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Documentary Exploration of the Evolution of Spanish Sibilants [PDF]
, 2020 Spanish underwent significant phonological alteration in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modernity. Perhaps the most important group of changes concerns the sibilants (s-like sounds), which descend from a system of four original sibilants (s, z, ʃ, ʒ) and
Giudice, Andrés
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Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper explores the evolving relationship between decarbonization strategies, environmental performance within ESG frameworks, and the economic performance of multinational companies in the context of increasing environmental and geopolitical uncertainty.
Maurizio Pompella, Lorenzo Costantino
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Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article advances the understanding of employee performance by unraveling the relationship between high‐performance human resource management practices (HPHRMP) and employee performance. Data were obtained from 510 bank employees across 25 banks operating in Jordan. A sequential mediation model was tested using structural equation modeling
Adolfo Carballo‐Penela +3 more
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Reduction of pronunciation disorders of sibilants for pre-school children
, 2021 Diplomdarba nosaukums: Svelpeņu un šņāceņu izrunas traucējumu mazināšana pirmsskolas vecuma bērniem. Darba autore: Jeļena Baļuha Darba zinātniskā vadītāja: Doc. Dr. Paed. Ilze Šūmane Pētījuma mērķis: Teorētiski izzināt un praktiski pārbaudīt vingrinājumu
Baļuha, Jeļena
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Weather, EarlyView.The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the origins of the words we use. In this paper, we will shed light on these origins, including the Pontic–Caspian steppe, the British Empire and, of course, a TV show.
Kieran M. R. Hunt
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Coarticulation with alveopalatal sibilants in Mandarin and Polish: Phonetics or phonology? [PDF]
, 2020 Previous work has shown that vowels following alveopalatal sibilants typically exhibit raised second formant (F2) values, typically attributed to coarticulatory vowel fronting (e.g.
Hauser, Ivy
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Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract The focus on fostering innovative work behaviour among public servants in Vietnam reflects a strategic effort to enhance public service delivery and citizen satisfaction. However, empirical insights into how to effectively motivate such behaviours remain scarce.
Lam Dinh Thang +3 more
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An acoustic study of plain and palatalized sibilants in Ocotepec Mixe [PDF]
, 2009 In Ocotepec Mixe, the stem-initial sibilants /s tÉs ß/ undergo a palatalization process when the prefix /j/ is added. Descriptions of other Mixe languages report that this palatalization is realized either as addition of a glide (in the case of the ...
Hamann, Silke, Avelino, Heriberto
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The Red–Green Electoral Threat to the Labour Party
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract For the first time, Labour faces credible electoral threats from minor parties to its left. The Greens and the newly formed Your Party offer left‐wing and Muslim voters disillusioned with Labour viable electoral alternatives and parliamentary representation. This article considers how great the threat is to Labour. It uses a model of how minor
Thomas Quinn +2 more
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Perception of voicing in English fricatives by Spanish listeners
Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2017 Speech contrasts which are not functionally distinctive in the mother tongue are difficult to differentiate perceptually for non-native listeners. A two-fold experiment was carried out in order to investigate the L2 perception by 26 Spanish listeners of ...
Silvia Carmen Barreiro Bilbao
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