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Are auditors insulated to positive client news? Evidence from audit fees and going‐concern opinions
Accounting &Finance, Volume 65, Issue 3, Page 2339-2386, September 2025.Abstract This paper investigates if and how auditors consider positive news, related to their clients, when making audit decisions. Using a large sample of US listed companies, we find that auditors charge lower audit fees and are less likely to issue going‐concern opinions when there are a higher number of positive news items related to their clients.
Ting‐Chiao Huang +3 more
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Harmonic word order constraints are not created equal: the final-over-final constraint as an epiphenomenon [PDF]
, 2010 The Final-over-Final Constraint (FOFC, Holmberg 2000, Biberauer et al 2007, 2008) is a descriptive generalisation stating that a head-initial phrase cannot be dominated by a head-final phrase.
Philip, J
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Behavior Modification, 2015 Our primary purpose in this study was to examine the structure of a response class when new members are acquired through mand training. To do this, we replaced existing mands (e.g., reaching) in three children with autism with two new functionally equivalent mands.
Drasgow, Erik +4 more
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Awareness of Grammatical Variability in Language Contact: The Case of Mano and Kpelle in Guinea
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 268-284, September 2025.ABSTRACT This paper contributes to research on the awareness of grammatical variability through a study of variation in reflexivity marking in Mano under the influence of Kpelle, both indigenous languages of Guinea. The speakers of these languages are found to be sensitive to contact‐induced grammatical variation in reflexivity, which manifests via ...
Maria Khachaturyan +2 more
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Propositions pour l’orthographe du bamanankan
Mandenkan, 2014 The authors advance solutions to certain problems of the Bamanankan which had remained hitherto unresolved, such as spelling of the syllables of the type “nasal consonant + vowel i or u”. They suggest to distinguish phonemes gw and sh.
Mahamadou Konta, Valentin Vydrin
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Interview with Ambrosio Mande [PDF]
, 1978 A Filipino who sided with the management during the 1924 strike explains how he co-existed with the strikers.interpreter, sugar plantation worker; Filipino; maleInterview conducted in Visayan (translation ...
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Les moyens anaphoriques du récit traditionnel : le cas du mwan
Mandenkan, 2016 The article discusses the strategies of resolving a referential conflict in a traditional narrative in Mwan (< South Mande < Mande < Niger-Congo), as well as the means used for this purpose.
Elena Perekhvalskaya
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Could Google Translate Shakespeare? [PDF]
, 2018 Translation technology has made very rapid advances in recent years, and we now expect our devices to provide us with serviceable translations of many kinds of text, at the touch of a screen. Literary texts are still viewed as an exception to this trend,
Large, Duncan
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On the Absence of Certain Island Effects in Mende
LanguagesThe distinction between weak and strong islands has been extensively explored in the literature from both a descriptive and analytical perspective. In this paper, I document and analyze island constructions and constraints in Mende, an understudied Mande
Jason D. Smith
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The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Evidence from Savings Rates, Health Behaviors, and Retirement Assets [PDF]
Languages differ widely in the ways they encode time. I test the hypothesis that languages that grammatically associate the future and the present, foster future-oriented behavior. This prediction arises naturally when well-documented effects of language
M. Keith Chen
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