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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style
ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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Beyond the Adult Mind: A Developmental Framework for Predictive Processing in Infancy
Abstract Predictive Processing has been proposed as the single unifying computation underlying all of cognition, and proponents argue that all psychological phenomena can be explained as consequences of this principle. This theoretical framework has inspired many cognitive scientists and neuroscientists, but it currently has no developmental mechanism ...
Emma K. Ward +4 more
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The [ADJ + as] intensifier construction in Māori English/Aotearoa English
Abstract We introduce the Waikato Māori English Conversation (MEC) corpus, which consists of 43 dyadic conversations between 49 young adults who self‐recorded informal conversations with close friends, in their own homes, with no topic of conversation specified (83 hours of dialogue; nearly 800,000 words).
Andreea S. Calude, Hēmi Whaanga
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Dictionary of P. S. Pallas: Archaic and Innovative Features
Introduction. The paper examines and describes some archaic and innovative features identified in a word list of P. S. Pallas from the treatise titled ‘Comparative Dictionaries of All Languages and Dialects Collected by the Order of Her Imperial Majesty’
Inna B. Mandzhieva
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An acoustic study on monophthongs in Central Australian Aboriginal English
Abstract We present an acoustic analysis of monophthongal vowel production in Central Australian Aboriginal English (CAAE), providing one of the first systematic examinations of this variety spoken by English‐as‐a‐first‐language (L1) speakers in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, Australia.
Yizhou Wang +4 more
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The phonemic valve of dual phoneme
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Sound‐offset encoding is related to speech‐in‐noise perception at sentence level in older adults
Abstract figure legend Schematic summary of the study investigating sound‐onset and offset sensitivity in the brain of older adults. EEG responses to white‐noise bursts were recorded to examine neural encoding of sound onset and offset during passive listening and active task conditions.
Hasan Colak +6 more
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Examining the Serial Advantage in Fluent and Dysfluent Readers
ABSTRACT We examined how the relation between serial and discrete reading/naming rate reveals cognitive processes that underlie reading fluency success and failure. Our sample included 87 children scoring above the 35th percentile (fluent readers) and 36 scoring below the 16th percentile (dysfluent readers) on a word‐reading fluency test.
Sandra Romero +3 more
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Beyond Spelling: Oral and Written Expository Discourse Skills in Adolescents With Dyslexia
ABSTRACT Students with dyslexia may produce shorter written texts with poorer content and less complex language than peers, but it remains unclear whether such differences reflect increased writing effort associated with dyslexia or co‐occurring non‐phonological language difficulties.
Helena Oliv, Anna Eva Hallin
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ABSTRACT Dyslexia refers to difficulties in acquiring fluent reading in the absence of an intellectual deficit. In the current study, we addressed two controversial issues surrounding this disorder. Firstly, the hypothesis of an implicit learning impairment that could contribute to the development of dyslexia, and secondly, the need to distinguish ...
Joaquín M. M. Vaquero +3 more
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