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Mandatory Audits of Private Companies
International Journal of Auditing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine mandatory audits using Spanish private companies to generate insight into (1) how audit thresholds vary in tightness and impact, (2) which audit thresholds are crossed to cause audit commencement and cessation, (3) whether firms take actions to avoid audits and (4) whether audits provide economic benefits.
Darren Henderson +2 more
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Selective admissions at universities in the United Kingdom aim to ensure a baseline language competence, yet, despite persistent achievement disparities across linguistic backgrounds, systematic comparisons of linguistic skills underpinning academic success remain rare.
Justyna Mackiewicz, Danijela Trenkic
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On case loss and svarabhakti vowels: the sociolinguistic typology and geolinguistics of simplification in North Germanic [PDF]
, 2019 Work in sociolinguistic typology and creole studies has established the theory that intensive language contact involving second language acquisition by adults tends to lead to grammatical simplification.
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The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It has been suggested that informing language learners about the original, literal meaning of idioms helps them to remember these expressions, but the empirical evidence is limited. A new study was conducted with three groups of learners of English (53 Chinese students at a university in Canada, 56 students at a university in China, and 77 ...
Xiaofei Wang +3 more
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Lexical specification of tone in North Germanic [PDF]
, 2005 Accent 1 is very much accepted in the literature as the default tonal marker in Scandinavian languages. Consequently, stems and affixes are almost always specified for accent 2.
Wetterlin, Allison +2 more
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Gendered Harmony and Unsung Collections: Two Debussy Rabbit Holes
Music Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This review article on Mark McFarland's The Musical Relationship between Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky (2024) offers a critical reading of this recent text and treats its content as a springboard for the exploration of two issues untapped in existing musicological discourse.
Rajan Lal
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While electoral support in deeply divided societies is expected to follow segmental lines, parties often attract substantial backing from outside their core constituencies. This article examines why voters in Belgium's Brussels‐Capital Region—a consociational system designed to enable the peaceful cohabitation of the French and Dutch language ...
Benjamin Blanckaert +2 more
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Fra arbeidsfellesskap til et mangfoldig læringsfellesskap
NOA, 2023 Artikkelen presenterer en analyse av fellesskap i Generell del av læreplanen fra 1997 (L97) og i Overordnet del i gjeldende læreplanverk (LK20). I ulike offentlige dokumenter anmodes det stadig om å bygge og ivareta et inkluderende mangfoldig fellesskap ...
Margarita Olnova, Torild Marie Olsen
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Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2020 Russian Binary Meters.
Kiril Taranovsky, Lawrence E. Feinberg
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Speaking for Dionysus: Empathy and choral advocacy in Aristotle and Nietzsche
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract This essay argues for an abiding connection between empathy and advocacy by revealing their unrecognized parallels in Aristotle and Nietzsche. The argument makes three new claims. First, I identify an ancient form of sharing emotions, unnamed in but fundamental to Aristotle's Rhetoric, that I call “empathy by analogy.” Next, I show that the ...
Ellwood Wiggins
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