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Measurement properties of the UK-English version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 (PedsQL™) generic core scales [PDF]
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2005 Background Health related quality of life (HRQL) has been recognised as an important paediatric outcome measurement. One of the more promising measures to emerge in recent years is the Pediatric Quality Of Life Inventory (PedsQL™), developed in the US ...
Maddocks Alison +7 more
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Mapping the Americanization of English in space and time. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 As global political preeminence gradually shifted from the United Kingdom to the United States, so did the capacity to culturally influence the rest of the world. In this work, we analyze how the world-wide varieties of written English are evolving.
Bruno Gonçalves +3 more
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Gender bias in video game dialogue
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Gender biases in fictional dialogue are well documented in many media. In film, television and books, female characters tend to talk less than male characters, talk to each other less than male characters talk to each other, and have a more limited range
Stephanie Rennick +7 more
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A COMPARISON OF LASER SCANNING AND STRUCTURE FROM MOTION AS APPLIED TO THE GREAT BARN AT HARMONDSWORTH, UK [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2013 The great barn at Harmondsworth near London Heathrow airport, United Kingdom (UK), was built in 1426–7 for the Bishop of Winchester. At 58 metres long and 11.4 metres wide, it is one of the largest ever known to have been built in the UK, and the ...
D. P. Andrews, J. Bedford, P. G. Bryan
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Current Swedish Archaeology, 2021 Slower reading in a second language (L2) has been attributed to lower proficiency and/or to slower language processing. This study investigates the role of linguistic context in L1 and L2 academic reading speed among 295 undergraduate Psychology students
Nicole Louise Busby, Anne Dahl
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“Whey Aye My Good Sir”: Has Cheryl Fernandez-Versini’s Accent Moved from Tyneside English to RP?
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 This article analyses the speech of Cheryl Fernandez-Versini (nee Tweedy, formerly Cole), henceforth “Cheryl” , who experienced rapid geographical and socioeconomic mobility between 2002 and 2014.
Victoria Wallace
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The role of networked learning in academics’ writing [PDF]
Research in Learning Technology, 2017 This article explores academics’ writing practices, focusing on the ways in which they use digital platforms in their processes of collaborative learning. It draws on interview data from a research project that has involved working closely with academics
Sharon McCulloch +2 more
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The Effects of Forensically Relevant Face Coverings on the Acoustic Properties of Fricatives
Lifespans and Styles, 2017 This forensically motivated study investigates the effects of a motorcycle helmet, balaclava, and plastic mask on the acoustics of three English non-sibilant fricatives, /f/, /θ/, and /v/ in two individuals. It examines variation within the individual as
Julie Saigusa
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Frontiers in Communication, 2023 Nasal coarticulation is when the lowering of the velum for a nasal consonant co-occurs with the production of an adjacent vowel, causing the vowel to become (at least partially) nasalized.
Jakub Gwizdzinski +3 more
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The Young and the Old: (t) Release in Elderspeak
Lifespans and Styles, 2017 Elderspeak refers to a speech style used when talking to the elderly. The aim of this study was to find out whether a higher rate of standard phonetic variants of phonemes is a feature of elderspeak.
James Michaelov
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