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Moral Communities in a Race Status Negotiation: A Dorm Room Urination Case
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.In 2022, at a South African university, a white student was filmed urinating on the belongings of a black student. Although race was invoked as an a priori account for this incident, we demonstrate how race is made visible and relevant by participants in the interaction through an attempted, yet resisted, status degradation ceremony.
Catherine L. Tam, Daniella Rafaely
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Intelligibility measurements in speech disorders: a critical review of the literature [PDF]
, 2008 BACKGROUND: the reduction in speech intelligibility is considered one of the main characteristics of individuals with speech disorders, and is an important issue for clinical and research investigation.
Barreto, Simone Dos Santos +1 more
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Categorizational Asymmetries in Context: Producing and Resisting Policeable Scenes
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This article examines categorizational asymmetries observable in the attempted production and negotiation of a “policeable” scene. The case described in the article—an encounter between a police officer and a black male student treated as “out of place”—demonstrates how members accomplish, negotiate, and resist categorial “statuses” and associated ...
Robin James Smith
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Speech intelligibility in rooms [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1982 This paper reviews developments in the science of speech intelligibility in rooms, and discusses the need for further work. Over the last 60 years, knowledge on this subject area of auditorium acoustics has been ascertained by observation and experiment, critically tested, systematized, and brought under a set of general principles.
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Evaluating speech intelligibility enhancement for HMM-based synthetic speech in noise [PDF]
, 2012 It is possible to increase the intelligibility of speech in noise by enhancing the clean speech signal. In this paper we demonstrate the effects of modifying the spectral envelope of synthetic speech according to the environmental noise. To achieve this,
King, Simon +2 more
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Angry Place Claims and the Deceptive Female Body
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.In this article, we explore bodily challenges women can experience when making angry place claims in social interactions based on interviews with 47 women across two generations and Candace Clark's concepts of social place claims and micro‐hierarchy. Our empirical analysis explores situations where women experience that their bodies negatively affect ...
Morten Kyed, Betül Özkaya
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Global Englishes language teaching (GELT) promotes, among other things, positive attitudes and maximized understanding to communicate with speakers with a variety of accents. However, research on GELT‐informed listening training is rare, and none has addressed both attitudes and understanding of diverse accents.
Hyeseung Jeong +3 more
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Interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit for non-native listeners of english [PDF]
, 2012 Màster de Lingüística Aplicada i Adquisició de Llengües en Contextos Multilingües, Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya, Universitat de Barcelona, Any: 2012, Supervisor: Dr. Joan Carles Mora BonillaThere are different factors that influence speech
Ludwig, Anja
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The benefit of head orientation to speech intelligibility in noise.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2016 Spatial release from masking is traditionally measured with speech in front. The effect of head-orientation with respect to the speech direction has rarely been studied.
Jacques A Grange, J. Culling
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The Effect of Plugging the Ears on the Intelligibility of Speech in Noise [PDF]
, 1946 Karl D. Kryter
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