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Mapping Language: Names, Speakers and Voices

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract In this conversational piece, we reflect on our experience of working with and on maps and map‐makers that have shaped linguistic conventions and ideas, suggesting geographers have much to contribute by engaging with such mapping. It illuminates how maps rendered the unpredictable geography of speakers and the naming of places as ...
Beth Williamson, Philip Jagessar
wiley   +1 more source

Spectral Characteristics of Schwa in Czech Accented English [PDF]

, 2013
The English central mid lax vowel (i.e., schwa) often contributes considerably to the sound differences between native and non-native speech. Many foreign speakers of English fail to reduce certain underlying vowels to schwa, which, on the suprasegmental
Ashby, Ashby, Barry, Barry, Boersma, Boersma, Browman, Browman, Derwing, Derwing, Fry, Fry, Gobl, Gobl, Hammarberg, Hammarberg, Hanson, Hanson, Jan Volín, Keysar, Keysar, Lenka Weingartová, Lindblom, Lindblom, Nakatani, Nakatani, Radek Skarnitzl, Sluijter, Sluijter, Sundberg, Sundberg, Volín, Volín   +32 more
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Effects of prematurity and socio‐economic status on early life language exposure: A video coding study

British Journal of Developmental Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Preterm birth is associated with later language impairment and delay. Socio‐economic deprivation is linked to decreased language exposure in early childhood, but it is unknown how prematurity influences this relationship. This study investigated the effects of socio‐economic status and gestational age at birth on language exposure, in a sample
Sinéad O'Carroll, Bethan Dean, Yu Wei Chua, Victoria Ledsham, James P. Boardman, Sue Fletcher‐Watson   +5 more
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The effect of word-initial glottalization on word monitoring in Slovak speakers of English [PDF]

, 2012
The study investigates the impact of glottal elements before word-initial vowels on the speed of processing of the phrases taken from natural continuous speech.
Skarnitzl, Radek, Uhrinová, Mária, Volín, Jan   +2 more
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Differences in characteristics between naturalized threatened plants and other threatened plants

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Many non‐native plant species introduced by humans have become naturalized. At the same time many species are threatened in their native range. However, the number of plant species threatened in their native range that are naturalized elsewhere remains unknown.
Weihan Zhao, Trevor S. Fristoe, Amy J. S. Davis, Wayne Dawson, Franz Essl, Holger Kreft, Jan Pergl, Petr Pyšek, Patrick Weigelt, Marten Winter, Mark van Kleunen   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Case Series of Neuropsychological Outcome After Deep Brain Stimulation of the Ventral Capsule/Ventral Striatum for Refractory Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder

, 2021
Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface, EarlyView.
Tim A. M. Bouwens van der Vlis, Annelien A. Duits   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Focus realization in Albanian: The role of prosody and utterance position [PDF]

JASA Express Letters
This study investigates the realization of narrow and broad focus in Albanian, an understudied language. Production and perception data were analyzed for narrow and broad focus.
Enkeleida Kapia, Felicitas Kleber, Jonathan Harrington, Michele Gubian   +3 more
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Phonetic variability and grammatical knowledge: an articulatory study of Korean place assimilation. [PDF]

, 2008
The study reported here uses articulatory data to investigate Korean place assimilation of coronal stops followed by labial or velar stops, both within words and across words.
Ahn, Alexei Kochetov, Anttila, Blevins, Boersma, Browman, Byrd, Byrd, Chitoran, Chitoran, Chomsky, Ellis, Gafos, Hume, Kim, Kim-Renaud, Kochetov, Marianne Pouplier, Nolan, Nolan, Recasens, Rice, Scobbie, Scobbie, Solé, Son, Sproat, Tiede, Zsiga, Zsiga   +29 more
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The hole in the doughnut: Formalizing and testing a key model of degrowth

Contemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Degrowth scholars often claim that capitalism generates social and ecological imbalances, as captured by Kate Raworth's leading doughnut model. We formalize this model using social and environmental indices and measure imbalances using their coefficient of variation.
Ashruta Acharya, Vincent Geloso, Aleksander Psurek   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

BEA – A multifunctional Hungarian spoken language database [PDF]

, 2013
In diverse areas of linguistics, the demand for studying actual language use is on the increase. The aim of developing a phonetically-based multi-purpose database of Hungarian spontaneous speech, dubbed BEA2, is to accumulate a large amount of ...
Gósy, Mária
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