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Normative Data for 84 UK English Rebus Puzzles. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2018 Recent investigations have established the value of using rebus puzzles in studying the insight and analytic processes that underpin problem solving. The current study sought to validate a pool of 84 rebus puzzles in terms of their solution rates, solution times, error rates, solution confidence, self-reported solution strategies, and solution phrase ...
Threadgold E, Marsh JE, Ball LJ.
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English Bulldogs in the UK: a VetCompass study of their disorder predispositions and protections
Canine Medicine and Genetics, 2022 Plain English summary The English Bulldog has risen sharply in popularity over the past decade in the UK. However, its distinctive and extreme conformation has raised concerns because many of these physical features render the breed prone to serious ...
Dan G. O’Neill +6 more
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The Illusion of Consensus: English Teaching and the UK National Curriculum [PDF]
Language Arts Journal of Michigan, 1992 Poulson, Louise
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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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Cardiffians’ perceptions of English in the UK
Journal of Linguistic Geography, 2020 AbstractThis Perceptual Dialectology (PD) study asked residents of Cardiff, Wales, about their perceptions of English in the United Kingdom (UK). In addition, because face to face exposure to dialect variation has rarely been included as a variable in PD studies, participants were asked about their travel experience to ascertain whether this might ...
Betsy E, Evans +2 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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Working-Class Heroes: Intraspeaker Variation in General Secretary Len McCluskey
Lifespans and Styles, 2017 We examine “Liverpool lenition” in the speech of Len McCluskey, a speaker of “Scouse”. Scouse is a variety of Liverpool English associated with the working-class persona of the “Liverpudlian”.
Aïsha Daw, Xueyan Zhou
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Longitudinal match performance characteristics of UK and non-UK players in the English Premier League [PDF]
Science and Medicine in Football, 2016 This study investigated the longitudinal match performance characteristics in the English Premier League (EPL), with special reference to player nationality (UK vs. non-UK). Match observations (n = 14700) were collected using a multi-camera computerised tracking system across 7 consecutive EPL seasons (2006–2007 to 2012– 2013).
Bush, Michael +4 more
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Goin’ Home: The Role of Vowel Raising in Indexing an Ethnic Identity
Lifespans and Styles, 2017 Vowel height can be seen as a feature indexing a particular ethnic identity or indicating a style shift between two such identities. This paper focuses on Bradford-born South Asian musician Zayn Malik, an interesting subject given his prominent status as
Suzey Ingold
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