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Forensic Linguistics: Science or Fiction? [PDF]
The history of linguistics is meager and splintered due to the subject’s interdisciplinary nature. In the postwar era, the discipline attempted to revive as a scientific one, spearheaded by Noam Chomsky and his theory of generative grammar.
Shim, Abigail
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African linguistics across the disciplines [PDF]
Since the hiring of its first Africanist linguist Carleton Hodge in 1964, Indiana University’s Department of Linguistics has had a strong and continuing presence in the study of African languages and linguistics through the work of its faculty and of its
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A Genre Analysis of Research Article Abstracts in Forensic Linguistics
As a key genre in the academic discourse community, research articles (RA) have enjoyed great popularity over the years. A key component of the RA is the RA abstract. Its essence is seen in its objective of giving an overview of the study.
Isaac Essoun +2 more
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GENERAL AND LOCAL ISSUES IN FORENSIC LINGUISTICS: ARABIC AS A CASE STUDY
This paper is concerned with four main aspects or parts of forensic linguistics: Forensic linguistics in speech mode and in writing, the special status of Arabic, linguistic problems and possibilities of translation for forensics, and Language Analysis ...
Judith ROSENHOUSE
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Calculation of likelihood ratios for inference of biological sex from human skeletal remains
It is common in forensic anthropology to draw inferences (e.g., inferences with respect to biological sex of human remains) using statistical models applied to anthropometric data.
Geoffrey Stewart Morrison +4 more
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In the context of forensic casework, are there meaningful metrics of the degree of calibration?
Forensic-evaluation systems should output likelihood-ratio values that are well calibrated. If they do not, their output will be misleading. Unless a forensic-evaluation system is intrinsically well-calibrated, it should be calibrated using a ...
Geoffrey Stewart Morrison
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New consonantal acoustic parameters for forensic speaker comparison [PDF]
This thesis examines acoustic parameters of five consonants /m, n, ŋ, l, s/ in two dialects of British English: Standard Southern British English and Leeds English.
Kavanagh, Colleen
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On the Issue of Expert Terms in Forensic Linguistics
The article addresses the problem of using a deliberative category of “expert terms” in forensic linguistics. The issue is related to the questions of the relations between the linguistic and legal terms standing for so-called speech offenses and the use
V. О. Kuznetsov
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The fifteenth annual Name of the Year vote was held during the online annual conference of the American Name Society on January 23, 2022. The vote was chaired by Deborah Walker, the ANS Name of the Year Coordinator, and was attended by 23 international ...
I. M. Nick
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Book review by I. M. Nick of Michael Ohl's The Art of Naming [ISBN: 978-0-262-53703-2].
I. M. Nick
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