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Phonetic drift [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This chapter provides an overview of research on the phonetic changes that occur in one’s native language (L1) due to recent experience in another language (L2), a phenomenon known as phonetic drift.
Chang, Charles B.
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African Perspectives on Decolonising Linguistics

open access: yes
Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
Felix Banda
wiley   +1 more source

Applied Linguistics, sociolinguistics and world Englishes

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract The world Englishes perspective, especially as expressed within Kachru's formulation of the Inner, Outer and Expanding Circles of Englishes, provides a flexible and coherent model of the historical spread of English. While the model has had a profound influence on various subfields of applied linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics ...
Andrew Moody
wiley   +1 more source

Morfo-metafonia e vocalismo marginale nei dialetti salentini settentrionali

open access: yesAtti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese
The northern Salentino vowel system, provided with five stressed vowels, is nowadays conceived as an original Sicilian system, later influenced by the Neapolitan one. Indeed, each of the two mid vowels shows two different metaphonic outcomes (/ɛ‒MET/ ~ /
Alessandro De Angelis
doaj   +1 more source

Acoustic analysis of the Syrian Arabic vowel system [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper describes the vowel system of Syrian Arabic (SA) as spoken in Damascus. We examine the acoustic correlates of SA short/long vowel contrasts, and investigate the status of mid vowels in SA.
Alhussein Almbark, Rana, Hellmuth, Sam
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Sound‐offset encoding is related to speech‐in‐noise perception at sentence level in older adults

open access: yesThe Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract figure legend Schematic summary of the study investigating sound‐onset and offset sensitivity in the brain of older adults. EEG responses to white‐noise bursts were recorded to examine neural encoding of sound onset and offset during passive listening and active task conditions.
Hasan Colak   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the Ngbugu vowel system

open access: yes, 2022
Previous researchers have posited asymmetric oral vowel systems for Ngbugu and other Banda languages. The present analysis shows that Ngbugu has a symmetric ten-vowel system which includes one interior vowel /ə/ and lacks vowel harmony. It also supports and refines Boyeldieu & Cloarec-Heiss’s (2001) proposed Proto-Banda vowel system. The affinities
openaire   +1 more source

Bridging the Summer Gap: A Scoping Review of the Literature on Summer Reading Programs

open access: yesReading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, April/May/June 2026.
The graphical abstract provides an overview of a scoping review examining the empirical research that has been conducted on summer reading programs. ABSTRACT This article presents the findings of a scoping review of 32 empirical studies that examined summer reading programs in the elementary education context between 2014 and 2024.
Pamela Beach, Holly Crump
wiley   +1 more source

KILLJOY POETICS IN ANTJE RÁVIK STRUBEL'S BLAUE FRAU (2021)

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 217-242, April 2026.
Abstract Drawing on Sara Ahmed's concept of killjoy activism, I explore how Antje Rávik Strubel's Blaue Frau employs a killjoy poetics that refuses to brush over violence, asymmetry, injury and force. Instead, the novel intervenes in affective textures of happiness and reconciliation, and forms activist and ecological networks of resistance. I build on
Alrik Daldrup
wiley   +1 more source

New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the morphosyntax of transitive constructions in Lakota, with particular emphasis being placed on the encoding of arguments. The analysis of argument marking through verbal affixes in Lakota transitive constructions raises two main questions: the existence or non‐existence of the zero marker for the third person singular and
Avelino Corral Esteban
wiley   +1 more source

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