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Is a Day out of Hawick a Day Wasted? A Study of Bidialectalism in Young Hawick Females

open access: yesLifespans and Styles, 2016
This study investigates young female speakers from Hawick in southern Scotland. The main focus is to identify whether bidialectal-like shifts occur in the young female speakers’ use of local dialect features, depending on the dialect of their ...
Alice Rawsthorne
doaj   +1 more source

Style-shifting in the hedge fund industry [PDF]

open access: yes
Style-shifting in the hedge fund ...
Xiaolin Ye (9775487)
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Test-Time Style Shifting: Handling Arbitrary Styles in Domain Generalization

open access: yesCoRR, 2023
In domain generalization (DG), the target domain is unknown when the model is being trained, and the trained model should successfully work on an arbitrary (and possibly unseen) target domain during inference. This is a difficult problem, and despite active studies in recent years, it remains a great challenge.
Jungwuk Park   +3 more
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The Young and the Old: (t) Release in Elderspeak

open access: yesLifespans and Styles, 2017
Elderspeak refers to a speech style used when talking to the elderly. The aim of this study was to find out whether a higher rate of standard phonetic variants of phonemes is a feature of elderspeak.
James Michaelov
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“That’s What It Felt Like, ‘You’re Pathetic’”: Creaky voice, Affective Stance, and Authentication in the Speech of Lady Gaga

open access: yesLifespans and Styles, 2017
This paper contributes to research on the social meaning of creaky voice in American English by offering an intraspeaker analysis of the speech of Lady Gaga, an American pop star.
Lewis Esposito
doaj   +1 more source

Style Shifting in First-encounter Conversations between Japanese Speakers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This study examines style shift between formal and informal styles in first- encounter conversations between Japanese native speakers and demonstrates how the speakers shifted the speech style in the context.
Shinkuma, Kenichi
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Black Country English in the Spotlight: A Stylistic Analysis of Variable Contrast between Phonemes in an Urban Regiolect of British English

open access: yesLifespans and Styles, 2016
When examining the COT /CAUGHT merger in central Pennsylvania, Labov (1994) uncovered a stylistic phenomenon, known as the “ Bill Peters Effect” , whereby speakers heavily differentiate between /ɑ/ and /ɔː/  in spontaneous speech, but converge the two ...
Joel Merry
doaj   +1 more source

Code-Switching as Strategically Employed in Political Discourse

open access: yesLifespans and Styles, 2016
There is extensive scholarship in the field of sociolinguistics on mediated political discourse as strategically employed to gain support in the run-up to and during elections.
Yova Kementchedjhieva
doaj   +1 more source

Comparative Evaluation of Hemodiafiltration, Hemoperfusion, and Standard Hemodialysis on Efficacy, Inflammatory Control, Dialysis Adequacy, and Safety in End‐Stage Renal Disease: A Prospective Observational Study

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Chronic micro‐inflammation in patients with end‐stage renal disease (ESRD) is a significant driver of cardiovascular complications and diminished quality of life. While standard hemodialysis (SHD) effectively manages small‐molecule clearance, its ability to remove medium‐to‐large uremic toxins—the primary catalysts of systemic ...
Hongwei Zuo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shifting diets: Toward a sustainable food future [PDF]

open access: yes
A global convergence toward Western-style diets that are high in calories, protein, and animal-based foods poses challenges for food security and sustainability.
Lipinski, Brian   +5 more
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