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Studies in English Language and EducationIntegrating content and language instruction has gained popularity worldwide because it allows students to improve their content knowledge while concurrently honing their language skills.
Budsaba Kanoksilpatham +1 more
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Empirical Musicology Review, 2014 This study investigated several factors presumed to influence the intelligibility of song lyrics. Twenty-seven participants listened to recordings of musical passages sung in English; each passage consisted of a brief musical phrase sung by a solo voice.
Randolph Johnson +2 more
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Eyes Wide Open: Pupillary Response to a Foreign Accent Varying in Intelligibility
Frontiers in Communication, 2019 This study examines listening effort, as indexed by pupil dilation, needed for processing foreign-accented speech that varies in intelligibility. Previous research has shown that the magnitude of pupil dilation is influenced by various factors, crucially
Vincent Porretta, Benjamin V. Tucker
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are unlikely to be achieved by 2030, prompting debate about what should follow. Beyond revision, there is a need to critically examine what values and assumptions have shaped how the SDGs are conceptualised and operationalised.
Gin Dupont +7 more
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Journal of Otorhinolaryngology, Hearing and Balance MedicineSpeech intelligibility is a concern for public health, especially in non-ideal listening conditions where listeners often listen to the target speech in the presence of background noise. With advances in technology, synthetic speech has been increasingly
Yizhen Ma, Yan Tang
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Is there an interlanguage speech credibility benefit?
Topics in Linguistics, 2016 Some (though not all) previous studies have documented the interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit (ISIB), i.e. the greater intelligibility of non-native (relative to native) speech to non-native listeners as compared to native listeners.
Podlipský Václav Jonáš +2 more
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Strategic positioning and accelerating regulatory clearance for new ventures
Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary How do new ventures strategically position their products to accelerate regulatory clearance? We investigate this question in the medical device industry, where regulatory clearance is a prerequisite for market entry. We examine 239 new firms' 510(k) device clearances by the FDA between 2001 and 2019.
Emily Cox Pahnke +2 more
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Information Dynamics and Learning in Complex Adaptive Systems: Toward a Transdisciplinary Framework
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article develops a framework for understanding learning and adaptation in complex adaptive systems. Drawing from neuroscience, systems theory, information theory and quantum field theory, it examines how information processing, plasticity and systemic coherence emerge from distributed, nonlinear and feedback‐driven interactions. It argues
Anderson de Souza Sant'Anna
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The Trajectory of an Agreement: Tracing Objectivated Knowledge Across a Series of Mundane Encounters
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This article adds to the sociological study of time and temporality in everyday life by building on recent longitudinal developments within conversation analysis. It investigates members' methods to bring about change within their shared (life) world. It examines how, as part of an extended project of action, one agreement made early on is continually ...
Sarah Hitzler, Jonas Kramer
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