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Comparative Analysis of Chinese and Indonesian Vowel Systems
Humanus: Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu-ilmu Humaniora, 2020 In Chinese and Indonesian languages, a syllable is composed of consonants and vowels. Many researchers have focused on studying consonants and paid less attention to vowels.
Haryono Candra, Yusup Gumilar Sukma
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Bengali and Dutch: A Phonological Contrastive Analysis of the front Monophthongs
Research in LanguageThis paper investigates the monophthongs of Bengali and Dutch, analyzing the similarities and differences in the phonetic characteristics between the two languages, particularly focusing on front monophthongs.
Mohammed Shahedul Haque +1 more
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study presents a dialect identification task in which 191 listeners drew on a digital map around the area(s) they thought 99 speakers were from and provided evaluative responses based on speech excerpts. This study is the first to demonstrate the importance of uniting five strands of investigation in dialect identification tasks: (1 ...
Amanda Cole
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LingBaW, 2018 Ten 3- to 5-year old children (5M, 5F) who were diagnosed as children with articulatory phonological disorders (CWAPD) and attending a therapy program were recruited to participate in a ‘repeat-after-her’ experiment.
Man-ni Chu, Jia-ling Syu
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Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 565-596, June 2026.Abstract The current study examined how children apply their phonological knowledge to recognize translation equivalents in a foreign language. Target words for recognition were either phonologically similar (cognate) or dissimilar (noncognate) to words they already knew in their first language.
Katie Von Holzen, Rochelle S. Newman
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Australian English Monophthong Change across 50 Years: Static versus Dynamic Measures
LanguagesMost analyses of monophthong change have historically relied on static acoustic measures. It is unclear the extent to which dynamic measures can shed greater light on monophthong change than can already be captured using such static approaches.
Felicity Cox +2 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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Ladz in the Hood: Features of Pasifika English in Drill Rappers from Western Sydney
LanguagesDespite well-established Pasifika communities in Australia, there has been no examination of the English spoken by members of these communities in the sociolinguistic literature.
Joshua Penney, Anita Szakay
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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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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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