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Language, Islamophobia and Securitization
The final chapter revisits the book’s main arguments, namely, that Muslim women are misrepresented as non-speakers of English based on the selective...
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Discourses of Muslim Women’s Social Problems
After exploring the representation of Muslim women as non-speakers of English in the previous chapter, this chapter examines how Muslim women’s...
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On the Reduction of /ʒ/ in a Minority North American Variety of French
This paper provides a detailed examination of the acoustic properties of full and reduced forms of /ʒ/ produced by a francophone Canadian from...
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Statistical quality estimation for partially subjective classification tasks through crowdsourcing
When constructing a large-scale data resource, the quality of artifacts has great significance, especially when they are generated by creators...
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Chachapoyas
This chapter presents the third and final case study of this book, which is concerned with the ChachapoyasPeruChachapoyas area on the eastern slopes...
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Testing for underlying representations: Segments and clusters in Sevillian Spanish
The current study investigates the representational status of [Ch] sequences in Sevillian Spanish. Like many Spanish varieties, Sevillian...
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Musical grou** as prosodic implementation
This paper reviews evidence concerning the nature of grou** in music and language and their interactions with other linguistic and musical systems....
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Rethinking Cultural Appropriation in YA Literature Through Sámi and Arctic Pedagogies
This article highlights cultural appropriation in the literary representation of the Sámi (the indigenous people of the European Arctic) in two...
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The Iconicity of Linguistic Signs
Iconicity is a hot topic of cognitive linguistics in recent years. It refers to the natural connection between language structure and human’s...
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Synaesthesia and Intersemiosis: Competing Principles in Literary Translation
This chapter is an argument for the incorporation of synaesthetic effects into a creative translational practice designed to capture the reader’s...
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Glide strengthening in Atayal: sonority dispersion and similarity avoidance
This paper documents and analyzes the alternations between glides and fricatives in Atayal, an endangered Austronesian language spoken in northern...
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Statistical Modelling of Phonotactic Constraints and Preferences
This chapter presents an analysis of Polish initial and final (mor)phonotactics in terms of an approach which is not based on well-formedness...
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Cross-media Studies as a Method to Uncover Patterns of Silence and Linguistic Discrimination of Sexual Minorities in Ugandan Print Media
Ugandan sexual minorities have historically experienced varying degrees of explicit discriminatory coverage in traditional media outlets as well as...
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Conclusions and Implications: Paradoxes and Principles
This chapter describes the implications of the body of work for broader conversations in health care. Some of the complexities and paradoxes emerging...
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Boundary phenomena and variability in Japanese high vowel devoicing
Devoicing of high vowels (HVD) in Tokyo Japanese applies in two environments—between voiceless consonants, and between a voiceless consonant and a...
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Allomorphy and the question of abstractness: evidence from German
A model of grammar needs to reconcile the undesirability inherent to allomorphy, the apparent extra burden on learning and memory, with its...
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A Personal Note on the Larynx as Articulator in English
In tribute to Professor Sobkowiak’s well-known ability to think “outside the box”, I offer some suggestions for expanding the teaching of English...
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Predicting distributional restrictions on prenasalized stops
Previous studies on prenasalized stops (NCs) focus mainly on issues of derivation and classification, but little is known about their distributional...
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Curried English: Flawed Fluency, Markedness, and Diglossia in Brick Lane
The power of linguistic exhibitionism is most apparent in Brick Lane, a novel which successfully transliterates a mainly monolingual,...
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The Concept and Measurement of Speech Rhythm
This chapter discusses the nature and measurement of speech rhythm and proposes a multidimensional model of speech rhythm. Acoustic research on...