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Welcome to the second issue of the third volume of Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers on Intraspeaker Variation. We are happy to feature five papers that continue the journal’s mission of highlighting excellence in undergraduate research ...
Lauren Hall-Lew
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Aims Heart failure (HF) has a lower public profile compared with other serious health conditions, notably cancer. This discourse analysis study investigates the extent to which HF is discussed in general contemporary English, UK parliamentary debates and
Rajiv Sankaranarayanan +3 more
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OBJECTIVES From 2006, the Ministry of Education in China has approved universities to provide undergraduate medical training in English, targeting fee-paying international students. Students on these courses can face challenges in their clinical training,
Mohammed Ahmed Rashid +2 more
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Functions of English vs. Other Languages in Sri Lankan Buddhist Rituals in the UK
This paper focuses on the functions of English versus other languages in Sri Lankan Buddhist rituals. The framework for this paper is based on a previous work on the language of Hindu rituals by Pandharipande (2012).
Manel HERAT
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Introduction: Environmental Humanities Approaches to Climate Change
The development of the environmental humanities as an interdisciplinary formation is a response to an ecological and planetary crisis [...]
David Higgins +2 more
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English Bulldogs in the UK: a VetCompass study of their disorder predispositions and protections
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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Smooth Signals and Syntactic Change
A large body of recent work argues that considerations of information density predict various phenomena in linguistic planning and production. However, the usefulness of an information theoretic account for explaining diachronic phenomena has remained ...
Joel C. Wallenberg +3 more
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BOOK REVIEW The Crescent in the West: Image of the Orient in English Literature up to 1832
Abdur Raheem Kidwai is a Professor of English at the Aligarh Muslim University, India, and Visiting Professor Fellow, School of English, University of Leicester, UK (2006-2016).
Mohammad Teisir Bin Shah Goolfee
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Creating Welsh Language Word Embeddings
Word embeddings are representations of words in a vector space that models semantic relationships between words by means of distance and direction. In this study, we adapted two existing methods, word2vec and fastText, to automatically learn Welsh word ...
Padraig Corcoran +4 more
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Deaf-Accessible Parenting Classes: Insights from Deaf Parents in North Wales
Parenting support services and programs develop and strengthen existing parenting skills. However, in the UK and despite the 2010 UK Equality Act’s provisions, these programs are generally not accessible for Deaf parents whose first and/or preferred ...
Anouschka Foltz +2 more
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