Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 64-84, September 2024.Abstract We analyze Asian American comedian Ali Wong's linguistic and embodied performance in her 2016 stand‐up special, Baby Cobra, through a genre‐specific lens to investigate how stand‐up comedy's performance conventions shape her comedic persona. We argue that Wong uses communicative forms indexically associated with Blackness to perform racialized
Kendra Calhoun, Joyhanna Yoo
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An Acoustic Analysis of Voicing in American English Dental Fricatives [PDF]
, 2013 In this study, an acoustic analysis of the dental fricatives as produced by American English speakers from the Buckeye Corpus (Pitt et al. 2006) reveals that the dental fricatives are subject to variation in voicing based on phonetic environment, much ...
Smith, Bridget
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Sound symbolism in synesthesia: evidence from a lexical-gustatory synesthete [PDF]
, 2013 Synesthesia is a condition in which perceptual or cognitive stimuli (e.g., a written letter) trigger atypical additional percepts (e.g., the color yellow).
Bankieris K. +8 more
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Spelling, phonology and etymology in Hittite historical linguistics, a review article on Kloekhorst, A. Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden: 2008) [PDF]
, 2011 This review article addresses the representation of glottal stops in Akkadian and Hittite ...
Bürde +39 more
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A neglected phonetic law: The assimilation of pretonic yod to a following coronal in North-West Semitic [PDF]
, 2012 International audienceThis paper shows the existence of a pretonic assimilation of *y to a following coronal consonant (including *y from proto-Semitic *y and *w) in North-West Semitic languages.
Garnier, Romain, Jacques, Guillaume
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Learning Language Representations for Typology Prediction
, 2017 One central mystery of neural NLP is what neural models "know" about their subject matter. When a neural machine translation system learns to translate from one language to another, does it learn the syntax or semantics of the languages?
Littell, Patrick +2 more
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Current research on linguistic variation in the Arabic-speaking world [PDF]
, 2016 Given its abundance of dialects, varieties, styles and registers, Arabic lends itself easily to the study of language variation and change. It is spoken by some 300 million people in an area spanning roughly from northwest Africa to the Persian Gulf ...
Uri Horesh, William Cotter
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Convergence in word structure: Revisiting agglutinative noun inflection in Cappadocian Greek [PDF]
, 2016 Cappadocian Greek is reported to display agglutinative inflection in its nominal system, namely, mono-exponential formatives for the marking of case and number, and NOM.SG-looking forms as the morphemic units to which inflection applies.
Karatsareas, P., Karatsareas, P.
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“I Understood You, But There was This Pronunciation Thing…”: L2 Pronunciation Feedback in English/French Tandem Interactions [PDF]
, 2013 We hope that our data brings a valuable and fairly unique contribution to SLA research, helping to establish which errors get corrected and how it may have implications for setting priorities in L2 pronunciation ...
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Early bilingualism as a source of morphonological rules for the adaptation of loanwords: Spanish loanwords in Basque [PDF]
, 2009 Obra colectiva editada por Andrea Calabrese y W. Leo Wetzels. Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science. Series IV, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory ; 307[EN] The present socio-cultural situation in the Basque speaking area of ...
Oñederra Olaizola, Miren Lourdes
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