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Abstract Ethnographers observe and engage the field. They live with, play with, eat with, dance with, feel with, and, increasingly, write or film with their interlocutors. But most of all, they listen and converse. As they enter the lingual ecology of their hosts through a range of practices of communication, ethnographers begin a multi‐faceted journey
Borut Telban, Ute Eickelkamp
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The [ADJ + as] intensifier construction in Māori English/Aotearoa English
Abstract We introduce the Waikato Māori English Conversation (MEC) corpus, which consists of 43 dyadic conversations between 49 young adults who self‐recorded informal conversations with close friends, in their own homes, with no topic of conversation specified (83 hours of dialogue; nearly 800,000 words).
Andreea S. Calude, Hēmi Whaanga
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An acoustic study on monophthongs in Central Australian Aboriginal English
Abstract We present an acoustic analysis of monophthongal vowel production in Central Australian Aboriginal English (CAAE), providing one of the first systematic examinations of this variety spoken by English‐as‐a‐first‐language (L1) speakers in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, Australia.
Yizhou Wang +4 more
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Morfo-metafonia e vocalismo marginale nei dialetti salentini settentrionali
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
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Applied Linguistics, sociolinguistics and world Englishes
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
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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
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Sound‐offset encoding is related to speech‐in‐noise perception at sentence level in older adults
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
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Abstract figure legend Graphical summary of our study. Rats with varying hearing experiences were bilaterally implanted with cochlear implants (CIs), and neural responses were recorded from the inferior colliculus (IC), an auditory midbrain region (left).
S. Fang +6 more
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Developmental Patterns of English Alphabet Knowledge in Chinese–English Emergent Bilingual Children
The graphical abstract compares the developmental patterns of alphabet knowledge between Chinese‐English bilingual children and established monolingual norms. The study highlights a distinct developmental pattern, emphasizing the need for alphabet instruction that accounts for specific cultural and linguistic contexts for bilingual children.
Somin Park
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ABSTRACT Objective(s) To evaluate the effectiveness of a family‐involved hybrid voice therapy program in children with vocal fold nodules using multidimensional voice outcomes (objective acoustic, auditory‐perceptual, and parent‐reported measures) and to examine whether family socioeconomic opportunity is associated with baseline burden or ...
Şeyda Akbal Çufalı +1 more
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