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Collective grief, liminality, and redressive action in Black fans' embodied engagement with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Marvel's 2022 blockbuster film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was marked by the death of lead actor Chadwick Boseman in 2020, resulting in the cinematic death of his character T'Challa. For US Black audiences, the imagined nation of Wakanda served as more than entertainment, but a diasporic “home” at a time of deepening anti‐Blackness and ...
Marissa Smith Morgan
wiley   +1 more source

Dschang syllable structure [PDF]

, 1999
The syllable structure of Dschang is interesting for a variety of reasons. Most notable is the aspiration which can appear on most consonant types, including voiced stops. I shall argue that aspiration is best viewed as moraic, contributing to the weight
Bird, Steven
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Enhancing brain plasticity: Functional near-infrared spectroscopy evidence for computerized working memory training in healthy adults

Brain Research Bulletin
Background: Understanding the neural mechanisms underlying cognitive enhancement through training is a central goal in neuroscience. Although computerized working memory training (WMT) has shown promise, its effects on brain plasticity, particularly the ...
Yuntao Gao, Peng Fang, Wanying Xing, Lingwei Zeng, Hui Wang, Xia Zhu, Xiuchao Wang   +6 more
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Variation in the perception of an L2 contrast : a combined phonetic and phonological account [PDF]

, 2009
The present study argues that variation across listeners in the perception of a non-native contrast is due to two factors: the listener-specic weighting of auditory dimensions and the listener-specic construction of new segmental representations.
Hamann, Silke
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Orthography-induced Transfer in L2 Phonological Acquisition of Spanish [PDF]

, 2012
Does exposure to orthographic input promote L1- based phonological transfer, leading to non-target- like productions in English-speaking learners of Spanish? Do condition of learning and production and grapheme-to-phoneme (in)consistency modulate the rate of orthography-induced transfer?
openaire  

L2 English interference in Chinese learners of L3 Portuguese: a corpus-based analysis of transfer-induced errors

Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education
This study investigates English-mediated cross-linguistic influence in Chinese learners of Portuguese as a foreign language. Using a corpus of forty written compositions across CEFR levels A1–B2, each text was manually annotated for four interference ...
Yun Chen
doaj   +1 more source

Fragments of a larger whole: Retrieval cues constrain observed neural correlates of memory encoding [PDF]

, 2007
Laying down a new memory involves activity in a number of brain regions. Here, it is shown that the particular regions associated with successful encoding depend on the way in which memory is probed.
Otten, LJ
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Interaction in bilingual Cantonese-Putonghua phonological acquisition [PDF]

, 2011
This study investigated the existence and mechanism of interaction in bilingual phonological acquisition of two tonal languages (Cantonese and Putonghua).
Cheung, Yuen-lam, 張苑琳
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Tone matters for Cantonese–English bilingual children’s English word reading development: A unified model of phonological transfer

Memory & Cognition, 2017
X. Tong, Xinjie He, S. H. Deacon
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Użycie języka angielskiego przez polskich uczniów podczas kursu języka francuskiego [PDF]

, 2014
Most studies concerning interference focus on the role of the native language (L1) in second language (L2) acquisition or production. However, an analysis of this aspect [interference] reveals that learners tend to use other languages that have ...
Duda, Joanna
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