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Majority English of Heritage Speakers [PDF]
This dissertation focuses on heritage speakers - bilinguals who grow up speaking two languages: the language of their family, or the heritage language, and the main language of the larger society, or the majority language. We examine the majority language English of German, Greek, Russian and Turkish HSs in the USA and compare it to the English of ...
Pashkova, Tatiana +4 more
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Languages, 2023 This article presents RuPro, a new corpus resource of prosodically annotated speech by Russian heritage speakers in the U.S. and monolingually raised Russian speakers.
Sabine Zerbian +2 more
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Metaphors of language : the Vepsian ecology challenges an international paradigm [PDF]
, 2015 Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Siragusa, Laura
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Consumer Preferences for Craft Beer: The Interplay of Localness and Advertising Language
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores the influence of the language of the label, origin of production, and origin of brewing ingredients on Croatian consumers' preferences and willingness to pay for organic craft beer. Employing an online survey and a choice experiment among 223 Croatian alcohol consumers, we find that while there's a willingness to pay a ...
Marija Cerjak +2 more
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A tale of five fricatives: Consonantal contrast in heritage speakers of Mandarin [PDF]
, 2008 This study investigated the production of five Mandarin and English sibilant fricatives by heritage speakers of Mandarin in comparison to native speakers and late learners.
Chang, C. B. +3 more
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Context Awareness and Human–Robot Interaction Optimization for Museum Intelligent Guide Robot
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.This study presents a context‐aware human–robot interaction framework designed for intelligent museum guide robots. The system features a three‐layer architecture—perception, understanding, and behavior execution—that enables adaptive and meaningful interactions with museum visitors.
Anna Zou, Yue Meng, Shijing Tong
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Neighborhood social environments and mental health among youth and adults in public housing
American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Neighborhoods influence health in part through social processes. However, little is known about how multiple neighborhood social processes co‐occur, or about within (vs. between) neighborhood variation in social processes and health. This study asked how residents of a large public housing development describe their neighborhood and used ...
Jane Leer +3 more
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Islands and non-islands in native and heritage Korean
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 To a large extent, island phenomena are cross-linguistically invariable, but English and Korean present some striking differences in this domain. English has wh-movement and Korean does not, and while both languages show sensitivity to wh-islands, only ...
Boyoung eKim, Grant eGoodall
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An overview of the question-response system in American English conversation [PDF]
, 2010 This article, part of a 10 language comparative project on question–response sequences, discusses these sequences in American English conversation.
Stivers, T.
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Substance use, specifically opioid and methamphetamine use, is of increasing concern among American Indian (AI) populations in the Great Plains. This community‐driven participatory study investigated the impacts of substance use and community‐defined needs in treating addiction.
Brynn Luger +8 more
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