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Linguistic phenomena in the speech from the South of Goias: conditioning factors
Entrepalavras: Revista de Linguística do Departamento de Letras Vernáculas da Universidade Federal do Ceará, 2016 Noting the current linguistic portrait of sulgoiana region, it is clear that three phenomena have shown a considerable number of occurrences, diphthongization, monophthongization and deletion of occlusive / d /.
Elisama Borges LINO +3 more
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The Journal of American Culture, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 19-29, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the use of promotional interviews (“promos”) in American professional wrestling of the 1980s. I argue that promos introduced a vocal modality into a form of sports entertainment that, as Roland Barthes ([1957] 1972) showed in Mythologies, had always been dominated by visual spectacle. I then undertake a focused linguistic
Jens Kjeldgaard‐Christiansen
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An acoustic study of Nigerian English vowels produced by hausa speakers / Maryam Ibrahim Ata [PDF]
, 2016 This study aims at examining the Hausa speakers‘ production of English monophthong vowels from the acoustic point of view. The study focuses on native Hausa speakers of Northern Nigeria.
Maryam, Ibrahim Ata
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Journal of Educational Measurement, Volume 63, Issue 1, Spring 2026.Abstract This article addresses bias in Spoken Language Systems (SLS) that involve both Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) and reports experiments to improve the performance of SLS for automated language and literacy‐related assessments with students who are under served in the U.S. educational system.
Alison L. Bailey +5 more
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The formants of monophthong vowels in Standard Southern British English pronunciation
, 1997 The formants of the eleven monophthong vowels of Standard Southern British (SSB) pronunciation of English were measured for five male and five female BBC broadcasters whose speech was included in the MARSEC database.
Deterding, David, David Deterding
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Nigerian English research: Developments and directions
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 182-198, March 2026.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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Monotongação e ensino: quando a variação linguística chega à escrita
Entrepalavras: Revista de Linguística do Departamento de Letras Vernáculas da Universidade Federal do Ceará, 2016 This paper discusses the mode how is manifesting the process of Monophthongization in textual writing production of children who complete the cycle of childhood, name assigned to the first three years of schooling for literacy. It too describes, based on
José Humberto dos Santos Santana +2 more
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 6-24, February 2026.Abstract The so‐called Liber Iesus, a Latin prayer book commissioned for the young Massimiliano Sforza by his father Ludovico il Moro in the 1490s, features a splendid miniature depicting a meeting between the child count and Emperor Maximilian I. It is accompanied by a brief dialogue in German with an interlinear version in Italian on the topic of the
Michael Berger
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Perubahan Fonetik pada Kata Serapan Bahasa Arab ke dalam Bahasa Jawa dalam Bahasa Harian
Jurnal Iqra': Kajian Ilmu Pendidikan, 2017 The data that have been taken by the researchers in this study is the phonetic changes of Arabic word absorption in the Java language. While the object in this study is general, that is all the words that are prevalent in everyday life.
Kunhaniah Mabruroh
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Contact and Language Change: Using the Present to Explain the Past1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 409-427, November 2025.Abstract Although we may know the outcome of language changes that could have resulted from language contact in the past, we are unlikely to know how and why these changes occurred unless we also know about the individual speakers who came into contact and the nature of their interactions—information that all too often is impossible to uncover.
Jenny Cheshire
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