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Slurred Speech: How the NLRB Tolerates Racism

Columbia Journal of Race and Law, 2018
Racist speech in union representation elections is widespread and conflicts with the protections of Title VII for diverse employees across different industries.
Michael H. LeRoy
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Anti-social media [PDF]

, 2014
To inform the discussion over free speech and hate speech, this study examines the way racial, religious and ethnic slurs are employed on Twitter. Executive summary: How to define the limits of free speech is a central debate in most modern democracies.
Noelle Rumball, Jeremy Reffin, Sarah Williamson, Jamie Bartlett   +3 more
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Voice and Speech in Atypical Parkinsonian Disorders

Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Background Motor speech disorders are early, common, and functionally limiting features of atypical parkinsonian disorders (APDs) such as progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), corticobasal syndrome (CBS), and multiple system atrophy (MSA). These impairments are underrecognized and undertreated in neurology clinics.
Federico Rodriguez‐Porcel, Farwa Ali, Michiko Bruno, Heather Davis Cuevas, Rohit Dhall, Kylie Dunne‐Platero, Lawrence I. Golbe, Ihtsham Haq, Nicole Herndon, Lawrence S. Honig, Kyurim Kang, Sarah Kremen, Guillaume Lamotte, Nikolaus R. McFarland, Michela Mir, Leila Montaser‐Kouhsari, Alexander Pantelyat, Joel Page, Hylan Pickett, Laura Purcell Verdun, Kelly Richardson, Jessica Shurer, Michelle Troche, Rene L. Utianski, Katya Villarreal‐Cavazos, Tuhin Virmani, Anne‐Marie Wills, as the Diagnosis and Treatment Working Group, CurePSP Center of Care (CoC) Network, Farwa Ali, Michiko Bruno, Timothy Chang, Rohit Dhall, Kimiko Domoto‐Reilly, Lawrence I. Golbe, Ihtsham Haq, Lawrence S. Honig, Sarah Kremen, Guillaume Lamotte, Zoltan Mari, Nikolaus R. McFarland, Leila Montaser‐Kouhsari, Alexander Pantelyat, Federico Rodriguez‐Porcel, Junaid Siddiqui, Jessica Shurer, Christopher Spears, Tuhin Virmani, Anne‐Marie Wills   +48 more
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How is the reclamation of slurs perceived in Italian?

Linguistik Online
This study presents a sociolinguistic survey that investigates how the reclamation of LGBT+ slurs is perceived in Italian. Reclamation refers to the practice of repurposing historically derogatory terms into expressions of identity, pride, solidarity ...
Andrea Marra, Chiara Ferrando, Lia Draetta, Bianca Cepollaro, Viviana Patti   +4 more
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Slurs and Pragmatic Competition [PDF]

Manuscrito
Differences in informativeness regarding truth-conditional and presuppositional content elicit scalar inferences. Many sentences carry not-at-issue, non-presupposed content, e.g. conventional implicatures.
NICOLÁS LO GUERCIO
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Busting the Ghost of Neutral Counterparts

Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy
Slurs have been standardly assumed to bear a very direct, very distinctive semantic relationship to what philosophers have called “neutral counterpart” terms.
Jennifer Foster
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Slurs: At-issueness and Semantic Normativity

Phenomenology and Mind, 2017
In the first part of the article, we present the main approaches to analyze slurs’ content and we investigate the interaction between an assertion containing a slur and a denial (‘It’s not true that P’ / P is false’) showing to what extent a “neutral ...
Simone Carrus
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The Social Life of Slurs [PDF]

, 2018
The words we call slurs are just plain vanilla descriptions like ‘cowboy’ and ‘coat hanger’. They don't semantically convey any disparagement of their referents, whether as content, conventional implicature, presupposition, “coloring” or mode of ...
Nunberg, Geoff
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Speech and Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson's Disease, Essential Tremor, and Dystonia: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis

Movement Disorders, EarlyView.
Abstract Deep brain stimulation (DBS) effectively treats motor symptoms in movement disorders but often compromises speech through incompletely defined mechanisms. We conducted a PROSPERO‐registered systematic review and meta‐analysis of publications through August 2024 (CRD42024527738).
Elina Tripoliti, Takashi Tsuboi, Michael T. Barbe, Mario Sousa, Julie Barkmeier‐Kraemer, Hannah Jergas, Gaia Arno, Nicole Buie, Mikayla Day, Petr Krýže, Jayson R. Nelson, Aaron E.L. Warren, Shervin Rahimpour, Jan Rusz, Paul Krack, Kristina Simonyan   +15 more
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Voice and Speech in Deep Brain Stimulation in Dystonia: A Retrospective Study, Systematic Review, and Meta‐Analysis

Movement Disorders, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Relatively little is known about voice and speech abnormalities and their changes after deep brain stimulation (DBS) in patients with dystonia. Objective The aim was to determine the incidence of speech abnormalities, including laryngeal dystonia, among patients with dystonia receiving DBS and to characterize their response to this ...
Ian O. Bledsoe, Nutan Sharma, Marta San Luciano, Jill L. Ostrem, Nicole E. Buie, Gaia Arno, Mikayla Day, Kristina Simonyan   +7 more
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