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Investigating Linguistic Prestige in Scotland: An Acoustic Study of Accommodation between Speakers of Two Varieties of Scottish Standard English

open access: yesLifespans and Styles, 2016
This paper investigates the attachment of overt and covert prestige to different varieties of Scottish Standard English (SSE), namely, Scots-SSE and Anglo-SSE. SSE itself encompasses wide linguistic variation and is often described as an accent continuum:
Abigail Salvesen
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Code-Switching in the University Level Students of Bangladesh: An Empirical Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The motto of this research article is to present how Bangladeshi University students use the mixture of both English and Bengali language as their spoken language.
Amin, Md Ruhul
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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
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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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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

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

Language Style as Identity Construction: A Footing and Framing Approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Despite the prevalence of conceptualizations of style shifting as a reactive phenomenon, conditioned by contextual factors such as formality and audience, style shifting increasingly has come to be viewed as a proactive phenomenon which speakers freely ...
Kiesling, Scott F   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

Spatial attention shifting and phonological processing in adults with dyslexia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
According to Hari and Renvall’s (2001) sluggish attentional shifting (SAS) hypothesis people with dyslexia have a central deficit in attention shifting.
Abbott, I, Dunn, AK, Larkin, RF
core  

A Comparative Study of Cerebral Oxygenation During Exercise in Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis Patients

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Cognitive impairment and exercise intolerance are common in dialysis patients. Cerebral perfusion and oxygenation play a major role in both cognitive function and exercise execution; HD session per se aggravates cerebral ischemia in this population. This study aimed to compare cerebral oxygenation and perfusion at rest and in mild
Marieta P. Theodorakopoulou   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

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