The Impact of English on Other Languages and Linguistic Justice
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the implications of English's role as a global lingua franca for other languages, with a particular focus on the transformations these languages undergo due to English influence. Such changes are most evident in the lexical domain, where they are typically examined under the framework of lexical borrowing or Anglicisms ...
Sabine Fiedler
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The Indian English Complaint Tradition: ‘Old Chestnuts’ and New Perspectives
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT English usage in India has been the target of a linguistic complaint tradition ‘which has taken the form of complaint about so‐called mis‐use of language and linguistic decline’ since the 19th century. The Indian English (IndE) complaint tradition in the 21st century has shifted from colonial to postcolonial in that IndE usage is now targeted ...
Claudia Lange, Sven Leuckert
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Music learning motivation and students' musical creative performance: the sequential mediating roles of creative self-efficacy and learning engagement. [PDF]
Front PsycholDing D.
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Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 6, November 2026.ABSTRACT Early functional connectivity within the brain's reward circuitry may provide insight into the developmental origins of individual differences in pleasure and motivation. This study examined resting‐state functional connectivity between two key reward‐related regions, the nucleus accumbens (NAc) and ventral tegmental area (VTA), in 94 one ...
Megan M. Hare +3 more
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Emotion and Engagement Across the Idol Spectrum: Comparing Virtual and Human Idols
Psychology &Marketing, Volume 43, Issue 10, Page 2661-2679, October 2026.ABSTRACT The increasing adoption of virtual idols in entertainment platforms raises critical questions about how viewers respond to their emotional performances compared to human idols. Despite their growing presence, little is known about whether and how emotional expressivity differs across performer modalities and content formats, or how these ...
Lin Kim +4 more
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A study on the emotional accuracy of generative AI music from the perspective of the "Emotion Wheel" theory. [PDF]
Front PsycholQi G, Song D, Yu X.
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Earthquake Seismogram Denoising Across Time, Time‐Frequency, and Hybrid Domain Approaches
Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation, Volume 3, Issue 5, October 2026.Abstract Deep learning earthquake signal denoisers commonly operate directly on waveform data or on time‐frequency representations, yet the impact of this design choice has not been systematically assessed under controlled conditions. Here we design and benchmark four comparable deep learning architectures to assess the effect of input data ...
Nikolaj L. Dahmen
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Development and validation of a standardized emotional music database based on multidimensional affective ratings. [PDF]
Front PsycholWu R, Huang Y, Jin X.
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Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, Volume 26, Issue 4, October 2026.Abstract This qualitative study directly engaged 46 young people (YP) with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), aged 14–25, who were in education, to discover their experiences during the COVID‐19 pandemic (2020–2022). Unlike past research relying on parents or professionals, this study captured their voices directly regarding daily life,
Jacqueline Paterson +3 more
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The influence of age and gender on self-assessment of piano competencies. [PDF]
Front PsycholChen C, Lin W.
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