Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 2019 Recent decades have seen a growing interest in “sound studies”, a field of study that addresses the role of the auditory in culture and society.
Samuel Llano, Tom Whittaker
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Experts in Government: What for? Ambiguities in Public Opinion Towards Technocracy
Politics and Governance, 2020 Technocratic governments and similar systems that give more voice to experts in the decision-making process are one of the potential alternatives to traditional representative party government.
Ernesto Ganuza, Joan Font
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Perceptual adjustment to time-compressed Speech: a cross-linguistic study [PDF]
, 1998 revious research has shown that, when hearers listen to artificially speeded speech, their performance improves over the course of 10-15 sentences, as if their perceptual system was "adapting" to these fast rates of speech.
Christophe, Anne +4 more
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Cross-Linguistic Orthographic Effects in Late Spanish/English Bilinguals
Languages, 2017 Through the use of the visual world paradigm and eye tracking, we investigate how orthographic–phonological mappings in bilinguals promote interference during spoken language comprehension.
Christopher A. Dean +1 more
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Questionnaire-based pronunciation studies: Italian, Spanish and polish students’ views on their English pronunciation [PDF]
, 2012 Rather than casting new light on teaching pronunciation, the outcome of this study is consistent with the findings of other research on foreign students’ choice of preferred pronunciation model, which is undeniably native rather than foreign ...
Nowacka Marta
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“Alma, si ciega vas tras tus antojos”: Going Blindly through Seventeenth-Century Literature
Humanities, 2023 Faced with the exaltation of sight as a perfect divine creation, so evident in the Uso de los antojos (1623) by Daza de Valdés, and faced with the satirical–burlesque tone of popular literature, dogmatic theology considered it inappropriate to praise a ...
Cipriano López Lorenzo
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Demófilo, Folklore and Contemporary Spanish Anthropology. Readings of Antonio Machado y Álvarez (1846–1893) [PDF]
, 2017 Antonio Machado y Álvarez (1846–1893), also known as Demófilo, was a pioneering collector and interpreter of folkloristic material from Andalusia and Spain.
Pfeilstetter, Richard
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Homophobic slurs and public apologies: the discursive struggle over fag/maricón in public discourse [PDF]
, 2012 A handful of recent incidents hints at an ideological struggle over the use of the English word fag(got) and the Spanish word maricón in public discourse. This article examines the discursive and ideological struggle over the terms through the comparison
Cashman, Holly R.
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La política británica de venta de armas a España durante el franquismo, 1953-1973
Historia contemporánea, 2011 La naturaleza del régimen y la cuestión de Gibraltar impidieron una normalización plena de las relaciones hispano-británicas durante el franquismo. A pesar de que ambos países mostraron el máximo interés en dejar sus relaciones económicas y comerciales ...
Carolina Labarta Rodríguez-Maribona
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Monitoring the impact of desert dust outbreaks for air quality for health studies [PDF]
, 2019 We review the major features of desert dust outbreaks that are relevant to the assessment of dust impacts upon human health. Our ultimate goal is to provide scientific guidance for the acquisition of relevant population exposure information for ...
Alastuey, A. +11 more
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