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Mother Tongue Influence and Global English: Creating “Neutral” Elites in Delhi's Business Processing Outsourcing Industry

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 466-475, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Mother tongue influence (MTI) is a widely used yet often underdefined term in India's business process outsourcing (BPO) industry. “Mother tongue” is an unavoidable, yet fraught political category linked to sovereignty, education, region, and ethnicity.
Kristina Nielsen
wiley   +1 more source

Learning the Dynamics of Vowel to Vowel Phonotactics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Coelho, Orlando Bisacchi   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

“See, Your Grandma Has Two Mother Tongues…or Only One?”: Shame, Dialect, and Shifting Mother Tongues in Sicily

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 509-516, September 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

The Development of Early Phonological Networks: An Analysis of Individual Longitudinal Vocabulary Growth

open access: yesCognitive Science, Volume 49, Issue 9, September 2025.
Abstract While much work has emphasized the role of the environment in language learning, research equally reports consistent effects of the child's knowledge, in particular, the words known to individual children, in steering further lexical development.
Judith Kalinowski   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of Duration upon the Intelligibility of Synthetic Vowels

open access: bronze, 1960
Ronald W. Wendahl   +2 more
openalex   +1 more source

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