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Pitch range and vowel duration in the speech of children with Williams syndrome [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper reports the pitch range and vowel duration data from a group of children with Williams syndrome (WS) in comparison with a group of typically developing children matched for chronological age (CA) and a group matched for receptive language
Moreland, Matthew Luke   +3 more
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‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vozes em embate na mídia de informação e produção da objetividade: polêmicas em torno da precarização do trabalho na escola Voices in struggle in information media discourses and the production of objectivity: on precarization of work in school

open access: yesDELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2011
Neste artigo, procedemos à análise de modos de produção de sentidos sobre o trabalho dos profissionais de Educação do ensino médio na mídia impressa, a partir de uma perspectiva enunciativa.
Bruno Deusdará, Décio Rocha
doaj   +1 more source

Temporal and spatial variability in speakers with Parkinson's Disease and Friedreich's Ataxia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Speech variability in groups of speakers with Parkinson's disease (PD) and with Friedreich's ataxia was compared with healthy controls. Speakers repeated the same phrase 20 times at one of two rates (fast or habitual).
Anderson, Andrew   +2 more
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Defining Roles in Pediatric Palliative Care: Perspectives From Oncology and Palliative Care Teams

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Early integration of pediatric palliative care (PPC) is associated with improved symptom management, quality of life, and healthcare utilization for children with cancer. Despite this, variation persists in how PPC is understood, operationalized, and integrated within pediatric oncology programs. In particular, ambiguity surrounding
Leeat Granek   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Le théâtre des livres : bibliomanie et citations dans Les Provinciales de Pascal

open access: yesLes Dossiers du GRIHL
The theatre of books: bibliomania and quotations in Pascal’s Les Provinciales. The quotation is neither ornamental nor merely entertaining in Les Provinciales: above all, it is at the core of a new poetics of quotation, of formidable ingenuity ...
Pierre Lyraud
doaj   +1 more source

The Finnish logophoric pronoun hän: a quantitative approach

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2017
The paper examines the logophoric use of hän ‘he/she’ in contemporary Finnish conversation data. A logophoric pronoun is a device used in reported speech referring to the original speaker of a reported utterance.
Katri Priiki
doaj   +1 more source

Blinatumomab Utilization in Pediatric B‐Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Experience From the Mountain West

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Blinatumomab is a bispecific T‐cell engager approved for the treatment of pediatric B‐cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B‐ALL). Outpatient home infusion reduces hospitalization burden and optimizes resource utilization, but is logistically challenging.
Angela Parra del Riego   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Unsupervised Acquisition of a Lexicon from Continuous Speech [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
We present an unsupervised learning algorithm that acquires a natural-language lexicon from raw speech. The algorithm is based on the optimal encoding of symbol sequences in an MDL framework, and uses a hierarchical representation of language that ...
de Marcken, Carl
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How pervasive is preaspiration? Investigating sonorant devoicing in Sienese Italian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
We have recently found that voiceless geminates in Sienese Italian are frequently preaspirated, eg. /sette/ > [sehte] 'seven'. Within the few (mostly Scandinavian) languages that are reported to have preaspirated voiceless stops, a phonetically similar ...
Hajek, John, Stevens, Mary
core   +1 more source

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