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The Role of Folktales as Learning Source to Support Vocabulary Mastery for Senior High School Students [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The limited mastery of vocabulary is a main issue in Teaching English as Foreign Language (TEFL) particularly in the classroom context. One of the motives of this limitation derives from the lack exposure to the Target Language (TL).
Hamral, Ahmad
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James Platt Junior's Contributions to Old English Grammar1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In 1883, Henry Sweet took issue with James Platt junior, a 21‐year‐old language enthusiast. At the time, Platt was England's brightest young prospect in Old English linguistic studies. Sweet recognised Platt's talent, but he became convinced that he was also a plagiarist and tried to have him expelled from the Philological Society.
Stephen Laker
wiley   +1 more source

Acoustic and Intonational Correlates of Informational Status of Referring Expressions in Standard Korean [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
This paper examines the phonetic correlates of informational status of referring expressions in Standard Korean. Two experiments are conducted. The results show that speakers of Standard Korean indicate the informational status of referring expressions ...
Kang, Hyeon-Seok
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Mixed Distance Measures for Optimizing Concatenative Vocabularies for Speech Synthesis: A Thesis Proposal [PDF]

open access: yes, 1987
Synthesized speech from text-to-speech systems is generally produced from the concatenation of small units of speech. The concatenation process can be complex, involving smoothing and context dependent adjustments to the speech.
Polish, Nathaniel
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

Навчально-методичні матеріали з граматики української мови для англомовних студентів-іноземців [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
У навчально-методичних матеріалах у доступній і зручній формі стисло викладено основи теоретичних відомостей морфології сучасної української мови. Текст подано англійською мовою, що значно полегшить усвідомлення та засвоєння ключових граматичних термінів
Danyliuk, Nina O.   +7 more
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Text mining for case report articles on “peritoneal dialysis” from PubMed database

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 459-470, June 2025.
Abstract Introduction The number of published medical articles on peritoneal dialysis (PD) has been increasing, and efficiently selecting information from numerous articles can be difficult. In this study, we examined whether artificial intelligence (AI) text mining can be a good support for efficiently collecting PD information.
Kazuhiko Fukushima   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tagging Prosody and Discourse Structure in Elicited Spontaneous Speech [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
This paper motivates and describes the annotation and analysis of prosody and discourse structure for several large spoken language corpora. The annotation schema are of two types: tags for prosody and intonation, and tags for several aspects of ...
Beckman, Mary E., Venditti, Jennifer J.
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Phonological and semantic aspects of German intonation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper presents an outline of an autosegmental-metrical analysis of German intonation adopting Gussenhoven’s (1983, 2005) approach to Dutch intonation.
Peters, Jörg
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Sailing Through Time: Building Pacific Maritime Resilience

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the Pacific Blue Shipping Partnership (PBSP), an ambitious initiative aimed at decarbonising maritime transport across Oceania. The study explores the cultural, historical and technological aspects of wind‐propelled shipping in the Pacific.
Christiaan De Beukelaer   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

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