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Nigerian English research: Developments and directions
Abstract This article describes the progress made by scholars over a period of more than five decades in the field of Nigerian English studies. It will thus serve as a useful tool for those researching in this field; and apparently there has been no such attempt to date to review the research landscape of Nigerian English in order to show its key ...
David Jowitt, Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
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Psycholinguistic norms for the dominant and secondary names of 700 LinguaPix color photographs in Mandarin Chinese. [PDF]
Chang YN+7 more
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Consonant clusters in Nigerian English
Abstract This study explores consonant cluster production and its influencing factors in Nigerian English using a corpus‐based approach. More than 4000 onset and coda consonant clusters produced in the broadcast talks, broadcast discussions and broadcast news from ICE‐Nigeria by a total of 44 speakers were analysed with reference to cluster position ...
Ulrike Gut, Philipp Meer
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The roles of L1 transfer, L2 exposure, and morphological salience in bilingual children's L2 English morphological development. [PDF]
Wang X, McMillen S, Shi Y.
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The double modal construction in English world wide
Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
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Beating stress: Evidence for recalibration of word stress perception. [PDF]
Bujok R, Peeters D, Meyer AS, Bosker HR.
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ABSTRACT Background Duodenal invasion is a risk factor for early recurrent biliary obstruction (RBO) due to the increased risk of duodenobiliary reflux. Transpapillary biliary drainage using anti‐reflux metal stents (ARMS) and endoscopic ultrasound‐guided hepaticogastrostomy (EUS‐HGS) are two different strategies for this condition.
Tsuyoshi Takeda+10 more
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Abstract Background Pancreatic pseudocyst (PP), following acute or chronic pancreatitis, may become symptomatic or persist beyond 6–8 weeks, requiring drainage. Endoscopic ultrasonography‐guided drainage (EUS‐D) is the preferred method, using double pigtail plastic stents (DPPS) or self‐expandable metallic stents (SEMS), such as lumen‐apposing metal ...
André Orsini Ardengh+10 more
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Individual differences in associative/semantic priming: Spreading of activation in semantic memory and epistemically unwarranted beliefs. [PDF]
Huete-Pérez D+3 more
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