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Exceptionality in Spanish Onset Clusters
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2020 Spanish complex onsets have been traditionally described as consisting of a stop (/p, t, k, b, d, g/) or the fricative /f/ plus a liquid. Given that all Spanish varieties have other fricatives (/x, s/), the obstruents that can form part of an onset ...
Katerina A. Tetzloff
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A Guide to Build (ING) GLMM Trees in Canadian Maritime English: Part 2, Linguistic Factors
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 2, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT This second paper in a two‐part methodological guide demonstrates how Generalised Linear Mixed Model (GLMM) tree analysis can be used to explore linguistic conditioning in sociolinguistic variation. Building on Part 1, which introduced the dataset and illustrated how GLMM trees reveal social patterning in (ING) variation, Part 2 focuses on the
Matt Hunt Gardner
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A transitional Arabic dialect of the northern Omani interior [PDF]
, 2011 A major classificatory division of the Arabic vernaculars spoken throughout much of the Arab world is that of the socially-based Sedentary (S) versus Bedouin (B) division.
Eades, D
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Rhythm and Vowel Quality in Accents of English [PDF]
, 2010 In a sample of 27 speakers of Scottish Standard English two notoriously variable consonantal features are investigated: the contrast of /m/ and /w/ and non-prevocalic /r/, the latter both in terms of its presence or absence and the phonetic form it takes,
D. Abercrombie +14 more
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The Modern Language Journal, Volume 110, Issue 1, Page 159-187, Spring 2026.Abstract Our research investigated how L2 and L1 reading, L1 low‐level skills and working memory are related to ratings and the linguistic characteristics (productivity, cohesion, lexical sophistication and diversity, syntactic complexity, and accuracy) of argumentative and narrative texts. The research was conducted in Hungary with 95 secondary school
Judit Kormos, Csilla Bartha
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Language-universal constraints on the segmentation of English [PDF]
, 2000 Two word-spotting experiments are reported that examine whether the Possible-Word Constraint (PWC) [1] is a language-specific or language-universal strategy for the segmentation of continuous speech.
Butterfield, S. +4 more
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Non-native contrasts in Tongan loans [PDF]
, 2019 We present three case studies of marginal contrasts in Tongan loans from English, working with data from three speakers. Although Tongan lacks contrasts in stress or in CC vs.
Alderete +48 more
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Consonant clusters in Nigerian English
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 19-38, March 2026.Abstract This study explores consonant cluster production and its influencing factors in Nigerian English using a corpus‐based approach. More than 4000 onset and coda consonant clusters produced in the broadcast talks, broadcast discussions and broadcast news from ICE‐Nigeria by a total of 44 speakers were analysed with reference to cluster position ...
Ulrike Gut, Philipp Meer
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Social Development, Volume 35, Issue 1, February 2026.ABSTRACT Research characterises the child as an active learner who attends more to and selectively retains information they actively elicit better than information they passively receive. At the same time, children learn best from knowledgeable others who tailor information to children's learning progress.
Ricarda Bothe +6 more
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Listening skills instruction: practical tips for processing aural input [PDF]
, 2019 Two listening challenges faced by English L2 learners are (1) successfully identifying words in continuous speech and (2) understanding a speaker’s intended meaning. Listening is a skill L2 learners report wanting to improve, yet teaching practices often
Reed, Marnie
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