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Journal of Oral Rehabilitation, EarlyView.In community‐dwelling adults aged ≥ 65 years, swallowing difficulty and dry mouth were significantly associated with poor sleep quality. The combined presence of oral frailty and physical frailty further increased the risk of poor sleep quality. ABSTRACT Background Oral frailty and physical frailty are linked to adverse health outcomes in older adults,
Pei‐Chen Lin +7 more
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The Beginning of an Important Change in Polish Phonotactics
Studi SlavisticiA change has been observed in the pronunciation of sonorants in Polish in positions where their occurrence does not conform with the sonority principle.
Irena Sawicka, Tatiana Zinowjewa
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Prosodic description: An introduction for fieldworkers [PDF]
, 2008 This article provides an introductory tutorial on prosodic features such as tone and accent for researchers working on little-known languages. It specifically addresses the needs of non-specialists and thus does not presuppose knowledge of the phonetics ...
Himmelmann, N. P., Ladd, D. R.
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how Taiwanese members of parliament (MPs) deploy self‐referring expressions—specifically, the formal first‐person singular běnxí—to negotiate their institutional standing and project political power. By operationalizing access to objective power using the margin of victory (MoV) as one possible proxy, the research shows ...
Tsung‐Lun Alan Wan
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An analysis of pitch and duration in material used to test L2 processing of words [PDF]
, 2006 The material reported on in this paper is part of a set of experiments in which the role of Information Structure on L2 processing of words is tested. Pitch and duration of 4 sets of experimental material in German and English are measured and analyzed ...
Sennema, Anke +2 more
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How Flexible Are Grammars Past Puberty? The Case of Relative Clauses in Turkish‐American Returnees
Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract How flexible are grammars after puberty? To answer this, we test returnees: heritage speakers (HS) born in an immigration context who returned to their homeland in later years. If returnees are targetlike, then language is still malleable after puberty; in contrast, if maturational effects are in play, postpuberty returnees will show ...
Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Silvina Montrul
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Influences of environmental and biological factors on song complexity in songbirds : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Ecology at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2017 Content removed due to copyright reasons: Hill, S. D., Pawley, M. D. M., Anderson, M. G., & Weihong, J. (2017). Higher song complexity and intruder pressure at dawn in a vocally complex songbird. Emu - Austral Ornithology, 118(2), 147-157.
Hill, Samuel David
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract The study examined the mediation model of socioeconomic status (SES) and executive function (EF) on reading abilities in Chinese (as first language, L1) and English (as second language, L2) in 260 native Cantonese‐speaking students (146 boys) from Hong Kong local primary schools with the mean age at 111.3 months (range = 98–132 months).
Dan Lin +5 more
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Parallels in the sequential organization of birdsong and human speech. [PDF]
, 2019 Human speech possesses a rich hierarchical structure that allows for meaning to be altered by words spaced far apart in time. Conversely, the sequential structure of nonhuman communication is thought to follow non-hierarchical Markovian dynamics ...
Gentner, Timothy Q +3 more
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This study examined second language vocabulary processing and learning in reading only (RO) versus reading while listening (RWL). 119 English learners read or read‐while‐listening to a story embedded with 25 pseudowords, 10 times each, and had their eye movements tracked.
Jonathan Malone +3 more
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