Asunción Vicente, Raúl de Lucas, Noemi Toiber Temin, Sandra Löwe, Johannes S. Kern, Dédée F. Murrell, the EASE Study Group   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Peri‐implantitis—Is it mainly a clinician‐initiated complication of implant therapy?

Periodontology 2000, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim The high prevalence of peri‐implantitis is concerning, with a growing consensus that the majority of cases are complications initiated by clinician‐related errors rather than classic pathology. A primary predisposing factor for peri‐implantitis is exposure of the micro‐rough implant surfaces to the peri‐implant sulcus after treatment ...
Stephen T. Chen, Alberto Monje, Franz J. Strauss, Frank Schwarz, Andrea Roccuzzo, Irena Sailer, Dennis Tarnow, France Lambert, Sascha Jovanovic, Daniel Buser   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Goldilocks Effect: How the “Just Right” Writing Styles of Global Corporate Responsibility Frameworks Shapes Their Use by Businesses

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 21st century has witnessed a surge in the number of global corporate responsibility (GCR) frameworks issued by international organizations (IOs). Our study investigates whether and to what extent these frameworks shape businesses' Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) communications.
Adam William Chalmers, Robyn Klingler‐Vidra   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
wiley   +1 more source

Geopolitical Risk and Military Spending: Reassessing Specification and Measurement

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tran and Vo analysed English‐language‐based geopolitical risk (GPR) indices and argued that local GPR dominates global GPR in explaining military spending worldwide. We revisit this claim by addressing limitations in their empirical design and measurement.
Ngoc Duc Lang, Vinh The Nguyen, Nam Thanh Vu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Independent Effects of Age, Education, Verbal Working Memory, Motor Speed of Processing, Locality, and Morphosyntactic Category on Verb‐Related Morphosyntactic Production: Evidence From Healthy Aging

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the role of locality (a task/material‐related variable), demographic factors (age, education, and sex), cognitive capacities (verbal working memory [WM], verbal short‐term memory [STM], speed of processing [SOP], and inhibition), and morphosyntactic category (time reference and grammatical aspect) in verb‐related ...
Marielena Soilemezidi, Maki Kubota, Marina Chrisikopoulou, Valantis Fyndanis   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source