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German glide formation functionally viewed [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Glide formation, a process whereby an underlying high front vowel is realized as a palatal glide, is shown to occur only in unstressed prevocalic position in German, and to be blocked by specific surface restrictions such as *ji and *“j.
Hamann, Silke
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Comparative assessment of artificial intelligence chatbots' performance in responding to healthcare professionals' and caregivers' questions about Dravet syndrome

open access: yesEpilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Artificial intelligence chatbots have been a game changer in healthcare, providing immediate, round‐the‐clock assistance. However, their accuracy across specific medical domains remains under‐evaluated. Dravet syndrome remains one of the most challenging epileptic encephalopathies, with new data continuously emerging in the ...
Joana Jesus‐Ribeiro   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pronunciation and Spelling Accuracy in English Words with Initial and Final Consonant Clusters by Arabic-Speaking EFL Learners

open access: yesLanguages
Arabic phonotactics significantly differ from English phonotactics in that they usually follow a framework that forbids the presence of consonant clusters in syllabic onsets.
Abdel Rahman Mitib Altakhaineh   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

La syllabe et la découverte du sens dans l’énonciation : phonologie et langues en contact en FLE

open access: yesMultilinguales, 2013
How can deviant utterances produce a significant speech? A learners’ corpus answers the question. Indeed, some metrical syllabic distribution seems to operate effectively in communication act, in spite of the atypical syntactic constructions, multiple ...
Maria‑Luisa Fernandez‑Echevarria
doaj   +1 more source

The Relationship Between English and Polish Rhythm Measures in Polish Learners of English [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper investigates native and non-native speech rhythm in the speech of Polish learners of English at an intermediate/upper-intermediate level. More specifically, it attempts to explore the relationship between rhythm measures scores in L1 Polish ...
Gralińska-Brawata, Anna
core   +2 more sources

Making care audible: Musical gifts and affective reciprocity in the clinic

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In clinical settings, music therapy is frequently received as a gift—a voluntary offering that invites but does not demand participation. Drawing on ethnographic research with music therapists and patients in Canadian and American hospitals, this article examines how clinical care is co‐constituted through practices of giving, receiving, and ...
Meredith Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Syllable retrieval precedes sub-syllabic encoding in Cantonese spoken word production. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
Two experiments were conducted to investigate the time course of syllabic and sub-syllabic processing in Cantonese spoken word production by using the picture-word interference task.
Andus Wing-Kuen Wong   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Effect of IP Constituent Position and Foot Complexity on Timing in Polish Learner's English Pronunciation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
A comparison of native and Polish learners' performance shows similar durations of stressed and pitch accented syllables. The unstressed syllables and syllable clusters, on the other hand, are significantly longer in non-native speech, and the ...
Porzuczek, Andrzej
core   +2 more sources

The Non‐Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Volunteers have long played a significant role in hospice care. Much of the care volunteers provide consists of weekly hour‐long in‐home visits. Home‐visiting hospice volunteers are not professionals, nor are they strangers or intimates. Hospice volunteers will not typically face moral dilemmas, nor be called upon to make dramatic decisions ...
Michael B. Gill
wiley   +1 more source

Near visual function measured with a novel tablet application in patients with astigmatism

open access: yesClinical and Experimental Optometry, EarlyView., 2020
Clinical relevance While the clinical focus of performance metrics is traditionally based on visual acuity, research from the field of visual impairment has demonstrated that metrics such as reading speed and critical print size correlate much more strongly with subjective patient reported outcomes and assessed ability in real‐world tasks.
Ananya Datta   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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