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The foreign language lexicon of monolinguals and immigrant heritage speakers: word production, clustering and switching [PDF]

open access: yes
Research on the productive vocabulary of foreign language (FL) learners is scarce especially when it comes to researching children and immigrant heritage speakers (IHS).
Fernández Fontecha, Almudena [0000-0002-6557-0296]   +1 more
core   +1 more source

A Century of Learning: The Story of ESA's Education Committee, 1918–2025

open access: yesThe Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
Abstract The Education Committee and its precursors have been highly influential within the Ecological Society of America. Here we document the Education Committee's history, from its origins in reviewing curricular materials through major contributions to ecological literacy, teaching innovation, diversity initiatives, and professional development ...
Kenneth M. Klemow   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

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

Do you say uh or uhm? A cross-linguistic approach to filler particle use in heritage and majority speakers across three languages

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
Filler particles like uhm in English or ähm in German show subtle language-specific differences and their variation in form is related to socio-linguistic variables like gender.
Marlene Böttcher, Margaret Zellers
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Leading the Loop: Anchor‐Led Orchestration in Nascent Circular Ecosystems—A Qualitative Case Study

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The transition towards a circular economy necessitates coordinated, systemic change across value chains. Yet the role of anchor firms in initiating and orchestrating nascent circular ecosystems remains underexplored. Using an inductive, qualitative single‐case design, we analyse a German mid‐sized entrepreneurial firm, drawing on 21 interviews
Johann Felix Mader, Patrick Spieth
wiley   +1 more source

Reporting What Matters, or Reporting What Looks Good? Materiality and Balance in Post–Rana Plaza Apparel Sustainability Disclosure

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability reports (SRs) are widely criticized for vague disclosures and selective emphasis on positive outcomes, yet systematic research on two core SR challenges remains limited: materiality (whether disclosed content is relevant) and balance (whether both achievements and challenges are reported).
Mahsa Mohammadrezaei   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Case and Copular Sentences in Heritage Speakers of Russian [PDF]

open access: yes
This thesis investigates the language abilities of heritage speakers of Russian (those who learned Russian at home, but later switched to English as their primary language, such as children of immigrants) regarding predicate case alternation in copular ...
Kirsanova, Eugenia
core   +1 more source

From Material Tensions to Organizational Paradoxes: How Manufacturers Cope With the Limits of Circular Product Design

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular product design (CPD) is central to advancing the circular economy by enabling the narrowing, slowing, and closing of resource flows. Yet, its implementation remains persistently challenging for firms. Prior research has largely framed these challenges as discrete barriers, overlooking the structural contradictions embedded in CPD ...
Vanessa Robertson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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