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The Mixed Effects of Phonetic Input Variability on Relative Ease of L2 Learning: Evidence from English Learners’ Production of French and Spanish Stop-Rhotic Clusters

Languages, 2018
We examined the consequences of within-category phonetic variability in the input on non-native learners’ production accuracy. Following previous empirical research on the L2 acquisition of phonetics and the lexicon, we tested the hypothesis that ...
Laura Colantoni, Jeffrey Steele
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Pancreatic hormones and amino acid levels following liver transplantation [PDF]

, 1987
Glucose intolerance, hyperinsulinemia, peripheral insulin resistance and hyperglucagonemia are common in patients with advanced liver disease. These abnormalities in the plasma levels of the pancreatic hormones, insulin and glucagon have been thought to ...
Chisholm, Collins, Collins, Conn, Creutzfeldt, Dudley, Eriksson, Fath, Fischer, Hahn, Hamish, Johnston, Kam, Kenny, Limberg, Marchesini, Marchesini, Marchesini, Marchesini, Megysi, Morgan, Muller, Nielsen, Pearly, Reilly, Robertson, Schander, Sherwin, Sherwin, Soeters, Starzl, Starzl, Trinder   +32 more
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Testing sociolinguistic theory and methods in world Englishes

World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 26-42, March-June 2025.
Abstract This article assesses mainstream sociolinguistic theory and methods in the context of world Englishes. Despite its obvious applicability, sociolinguistic theory has not always been the primary analytic model for world Englishes. The multilingual and sometimes mobile circumstances of world Englishes contexts do not always fit the usual ...
Devyani Sharma
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Perception of ambiguous rhoticity in Glasgow

Journal of Phonetics, 2023
Relatively little research has been conducted on the effect of hearing an unfamiliar native English accent. This paper tests listeners with varying levels of familiarity with the Glaswegian linguistic environment, presenting them with naturalistic minimal pairs such as hut/hurt – produced by speakers raised in Glasgow – in two-alternative-forced-choice
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Postalveolar fricatives in Slavic languages as retroflexes [PDF]

, 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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World Englishes and sociolinguistic variation

World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 2-11, March-June 2025.
Abstract This article discusses the connections between world Englishes and sociolinguistic variation. It begins with an overview of the field of sociolinguistic variation, and also highlighting contemporary approaches to world Englishes, with specific reference to the sociolinguistic realities (in the Kachruvian sense) of Outer Circle contexts.
Werner Botha, Tobias Bernaisch
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Language and identity in the Windrush generation

World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 300-315, March-June 2025.
Abstract This paper examines how the Windrush generation uses phonological and morphosyntactic elements of Jamaican Creole (JamC), London Jamaican (LonJam) and standard British English (SBE) to do identity work in interviews broadcast as part of a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush.
Guyanne Wilson
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How differences in anatomy and physiology and other aetiology affect the way we label and describe speech in individuals with cleft lip and palate

International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 59, Issue 6, Page 2181-2196, November/December 2024.
Abstract Background Speech in individuals with cleft lip and/or palate (CLP) is a complex myriad of presenting symptoms. It is uniquely associated with the structural difference of velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI), together with a wide and heterogeneous range of other aetiologies which often co‐occur.
Valerie J Pereira, Debbie Sell
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What is in a name: Taxonomy of speech sound disorders from a cross‐linguistic perspective

International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 59, Issue 6, Page 2123-2130, November/December 2024.
Abstract Background In response to the call for papers under the theme “What is in a name” proposed by the Scientific Child Speech Committee of the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP), the current paper discusses taxonomy and its relation to speech sound disorders (SSD) from a cross‐linguistic perspective. Aims This
Kakia Petinou‐Loizou, Kerry Ttofari, Elma Filippou   +2 more
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Rhotics in general, but not trills in particular, are associated with roughness: Experimental evidence from Maltese

Glossa Psycholinguistics
Recent work on sound symbolism has established a relation between roughness and the alveolar trill (e.g., Ćwiek et al., 2024). The available evidence is, however, ambiguous as to whether the phonetic properties of an alveolar trill or the phonological ...
Holger Mitterer, Martha Arvanitidou, Julia Balzan, Daniela Borg, Ritienne Demanuele, Laura-Viviane Engels, Nadia Grixti, Patrycjusz Koczyk, Anna Thorsteinsdottir   +8 more
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