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Lifespans and Styles, 2017 This study examines style-shifting in the case of Paul Banks, lead singer of the indie rock band Interpol, who spent a substantial amount of time during his adolescence in Spain and Mexico and therefore has access to their corresponding dialects.
Mario Magued Mina, Jasmina Kerla
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Dative Microvariation in African Varieties of Portuguese
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2022 In this paper we compare dative ditransitive structures in nativized and nativizing urban varieties of Portuguese spoken in Angola, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe, using a corpus-based approach. It is shown that the expression
Inês Duarte +2 more
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Wearable Sensor‐Based Location‐Specific Occupancy Detection in Smart Environments
Mobile Information Systems, Volume 2018, Issue 1, 2018., 2018 Occupancy detection helps enable various emerging smart environment applications ranging from opportunistic HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air‐conditioning) control, effective meeting management, healthy social gathering, and public event planning and organization.
Md Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan +3 more
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Inter- vs. Intra-Speaker Variation in Mixed Heritage Syntax: A Statistical Analysis
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Based on the novel data pertaining to five syntactic phenomena (the position of the finite verb in embedded clauses, in sentences with a modal verb, negative concord, the position of focused light/heavy objects in main clauses with a complex tense and ...
Federica Cognola +2 more
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Journal of Healthcare Engineering, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017 A voice disorder database is an essential element in doing research on automatic voice disorder detection and classification. Ethnicity affects the voice characteristics of a person, and so it is necessary to develop a database by collecting the voice samples of the targeted ethnic group.
Tamer A. Mesallam +7 more
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Talkin’ Black and Sounding Gay: An Examination of the Construction of a Multiplex Identity via Intraspeaker Variation [PDF]
, 2020 Gay African-American men hold membership in at least three groups – Gay, Black, and Male – that are grounded in ideologies and which provide linguistic resources that are complex and potentially conflicting.
Cornelius, Brianna R.
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“Whey Aye My Good Sir”: Has Cheryl Fernandez-Versini’s Accent Moved from Tyneside English to RP?
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 This article analyses the speech of Cheryl Fernandez-Versini (nee Tweedy, formerly Cole), henceforth “Cheryl” , who experienced rapid geographical and socioeconomic mobility between 2002 and 2014.
Victoria Wallace
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Sixty Years of Speech: A Study of Language Change in Adulthood
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 Research on language change has been complicated and hindered by the problem of obtaining quality data. In many cases, the large volume of time required to collect recorded speech at different intervals, as necessary in lifespan studies, is prohibitive ...
Bei Qing Cham
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Languages, 2022 This study investigates speaker based variation in the use of word order and intonation to mark narrow and wide focus in Urdu. The identification of focus type and position, as well as the prosodic phrasing of declarative sentences produced in the target
Farhat Jabeen
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Regional variation in the pronunciation of /s/ in the Dutch language area [PDF]
, 2019 This paper reports on an explorative sociophonetic study of the phoneme /s/ in the Dutch language area. Our aim is to investigate the regional variation in the realisation of this phoneme, and to test experimentally the observation of Collins & Mees ...
Heeren, W.F.L. +6 more
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