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Correlates of linguistic rhythm in the speech signal [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Spoken languages have been classified by linguists according to their rhythmic properties, and psycholinguists have relied on this classification to account for infants’ capacity to discriminate languages.
Mehler, Jacques   +2 more
core   +1 more source

On Shephard Groups with Large Triangles

open access: yes, 2009
Shephard groups are common extensions of Artin and Coxeter groups. They appear, for example, in algebraic study of manifolds. An infinite family of Shephard groups which are not Artin or Coxeter groups is considered.
Weiss, Uri
core   +2 more sources

Co‐opted Boards and the Obfuscation of Financial Reports

open access: yesAbacus, EarlyView.
This study investigates the relationship between board co‐option and the obfuscation of financial disclosures in a comprehensive sample of 9,620 10‐K filings by 1,076 US‐listed firms between 1996 and 2018. Our empirical results are consistent with our hypotheses that board co‐option partly explains the obfuscation of financial reports.
Abongeh A. Tunyi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prosodic constituents in the representation of consonantal sequences in Polish [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The aim of this paper is to show what role prosodic constituents, especially the foot and the prosodic word play in Polish phonology. The focus is placed on their function in the representation of extrasyllabic consonants in word-initial, word-medial ...
Rochoń, Marzena
core  

The Role of Health Literacy in Adults' Dental Service Utilisation: A Scoping Review

open access: yesCommunity Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives Health literacy refers to an individual's ability to understand health information, navigate healthcare systems, make informed decisions and adopt health‐promoting behaviours. The scoping review examined the available literature to explore adults' health literacy levels, health literacy measurements, and the role of health literacy ...
Xuanyun Lu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strengthening community‐based fisheries monitoring programs with Indigenous perspectives

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Community‐based monitoring (CBM) programs are increasingly recognized as essential for adaptive environmental stewardship. Yet, the CBM literature often highlights successful cases and privileges evaluations by external experts over those of community members themselves.
Kanwaljeet Dewan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Arabako herri izenen azentueraz / On the accentuation of Basque place names in Álava

open access: yesAnuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2018
This paper analyzes the stress patterns of town and village names of the province of Araba (Basque Country, Spain). There are many names that are accentuated closer to the beginning of the word than to the end of the word (Gardélegi, Etxábarri, Arrízala,
Garazi de Olano Martinitz-Xil   +1 more
doaj  

Syllable "Sonority" Hierarchy and Pulaar Stress: A Metrical Approach

open access: yesKansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1995
"Syllable weight is usually viewed as a binary opposition…' (Hayes 1989) . That is, syllable weight distinctions are claimed to be at most binary: heavy vs light; bimoraic vs monomoraic.
Niang, Mamadou
doaj   +1 more source

Habitat use and diel activity of insectivorous bats across land‐cover types on an Afrotropical oceanic island

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Using acoustic surveys, we investigated habitat use and diel activity patterns of insectivorous bats across the main land‐use types of the endemic‐rich Príncipe Island, in Central West Africa. We sampled bat activity at 48 sites spanning old‐growth forests, secondary regrowth forests, shaded cocoa plantations, and horticultural areas.
Ana Filipa Palmeirim   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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