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The Somatic Crowd: The Bodily and Sensory Experience of Reform Crowds in Britain, c.1816–48*
Parliamentary History, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 72-89, February 2026.Abstract This article considers the roles that the body and the senses played in shaping the dynamics of 19th‐century reform crowds in Britain. Acoustics, terrain, timing, weather and corporeal issues of hunger, thirst and calls of nature influenced the timing and location of events and, along with the physical aspects of accessibility, visibility and ...
Dave Steele
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Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2011 This paper contends that the two competing "rules" that the literature on Portuguese morphophonology has claimed to apply to the verb paradigm, namely, vowel height harmony and vowel lowering, are, in fact, phonotactic restrictions that apply, in a ...
Eleonora Cavalcante Albano
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DRESS-down: /ε/-lowering in apparent time in a rural Scottish community [PDF]
, 2015 This paper presents a sociophonetic investigation of /ɛ/-lowering in apparent time. The data come from 24 speakers, across three generations from Buckie, northeast Scotland (12 males, 12 females).
Holmes-Elliott, Sophie, Smith, Jennifee
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Comparing human and machine vowel classification [PDF]
, 2007 In this study we compare human ability to identify vowels with a machine learning approach. A perception experiment for 14 Hungarian vowels in isolation and embedded in a carrier word was accomplished, and a C4.5 decision tree was trained on the same ...
Mády, Katalin, Reichel, Uwe D.
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 29-42, February 2026.ABSTRACT Sociolinguists emphasize the context‐dependence of social meanings activated by linguistic variation. I examine this dynamic using the Goffmanian concept of frames, focusing on the intersection of gender and sexuality. More specifically, I explore pitch variation as an index of femininity in the domestic abuse victimization frame.
Matthew Hunt
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Artificial Compound Eye for Clear Vision in Harsh Environment
Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 36, Issue 4, 12 January 2026.Artificial compound eye (CE) with exceptional imaging and motion tracking capturing the movement of a spider and swinging thread with a wide field of view. Surface modifications ensure clear vision of alphabetic letters in rain and fog. Images captured in fog with CE remains visible 3 times longer than simple eyes (SE).
Kehinde Kassim +6 more
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Phonetic Distinctiveness vs. Lexical Contrastiveness in Non-Robust Phonemic Contrasts
Laboratory Phonology, 2016 It is known that the mid vowel contrasts of Standard Italian distinguish few minimal pairs, may be lexically variable, and show some degree of phonological conditioning in certain varieties.
D. Robert Ladd, Margaret Renwick
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Neuromorphic Device Based on Material and Device Innovation toward Multimode and Multifunction
Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 8, Issue 1, January 2026.In the era of big data, multimodal and multifunctional neuromorphic devices offer significant opportunities in designing AI hardware. In this work, recent advances about emerging material systems and novel device structures in this field are summarized in detail. Potential applications are reviewed.
Feng Guo +3 more
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Kannada Character Recognition System A Review [PDF]
, 2009 Intensive research has been done on optical character recognition ocr and a large number of articles have been published on this topic during the last few decades.
Indira, K., Selvi, S. Sethu
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, 2006 This paper presents the results of a first phonetic investigation of register in Mah Meri, a Southern Aslian language spoken in Peninsular Malaysia, and part of the larger Austroasiatic family spread throughout South and Southeast Asia. Voice register, a
Hajek, John +3 more
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