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    The Processing of Emotional Sentences by Young and Older Adults: A Visual World Eye-movement Study

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    Carminati MN, Knoeferle P. The Processing of Emotional Sentences by Young and Older Adults: A Visual World Eye-movement Study. Presented at the Architectures and Mechanisms of Language and Processing (AMLaP), Riva del Garda, Italy

    Variation and change in the vowel system of Tyneside English

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    PhD ThesisThis thesis presents a variationist account of phonological variation and change in the vowel system of Tyneside English. The distributions of the phonetic exponents of five vowel variables are assessed with respect to the social variables sex, age and social class. Using a corpus of conversational and word-list material, for which 32 speakers of Tyneside English were recorded, between 30 and 40 tokens per speaker of the variables (i), (u), (e), (o) and (3) were transcribed impressionistically and subclassified by following phonological context. The results of this analysis are significant on several counts. First, the speakers sampled appear to differentiate themselves within the speech community through the variable use of certain socially marked phonetic variants, which can be correlated with the sex, age and class variables. Secondly, the speakers style shift to a greater or lesser degree according to combinations of the three social factors, such that surface variability is reduced as a function of increased formality. Third, the overall pattern among the sample population seems to be one of increasing uniformity or convergence: it is speculated that social mobility among upper working- and lower-middle class groups may lead to accent levelling, whereby local speech forms are supplanted by supra-local or innovative intermediate ones. That is, the patterns observed here may be indicative of change in progress. Last, a comparison of the results for the (phonologically) paired variables (i u) and (e o) shows a strong tendency for Tyneside speakers to use these 'symmetrically', in that choice of variant in one variable predicts choice of variant in the other. It is suggested that the symmetry in the system is exploited by Tyneside speakers for the purposes of indicating social affiliation and identity, and is in this sense an extra sociolinguistic resource upon which speakers can draw. In addition, the variants of (3) are discussed with reference to the reported merger of this variable with (a); it is suggested that the apparent 'unmerging' of these two classes is unproblematic from a structural point of view, as the putative (3)—(o) merger appears never to have been completed.UK Economic and Social Research Council (award number R00429524350

    The Gamut: A Journal of Ideas and Information, No. 16, Fall 1985

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    CONTENTS OF ISSUE NO. 16, FALL, 1985 Klaus-Peter Hinze: Hitler and the Beetle, 3 One of America\u27s favorite automobiles, the Volkswagen bug, began as a pet project of the Nazi regime. Ron Haybron: Packaging the Seasons, 12 Calendars of different societies have ingeniously struggled with the incompatible cycles of sun, earth, and moon. Nancy McAfee: Philip Johnson\u27s Play House, 27 Cleveland\u27s new theater complex is a major example of Post-Modern architecture. Carsten Ahrens: Recollections of a Dragonfly Man, 39 A naturalist\u27s lifelong pursuit of the fascinating famUy of the Odonates. Wojbor Woyczynski: Of Men and Martingales, or, How to Gamble If You Must, 44 A deceptively simple mathematical process that could help you to hire a typist, win a court case, break the bank at Monte Carlo . . . Stuart A. Kollar: Short Story, Performing Art , 52 William Chisholm: Ions, Eons, Yarmulkes ... Mysteries of Pronunciation, 57 More art than science goes into the dictionaries\u27 decisions about how to say a word. Leonard M. Trawick: John Bennett\u27s Poetry of Beauty and Disgust, 70 Seemingly repellent poems repay sympathetic reading. John Bennett: Poems, 78 Diptick for C Three poems from Puking Horse Nips Works Biting the Brick French fries under water I was watching bug guts Harvey Pekar: The Novels of Daniel Fuchs, Neglected Master of the \u2730s, 84 Pioneering novelist turned screenwriter. Harvey Pekar: Hypothetical Quandary. From American Splendor, 93 BACKMATTER Nina Gibans: Supporting the Arts-A Comment, 96https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/gamut_archives/1013/thumbnail.jp

    Semantic radical consistency and character transparency effects in Chinese: an ERP study

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    BACKGROUND: This event-related potential (ERP) study aims to investigate the representation and temporal dynamics of Chinese orthography-to-semantics mappings by simultaneously manipulating character transparency and semantic radical consistency. Character components, referred to as radicals, make up the building blocks used dur...postprin

    Learning context effects : study abroad, formal instruction and international immersion classrooms

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    This book deals with the effects of three different learning contexts mainly on adult, but also on adolescent, learners' language acquisition. The three contexts brought together in the monograph include i) a conventional instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) environment, in which learners receive formal instruction in English as a Foreign Language (EFL); ii) a Study Abroad (SA) context, which learners experience during mobility programmes, when the target language is no longer a foreign but a second language learnt in a naturalistic context; iii) the immersion classroom, also known as an integrated content and language (ICL) setting, in which learners are taught content subjects through the medium of the target language-more often than not English, used as the Lingua Franca (ELF). The volume examines how these contexts change language learners' linguistic performance, and also non-linguistic, that is, it throws light on how motivation, sense of identity, interculturality, international ethos, and affective factors develop. To our knowledge, no publication exists which places the three contexts on focus in this monograph along a continuum, as suggested in Pérez-Vidal (2011, 2014), with SA as 'the most naturalistic' context on one extreme, ISLA on the other, and ICL somewhere in between, while framing them all as international classrooms. Concerning target languages, the nine chapters included in the volume analyze English, and one chapter deals with Spanish, as the target language. As for target countries in SA programmes, data include England, Ireland, France, Germany, and Spain in Europe, but also Canada, China, and Australia. While the main bulk of the chapters deal with tertiary level language learners, a language learning population which has received less attention by research thus far, one chapter deals with adolescent learners

    Exploring Cross-linguistic Effects and Phonetic Interactions in the Context of Bilingualism

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    This Special Issue includes fifteen original state-of-the-art research articles from leading scholars that examine cross-linguistic influence in bilingual speech. These experimental studies contribute to the growing number of studies on multilingual phonetics and phonology by introducing novel empirical data collection techniques, sophisticated methodologies, and acoustic analyses, while also presenting findings that provide robust theoretical implications to a variety of subfields, such as L2 acquisition, L3 acquisition, laboratory phonology, acoustic phonetics, psycholinguistics, sociophonetics, blingualism, and language contact. These studies in this book further elucidate the nature of phonetic interactions in the context of bilingualism and multilingualism and outline future directions in multilingual phonetics and phonology research

    Temporal integration of loudness as a function of level

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    Orthographies in Early Modern Europe

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    This volume provides, for the first time, a pan-European view of the development of written languages at a key time in their history: that of the 16th century. The major cultural and intellectual upheavals that affected Europe at the time - Humanism, the Reformation and the emergence of modern nation-states - were not isolated phenomena, and the evolution of the orthographical systems of European languages shows a large number of convergences, due to the mobility of scholars, ideas and technological innovations throughout the period
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