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Within-Speaker Perception and Production of Two Marginal Contrasts in Illinois English
Frontiers in Communication, 2022 The notion of marginal contrasts and other gradient relations challenges the classification of phones as either contrastive phonemes or allophones of the same phoneme.
Jennifer Zhang, JOSÉ Ignacio Hualde
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Frontiers in OncologyEarly diagnosis of splenic marginal zone lymphoma (SMZL) is difficult because of its insidious symptoms and slow progression. Combining conventional ultrasound with contrast-enhanced ultrasound can enable to differentiate between benign and malignant ...
Xu Zhang +5 more
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Marginal contrast in loanword phonology: Production and perception
Laboratory Phonology, 2022 Though Dutch is usually described as lacking a voicing contrast at the velar place of articulation, due to intense language contact and heavy lexical borrowing, a contrast between /k/ and /g/ has recently been emerging.
Alexander Martin +3 more
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Expressive Sibilant Retraction in North Norwegian: morpheme or ‘spoken gesture’?
Glossa, 2020 North Norwegian has a contrast between /s/ and /ʂ/ that is neutralized in word-initial position before a consonant, and an optional process of Expressive Sibilant Retraction (ESR), which changes /s/ to [ʂ] in precisely the environment where the contrast ...
Patrik Bye
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Assessment of marginal gaps and image quality of crowns made of two different restorative materials: An in vitro study using CBCT images [PDF]
Journal of Dental Research, Dental Clinics, Dental Prospects, 2022 Background. The present study assessed the quality of images and the presence of marginal gaps on cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images of teeth restored with all-ceramic and metal-ceramic crowns and compared the gap sizes observed on CBCT images ...
Paulo Victor Teixeira Doriguêtto +4 more
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Communications Earth & Environment, 2023 Forest cover significantly affects the global carbon cycle, biodiversity, and human welfare, but is seriously threatened by human activities. Here we found that anthropogenic forces did not necessarily lead to forest cover decline in the marginal ...
Qian Hao +3 more
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Association of Functional Impairments and Co-Morbid Conditions with Driving Performance among Cognitively Normal Older Adults. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 To examine the relationship between key functional impairments, co-morbid conditions and driving performance in a sample of cognitively normal older adults.Prospective observational study.The Knight Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Washington ...
David B Carr +7 more
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Biomaterial Investigations in Dentistry, 2021 Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of polymerization with either a monowave (MW) or a polywave (PW) light-curing unit (LCU) on the degree of conversion (DC) and marginal adaptation following thermomechanical aging of an ormocer bulk-fill resin ...
Sheila Celia Mondragón Contreras +4 more
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Phonetic Distinctiveness vs. Lexical Contrastiveness in Non-Robust Phonemic Contrasts
Laboratory Phonology, 2016 It is known that the mid vowel contrasts of Standard Italian distinguish few minimal pairs, may be lexically variable, and show some degree of phonological conditioning in certain varieties.
D. Robert Ladd, Margaret Renwick
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Contemporary Clinical Dentistry, 2022 Context: There is limited evidence on the outcome of single-piece implant-prosthetic complex after immediate nonfunctional loading in varied bone densities.
Vizaikumar Vasudha Nelluri +2 more
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