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American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 466-475, September 2025.ABSTRACT Mother tongue influence (MTI) is a widely used yet often underdefined term in India's business process outsourcing (BPO) industry. “Mother tongue” is an unavoidable, yet fraught political category linked to sovereignty, education, region, and ethnicity.
Kristina Nielsen
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Central, epenthetic, unmarked vowels and schwas : a brief outline of some essential differences [PDF]
Linguística, 2010 In this study, we examine the nature and content of some phonetic/phonological designations to refer to central vowels. Bearing in mind that epenthetic vowels and unmarked vowels are not always central vowels, we will argue in favour of a thorough ...
João Veloso
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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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Hydrological Processes, Volume 39, Issue 7, July 2025.We capture the snow cover variability in Berchtesgaden National Park (Bavaria, Germany) depending on topography, snow‐canopy processes, and differences between snow‐poor and snow‐rich winters by means of distributed simulations. Our results point out that snow cover duration and snow disappearance day are highly variable in time and space and that snow
Brage Storebakken +3 more
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Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 2010 This paper reports a study on the perception of English syllabic consonants vs. schwa in word fi nal position at discourse level. Our aim is to fi nd out whether gender and accent play a signifi cant role in the pereception of potential syllabic ...
Inmaculada de Jesús Arboleda Guirao +1 more
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Neutralizing gender in role nouns: investigating the effect of ə in written and oral Italian
Frontiers in CommunicationIn languages like Italian, all nouns have grammatical gender, which in most cases can be inferred from word endings. Nouns that refer to people may also convey information about the referent’s gender (i.e., semantic gender), as in the case of transparent
Martina Abbondanza +5 more
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Linguistica, 2005 It is a well-known fact that in English, syllabification of derived words differs according to the attaching affix, Chomsky and Halle (1968). In words such as hinder, meter, burgle the final sonorant of the roots /hindr/, /mitr/, /burgl/ is syllabic in ...
Tatjana Marvin
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Multi-Agent Simulation of Emergence of Schwa Deletion Pattern in Hindi [PDF]
Recently, there has been a revival of interest in multi-agent simulation techniques for exploring the nature of language change. However, a lack of appropriate validation of simulation experiments against real language data often calls into question the ...
Anupam Basu +2 more
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Wildlife Biology, Volume 2025, Issue 4, July 2025.Recreational activities have been shown to induce fear responses in carnivores, causing both spatial and temporal displacement that can have cascading effects on the wider ecological community. Cougars Puma concolor are one species that are particularly sensitive to human disturbances as they have been found to be impacted by various forms of ...
Emerald Arthurs +3 more
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Unsupervised Discovery of Phonological Categories through Supervised Learning of Morphological Rules
, 1996 We describe a case study in the application of {\em symbolic machine learning} techniques for the discovery of linguistic rules and categories. A supervised rule induction algorithm is used to learn to predict the correct diminutive suffix given the ...
Berck, Peter +2 more
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