Research Publications (Linguistics)
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2009
Ménard, N., Van Nhan, N., Le, E.
This qualitative exploratory study of Vietnamese interpreters in Vietnam argues that the progressive dispelling of the interpreters’ invisibility myth must be accompanied by an increased importance paid to interpreters’ identities during their training. Indeed, the type(s) and extent of...
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2015-04-20
Podlubny, Ryan G., Geeraert, Kristina, Tucker, Benjamin V.
The present study explores the possibility of systematic acoustic differences that could be used to differentiate ‘homophones’. This study investigates productions of like in western Canadian English, focusing specifically on acoustic characteristics and whether they differ across multiple...
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2019-07-01
The Jodï are a small indigenous group of approximately 1,000 people living in relative isolation in the Venezuelan Sierra de Maigualida. Their language has generally been treated as an isolate or left unclassified in the language classification literature. However, different researchers have...
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Lexical acquisition over time in minority first language children learning English as a second language
Download2008
Paradis, J., Crago, M., Goldberg, H.
The English second language development of 19 children (mean age at outset = 5 years, 4 months) from various first language backgrounds was examined every 6 months for 2 years, using spontaneous language sampling, parental questionnaires, and a standardized receptive vocabulary test. Results...
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Measuring the dispersion of density in head and neck cancer patients' vowel spaces: The vowel dispersion index
Download2019-10-16
Matthew C. Kelley, Daniel Aalto
The present study introduces a measure of the dispersion of density throughout the vowel space, which we refer to as the vowel dispersion index. The vowel dispersion index is based on calculating the total variation of the density values in Story & Bunton’s (2017) convex hull representation of...
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Patterns of usage for English SIT, STAND, and LIE: A cognitively-inspired exploration in corpus linguistics
Download2004
Posture verbs with the meanings ‘‘sit’’, ‘‘stand’’, and ‘‘lie’’ are of considerable interest within cognitive linguistics on account of the richness of the polysemy and grammaticalizations that they enter into across languages. We explore the usage of English SIT, STAND, and LIE in over a dozen...
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Patterns of usage for English sit, stand, and lie: A cognitively-inspired exploration in corpus linguistics
Download2004
Posture verbs with the meanings ‘‘sit’’, ‘‘stand’’, and ‘‘lie’’ are of considerable interest within cognitive linguistics on account of the richness of the polysemy and grammaticalizations that they enter into across languages. We explore the usage of English SIT, STAND, and LIE in over a dozen...