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James Platt Junior's Contributions to Old English Grammar1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In 1883, Henry Sweet took issue with James Platt junior, a 21‐year‐old language enthusiast. At the time, Platt was England's brightest young prospect in Old English linguistic studies. Sweet recognised Platt's talent, but he became convinced that he was also a plagiarist and tried to have him expelled from the Philological Society.
Stephen Laker
wiley   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

A data-driven assessment of harmony in Quebec French [e] and [ε] [PDF]

open access: yesJASA Express Letters
This study is concerned with the aperture of the mid vowel /E/ in nonfinal syllables in Quebec French. The hypothesis tested is that in underived disyllabic words, the aperture of /E/ would be determined via harmony with the following vowel.
Josiane Riverin-Coutlée, Michele Gubian
doaj   +1 more source

Retroflexion and retraction revised [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Arguing against Bhat’s (1974) claim that retroflexion cannot be correlated with retraction, the present article illustrates that retroflexes are always retracted, though retraction is not claimed to be a sufficient criterion for retroflexion.
Hamann, Silke
core  

Sociolinguistic Conditioning of Phonetic Category Realisation in Non-Native Speech [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The realisation of phonetic categories reflects a complex relationship between individual phonetic parameters and both linguistic and extra-linguistic conditioning of language usage.
Waniek-Klimczak, Ewa
core   +2 more sources

Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
wiley   +1 more source

Koncepcja podręcznika z ćwiczeniami do fonetyki i fonologii języka niemieckiego / The concept of a text- and workbook for German phonetics and phonology [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistische Treffen in Wrocław
This paper attempts to present the concept of a text- and workbook for German phonetics and phonology intended in the first place for Polish students. The starting point for the considerations is – on the one hand – the reference to a phonetics survey ...
Miłosz Woźniak
doaj   +1 more source

The Relationship Between English and Polish Rhythm Measures in Polish Learners of English [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper investigates native and non-native speech rhythm in the speech of Polish learners of English at an intermediate/upper-intermediate level. More specifically, it attempts to explore the relationship between rhythm measures scores in L1 Polish ...
Gralińska-Brawata, Anna
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Investigating the Relationship Between Early Speech Milestones and Oral–Motor Development in Infants

open access: yesActa Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim This study aimed to determine whether infants' oromotor skills were related to the onset of babbling and their phonetic inventory at 6 months of age. Methods Parents of 50 6‐month‐old infants (41 full‐term, 9 preterm) completed the Child Oral and Motor Proficiency Scale (ChOMPS), a valid and reliable caregiver‐report measure of oromotor ...
K. M. Allison   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lookers and listeners on the autism spectrum: the roles of gaze duration and pitch height in inferring mental states

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication
Although mentalizing abilities in autistic adults without intelligence deficits are similar to those of control participants in tasks relying on verbal information, they are dissimilar in tasks relying on non-verbal information. The current study aims to
Juliane T. Zimmermann   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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