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Production of neutral tone in Mandarin by heritage, native, and second language speakers [PDF]

, 2019
This study examined the properties of neutral tone (T0) in Mandarin as produced by three groups: native speakers raised in a Mandarin-speaking environment (L1ers), second language learners raised in an English-speaking environment (L2ers), and heritage ...
Chang, Charles, Yao, Yao
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Excipient Emulsion–Based Delivery Systems for Enhancing Carotenoid Bioavailability: Advances in Formulation and Gastrointestinal Fate

AgriFood: Journal of Agricultural Products for Food, EarlyView.
Excipient emulsion systems improve carotenoid solubilization, protect against degradation, and enhance gastrointestinal absorption through optimized formulation and digestion behavior. ABSTRACT Carotenoids are bioactive compounds that contribute to human health through antioxidant, provitamin A, and disease‐preventive effects.
Tugce Ceyhan, Elifsu Nemli, Esra Capanoglu, Merve Tomas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Family Dispute Resolution in Australia: The Under‐Servicing of Indigenous, Migrant and Refugee Families Experiencing Family Violence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
wiley   +1 more source

Profiles of citrus orchard nutrition and fruit quality in Hunan Province, China

International Journal of Fruit Science, 2022
Understanding of orchard nutrition status can facilitate the proper management of orchards for higher fruit yield and quality. From 2011 to 2019, the nutrition status of orchards in Hunan Province, a major citrus-producing area in china, were assessed. A
Yuewen Chen, Feifei Li, Yuechang Wu, Tie Zhou, Yuanyuan Chang, Xuefei Lian, Tao Yin, Li Ye, Yunsong Li, Xiaopeng Lu   +9 more
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Cross-Lingual Speaker Discrimination Using Natural and Synthetic Speech [PDF]

, 2011
This paper describes speaker discrimination experiments in which native English listeners were presented with either natural speech stimuli in English and Mandarin, synthetic speech stimuli in English and Mandarin, or natural Mandarin speech and ...
Liang, Hui, Wester, Mirjam
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Vocabulary of Autistic Preschool Children With Limited Language: Alignment With Early Word Inventories

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is a critical need to understand the early vocabulary of young children with autism who have limited language, defined in this study as producing fewer than 20 different spontaneous and functional spoken or augmented words, to better inform educational targets and vocabulary selection for spoken as well as augmentative and alternative ...
Eunji Kong, Yitong Jiang, Marina Crain, Wenjing Bao, Lynne Levato, Wendy Shih, Connie Kasari, Stephanie Shire   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Talker identification is not improved by lexical access in the absence of familiar phonology [PDF]

, 2017
Listeners identify talkers more accurately when they are familiar with both the sounds and words of the language being spoken. It is unknown whether lexical information alone can facilitate talker identification in the absence of familiar phonology.
McLaughlin, Deirdre
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Autistic Children With Speech Onset Delay Show Reversed Bias in Spectral Versus Temporal Auditory Processing

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A recent “hierarchical” reinterpretation of the neurological basis of autism suggests that in autism with early language delay, perceptual processing may be favored over the integration of transmodal information. This model is largely based on neuroimaging findings relating to visual processing, but predicts a corresponding reorganization in ...
Luodi Yu, Shuyu Xie, Li Wang, Laurent Mottron   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Species of Diaporthe on Camellia and Citrus in the Azores Islands

Phytopathologia Mediterranea, 2018
Species of Diaporthe are important plant pathogens, saprobes, and endophytes on a wide range of plant hosts. Species such as D. citri are well-known on Citrus, as agents of pre- or post-harvest infections, causing dieback, melanose and stem-end rot on ...
Vladimiro GUARNACCIA, Pedro CROUS
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LEXTALE_CH: A quick, character-based proficiency test for Mandarin Chinese [PDF]

, 2018
Research in second language acquisition suggests that objective performance-based assessments may provide more reliable and valid measures of second language proficiency than subjective self-ratings. To measure proficiency in English as a second language,
Chan, I. Lei, Chang, Charles B.
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