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L2 Acquisition of a Complex Stress Pattern: UG-Constrained Learning Paths in Khalkha Mongolian. [PDF]
Özçelik Ö.
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Abstract Research shows that children use head gestures to mark discourse focus before developing the required prosodic cues in their first language (L1), and their gestures affect the prosodic parameters of their speech. We investigated whether head gestures also act as precursors and bootstrappers of prosodic focus marking in second language (L2 ...
Lieke van Maastricht +1 more
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Cognitive Crescendo: How Music Shapes the Brain's Structure and Function. [PDF]
Toader C +8 more
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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How to make people do things with words
Abstract Sometimes we do what other people tell us to. A natural thought is that the motivation to act on an instruction comes about rationally as the result of interpreting an imperative and deciding to act on it; that is, by updating on information that gets mediated through belief‐desire reasoning.
Henry Schiller, Shaun Nichols
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11. How Prosody Marks Shifts in Footing in Classroom Discourse
David Skidmore, Kyoko Murakami
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Text as tape: On the voice in the late prose of Friederike Mayröcker
Abstract For a text to have a voice means to be caught in a paradox: the text obviously does not speak, so what is that tone rising from the pages? Taking hold of a striking ambivalence, this essay examines the relationship between text and voice in the late prose of Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker.
Astrid Elander
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Our findings highlight that preoperative FMR assessment could reliably benefit surgeons in patient education and surgical timing determination, as FMR demonstrates superior predictive capacity compared to BMI for both complications and 12‐month patient‐reported outcomes following knee arthroplasty.
Long Zhao +5 more
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Comparative Analysis of Majority Language Influence on North Sámi Prosody Using WaveNet-Based modeling. [PDF]
Hiovain K, Suni A, Kakouros S, Šimko J.
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