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The Influence of Language Experience on Speech Perception: Heritage Spanish Speaker Perception of Contrastive and Allophonic Consonants

open access: yesLanguages
It is well known that a listener’s native phonological background has an impact on how speech sounds are perceived. Native speakers can distinguish sounds that serve a contrastive function in their language better than sounds that are not contrastive ...
Amanda Boomershine, Keith Johnson
doaj   +1 more source

Where Do We Fit? Reflections on Research Interview Practice, Project Design, and Interpretation**

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
What is special about historical research interviews in the history of science, technology, and medicine, and how do they compare to the tools of oral historians and social scientists? This essay reflects on three interview projects I have undertaken, each taking a distinct shape.
Dmitriy Myelnikov
wiley   +1 more source

Complexity matters: On gender agreement in Heritage Scandinavian

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
This paper investigates aspects of the noun phrase from a heritage language perspective, with an emphasis on noun phrase-internal gender agreement and noun declension.
Janne Bondi Johannessen, Ida eLarsson
doaj   +1 more source

The acquisition of clitic pronouns by European Portuguese heritage speakers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper examines the competence of heritage speakers of Portuguese living in Germany with respect to clitic placement in Portuguese by comparing their performance with that of monolingual speakers of the same age (7-15 years of age) in a test designed
Barbosa, Pilar, Flores, Cristina
core  

Learning with Patient Campaigners About a German Drug Scandal

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
The West German drug Duogynon was internationally marketed as a “hormone pregnancy test” (HPT) between the 1950s and 1980s. In the late 1960s it came under suspicion for inducing miscarriage, spina bifida, and a spectrum of birth defects similar to those caused by the sedative thalidomide.
Jesse Olszynko‐Gryn   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impacts of biological invasions

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock   +42 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualising Supply Chain Resilience Within Social Enterprises

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research seeks to conceptualise supply chain resilience (SCRes) in a social enterprise (SE) context, focusing on SEs with a social mission to tackle food insecurity and food poverty. Despite the increasingly mature field of SCRes and awareness of the critical role SEs play in tackling social challenges such as food poverty, no studies ...
Alexander James Jones   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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