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Speaking to Power: How Linguistic Minority Accents Shape Voter Perceptions of Party Leaders
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In multilingual countries, does the way minority group members speak the majority language hinder their chances of attaining the highest political office? Can their accent undermine their claim to represent all citizens? Is it associated with certain stereotypes?
Florence Laflamme, Philippe Chassé
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Cue-reliance and vowel perceptual patterns of Cypriot Greek children who learn English
Estudios de Fonética Experimental, 2019 The aim of the present study is to investigate the vowel perceptual patterns of Cypriot Greek children who learn English as a foreign language in Cyprus and their cue-reliance during L2 vowel categorization.
Georgios P. Georgiou
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Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many, perhaps even most, philosophers hold that, in order to promise someone something, the promisor must intend to communicate what they are promising. I argue against this claim, explain why it matters to the nature of promising, and sketch an alternative picture of normatively powerful speech acts.
Eliot Michaelson
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The Question of Referentiality
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Most theorists have offered different accounts of reference fixing for names, demonstratives, and indexicals. Indeed, this variety can seem an inevitable response to a certain class of hard cases. Here, I will offer a unified account of reference fixing equally capable of handling these cases.
Eliot Michaelson
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Prosody and melody in vowel disorder [PDF]
, 1999 The paper explores the syllabic and segmental dimensions of phonological vowel disorder. The independence of the two dimensions is illustrated by the case study of an English-speaking child presenting with an impairment which can be shown to have a ...
Watson, J, Bates, S, Harris, J
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Between 1609 and 1614, after over a century of forced conversions, cultural oppression and inquisitorial persecution, Spain expelled its morisco subjects. Despite being baptised Christians, the descendants of Spain's Muslim population had been deemed incapable of sincerely following the Christian faith and assimilating into society due to ...
Elizabeth Liliann Blakemore
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Phonological interference toward the english speech by Buginese native speaker
, 2008 a Phonological interference toward the english speech by Buginese native speakerxiii, 78 pages; 27 ...
Indo Esse
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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 +3 more
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