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English address terms in Australian, British and North American English on Twitter/X

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyses address terms on Twitter/X across three English‐speaking regions: Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Using a random sample, we examine the frequency and regional distribution of address forms, including @‐mentions, vocatives, titles, kinship terms and greetings.
Martin Schweinberger, Amir Sheikhan
wiley   +1 more source

Accent and Appearance in Pre‐Service English Teacher Identity: Embodied Language Ideologies in the Political Economy of Language Education in Türkiye

open access: yesTESOL Journal, Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how two pre‐service English teachers in Türkiye navigate the racialized (whiteness‐Europeanness‐indexed) and marketized legitimacy regimes of the private English language teaching sector. Drawing on a language teacher identity lens and a political economy account of accent commodification, we analyze the contrasting ...
Onur Özkaynak, Peter Sayer
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating grammatical complexity in Gulf Arabic speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI)

open access: yes, 2010
This is the first investigation of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) in Gulf-Arabic (GA) speaking children. The thesis consists of two main sections, in the first one, I discuss the definitions of SLI and the various theories put forward to account for ...
Shaalan, S.
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Examining the Serial Advantage in Fluent and Dysfluent Readers

open access: yesDyslexia, Volume 32, Issue 3, August 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Postalveolar fricatives in Slavic languages as retroflexes

open access: yes, 2002
The present study poses the question on what phonetic and phonological grounds postalveolar fricatives in Polish can be analyzed as retroflex and whether postalveolar fricatives in other Slavic languages are retroflex as well.
Hamann, Silke
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Beyond Spelling: Oral and Written Expository Discourse Skills in Adolescents With Dyslexia

open access: yesDyslexia, Volume 32, Issue 3, August 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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