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Requests in Indian and Sri Lankan English
World Englishes, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 523-543, September 2023., 2023 Abstract Despite notable exceptions, research on requests in world Englishes has so far largely involved role plays, questionnaires and discourse completion tasks. Moreover, research on requests in South Asian varieties of English is rather scarce. Therefore, the present study employs a multifactorial approach towards requests in Indian and Sri Lankan ...
Julia Degenhardt
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Structured variation in child heritage speakers' grammars
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 16, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Research on heritage language development in children can profit greatly by incorporating insights from analyses of structured variation, which is defined as the interchange of linguistic forms where the choice to use one form over the other is probabilistically conditioned by linguistic and social factors.
Naomi Shin
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Intra- and interspeaker repetitiveness in Chengdu Mandarin locative variation
Language Variation and Change, 2023 In producing linguistic variation, language users display a tendency to reuse the same variant. This paper compares the empirical properties of different types of repetitiveness in a single case study: locative variation in Chengdu Mandarin.
Aini Li, Meredith Tamminga, Hai Hu
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The Modern Language Journal, Volume 106, Issue 4, Page 694-725, Winter 2022., 2022 Graphical abstract: Abstract This data‐driven study framed in the interactionist approach investigates the influence of social graph topology and peer interaction dynamics among foreign exchange students enrolled in an intensive German language course on second language acquisition (SLA) outcomes.
MICHAŁ B. PARADOWSKI +3 more
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Speech Signal and Facial Image Processing for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Assessment. [PDF]
Comput Math Methods Med, 2015 Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common sleep disorder characterized by recurring breathing pauses during sleep caused by a blockage of the upper airway (UA). OSA is generally diagnosed through a costly procedure requiring an overnight stay of the patient at the hospital.
Espinoza-Cuadros F +5 more
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Visibly invisible: The study of middle class African American English
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 16, Issue 11, November 2022., 2022 Abstract Middle class African American English (AAE) has remained largely invisible to the sociolinguistic lens despite the fact that over 50 years of research has made it one of the most examined varieties of American English. This gap in the sociolinguistic literature is largely reflective of a strategic effort on the part of linguists to dismantle ...
Tracey L. Weldon
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Investigación de la individualidad del locutor en el alemán estándar de Suecia en cuatro regiones dialectales alemánicas: cantidad consonántica, cualidad vocálica y variables temporales [PDF]
, 2021 While German-speaking Switzerland manifests a considerable amount of dialectal diversity, until the present day the phonetic interrelation of Alemannic (ALM) dialects and spoken Swiss Standard German (SSG) has not been studied with an acoustic phonetic ...
Zihlmann, Urban
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Re-examining the /eː-ɛː/ merger in Finland-Swedish: Regional and stylistic variation
Language Variation and Change, 2022 This article examines regional and stylistic variation in the merger of front vowels /eː/ and /ɛː/ in Finland-Swedish. The study investigates the merger by comparing formant data from 141 speakers from four Swedish-speaking regions in Finland ...
Janine A. E. Strandberg +2 more
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“I didn’t fink dat was funny” [PDF]
, 2021 This paper examines the effect of middle and older age on Michael Caine’s realisation of the English dental fricatives. The results show convergence to prestige forms during middle age.
Brigg, Jamie
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 2020 We address the question whether speakers activate different grammars when they encounter linguistic input from different registers, here written standardised language and spoken dialect.
Björn Lundquist +2 more
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