Research Publications (Linguistics)
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2001
We explore the usage of the cardinal English posture verbs sit, stand, and lie relying on a number of corpora of English with a view towards establishing quantitative and qualitative differences for these search items across relatively small and relatively large corpora. Frequencies of these...
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2000
Weeber, M., Baayen, R.H., Vos, R.
In a medical information extraction system, we use common word association techniques to extract side-effect-related terms. Many of these terms have a frequency of less than five. Standard word-association-based applications disregard the lowest-frequency words, and hence disregard useful...
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Intelligibility of foreign-accented words: Acoustic distances and gradient foreign accentedness
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Porretta, Vincent, Tucker, Benjamin V.
Intelligibility and degree of accentedness are interrelated aspects of non-native speech. Previous research suggests that foreign accentedness is influenced by phonetic distance measures [7]. These distance measures may also influence the intelligibility of individual words. In the present study...
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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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2023-01-01
This book chapter offers an overview of the grammar of Jodï, an Amazonian language spoken in Venezuela. It appears in Volume 1 Language Isolates I: Aikanã to Kandozi-Shapra of the multivolume handbook "Amazonian Languages, An International Handbook" edited by Pattie Epps and Lev Michael and...
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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...