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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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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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Against Old English ‘short’ diphthongs
Crossroads, 2017 Since the earliest grammars, Old English has been analysed as having a length contrast in diphthongs, containing both regular, bimoraic ones, side by side with cross-linguistically unique monomoraic ones.
Helena Sobol
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Higher‐pitched voices are perceived as financially trustworthy
British Journal of Psychology, Volume 116, Issue 4, Page 1009-1027, November 2025.Abstract Previous research is mixed as to whether listeners perceive higher‐ or lower‐pitched voices as more financially trustworthy. These mixed results may be owing to variation in the degree of risk implied in the scenarios used to measure perceptions of financial trustworthiness. I tested whether the degree of risk in the type of trust game used to
Jillian J. M. O'Connor
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 719-728, May 2025.ABSTRACT Chinese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) frequently experience difficulties in articulating English rising diphthongs, thereby hindering their speech efficacy in communication. This research employed an empirical approach to examine the accuracy rate exhibited by Chinese EFL learners while producing five English rising ...
PAN Pan, WU Xiaojing, WANG Jiaying
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Acoustic Analysis of Monophthongs in Monguor Language
Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Conference on Modern Management, Education Technology, and Social Science (MMETSS 2017), 2017 exaly +2 more sources
Acoustic measurements and intelligibility of English vowels produced by Thai speakers
Studies in English Language and EducationEffective English communication across different languages and cultures has become increasingly important in a globalised world. To gain a deeper understanding of the segmental features of Thai speakers of English, this study aims to investigate the ...
Kamonnate Iadkert +2 more
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Baltistica, 2011 ACOUSTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SYLLABLE INTONATIONS IN THE MODERN LATVIAN LANGUAGESummaryThe article aims to describe the acoustic features of the accented monophthongs and also to discover the differences between the circumflex (Latv.
Robertas Kudirka
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Developmental Science, Volume 28, Issue 2, March 2025.ABSTRACT The classical view is that perceptual attunement to the native language, which emerges by 6–10 months, developmentally precedes phonological feature abstraction abilities. That assumption is challenged by findings from adults adopted into a new language environment at 3–5 months that imply they had already formed phonological feature ...
Eylem Altuntas +4 more
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Tonal Phonotactics in Southern Min
Studia Linguistica, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 431-455, December 2024.Abstract This paper is the first to explore tonal phonotactics in the world's natural languages. Zhangzhou Southern Min is theoretically assumed to have 7320 possible syllables but more than 71% of them are not empirically attested. Each lexical tone is logically possible to generate 915 syllables; however, the attested number only ranges from 98 ...
Yishan Huang
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