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Style-Shifting in Vlogging: An Acoustic Analysis of “YouTube Voice”
Lifespans and Styles, 2017 This article demonstrates evidence of context-related style-shifting on YouTube. This was achieved by comparing the vowels of vlogger Phil Lester in multiple contexts (a solo vlog, collaborative vlog, gaming video, and live video).
Sarah Lee
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Winston Churchill’s Divi Britannici (1675) and Archipelagic Royalism
Humanities, 2022 Divi Britannici (1675) is a major restoration history that deserves to be more widely known. The work’s author, Sir Winston Churchill (1620–1688), is certainly less well-known than his celebrated descendant of the same name.
Willy Maley, Richard Stacey
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‘Ow Cockney is Beckham Twenty Years On? An Investigation into H-dropping and T-glottaling
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 This research paper examines how language change can occur across the lifespan through the linguistic analysis of East Londoner, and world renowned football player, David Beckham.
Sofia Dahou, Jasmine Hamlin
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Accepting a “New” Standard Variety: Comparing Explicit Attitudes in Luxembourg and Belgium
Languages, 2021 Language maintenance efforts aim to bolster attitudes towards endangered languages by providing them with a standard variety as a means to raise their status and prestige. However, the introduced variety can vary in its degrees of standardisation.
Judit Vari, Marco Tamburelli
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Facing the Mirror: Dilemmas and Issues Encountered on a TESOL programme in an International University Environment [PDF]
, 2015 : This paper investigates the experiences of three postgraduate students studying on an MA TESOL and Applied Linguistics course in a British university context.
Leonard, J M
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Lifespans and Styles, 2017 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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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 UK Independence Party and the Politics of Englishness [PDF]
Political Studies Review, 2016 The rise of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) has been one of the most dramatic and widely discussed features of British politics in recent years. This article argues that one vital but largely overlooked facet of this phenomenon has been the politics of national identity.
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Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development, 2023 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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Open Heart, 2022 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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