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THE HEMODYNAMIC RESPONSE TO ACOUSTICALLY MODIFIED SYLLABLES IN PREMATURE AND FULL TERM NEWBORN INFANTS ACQUIRED BY NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY

open access: yesActa Colombiana de Psicología
This research assesses, in newborns, the hemodynamic response to acoustically modified syllables (pronounced in a prolonged manner), versus the response to unmodified syllables (pronounced at a normal rate).
MARÍA ELIZABETH MÓNICA CARLIER-TORRES   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of hanyu pinyin on pronunciation in learners of Chinese as a foreign language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper provides evidence that the hanyu pinyin representation of the phonology of Chinese affects the production of Chinese phonology in instructed learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language.
Bassetti, Benedetta
core  

CEO Narcissism and Linguistic Complexity in Earnings Conference Calls

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Existing research shows that firms leverage linguistic complexity in corporate communication to obscure negative information and shape audience perception. In this study, we examine the impact of CEO narcissism on the strategic use of linguistic complexity during earnings conference calls.
Frederic Lammers, Ulrich Pape
wiley   +1 more source

Battle in the Clouds

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This narrative experiment brings together scenes from my family histories in western Pennsylvania coal country, alongside ongoing visits to learn about rising health issues in the region today. Increasing numbers of residents express concerns about chronic problems such as young cancers, and many people worry about potential exposures coming ...
Amy Moran‐Thomas
wiley   +1 more source

Mother Tongue Influence and Global English: Creating “Neutral” Elites in Delhi's Business Processing Outsourcing Industry

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mother tongue influence (MTI) is a widely used yet often underdefined term in India's business process outsourcing (BPO) industry. “Mother tongue” is an unavoidable, yet fraught political category linked to sovereignty, education, region, and ethnicity.
Kristina Nielsen
wiley   +1 more source

The Syllable according to Aristotle

open access: yesHistoire Epistémologie Langage, 2017
Les commentateurs modernes ont critiqué la définition de la syllabe selon Aristote («un son dépourvu de signification, composé d’une muette et d’une voyelle » ) au motif qu’elle ne tiendrait pas compte des syllabes constituées d’une unique voyelle. Cependant, de telles syllabes ne pouvaient être que «longues par nature » , (/ C -/), quantitativement ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Syllable-level Neural Language Model for Agglutinative Language

open access: yes, 2017
Language models for agglutinative languages have always been hindered in past due to myriad of agglutinations possible to any given word through various affixes.
Kim, Jihie   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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