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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the Sicilian town of Palermo, two main languages are spoken, Italian and Sicilian. But people are often unwilling to consider Sicilian a language, taking it instead as an inferior “dialect.” Linguistic choice is associated with two broad, competing discourses about Sicilian culture and ethnicity: discourses of heritage on the one hand and ...
Paola Tiné
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Machine Assisted Analysis of Vowel Length Contrasts in Wolof
, 2017 Growing digital archives and improving algorithms for automatic analysis of text and speech create new research opportunities for fundamental research in phonetics. Such empirical approaches allow statistical evaluation of a much larger set of hypothesis
Besacier, Laurent +2 more
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Sorries seem to have the harder words
British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Is someone who says ‘I'm genuinely sorry’ more sorry than someone who says ‘I'm really sorry’? The studies in this paper show that people use longer words when apologizing (Study 1) and interpret apologies with longer words as more apologetic (Study 2). This is in line with signalling accounts that propose that apologizers should incur a cost (
Shiri Lev‐Ari
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Higher‐pitched voices are perceived as financially trustworthy
British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Previous research is mixed as to whether listeners perceive higher‐ or lower‐pitched voices as more financially trustworthy. These mixed results may be owing to variation in the degree of risk implied in the scenarios used to measure perceptions of financial trustworthiness. I tested whether the degree of risk in the type of trust game used to
Jillian J. M. O'Connor
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Auditory Testing of a Simplified Description of Vowel Articulation [PDF]
, 1955 A. S. House, Κ. Ν. Stevens
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Cross-level interactions in Latin: Vowel shortening, vowel deletion and vowel gliding
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2019 Serial and parallel OT differ in the way they account for phonological generalizations referring to more than one level of the prosodic hierarchy. Vowel shortening in Latin is analyzed by McCarthy, Pater & Pruitt (2016) as a case in point. Vowel shortening takes place to optimize foot structure.
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Changes in the pronunciation of Māori and implications for teachers and learners of Māori [PDF]
, 2009 This paper discusses changes in the pronunciation of Māori and implications for teachers and learners of Māori. Data on changes in the pronunciation of Māori derives from the MAONZE project (Māori and New Zealand English with support from the Marsden ...
Harlow, Ray +4 more
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Autistic adults form first impressions from voices in similar ways to non‐autistic adults
British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract In everyday life, listeners spontaneously and rapidly form first impressions from others' voices. Previous research shows that, compared to non‐autistic people, autistic people show similarities and differences in how they evaluate others based on their faces.
Ceci Qing Cai +4 more
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