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Simultaneous development of the Pediatric GERD Caregiver Impact Questionnaire (PGCIQ) in American English and American Spanish
... The development of the PGCIQ followed the methodol- ogy of simultaneous questionnaire development. This process was selected to reduce the risk of systematic meas- urement error at the item level (i.e., item bias) and ...
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British ‘Bollocks’ versus American ‘Jerk’: do native British English speakers swear more –or differently compared to American English speakers?
... British English speakers did not report more frequent swearing in various situations than the American English speakers, although they tended to swear more with ...
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Biber Redux: Reconsidering Dimensions of Variation in American English
... 1990s American English reveal four major dimensions, three of which echo those found in prior work and the fourth depending on features not used in the earlier ...
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Measuring style shift : a quantitative analysis of African American English
... In recent decades, a great deal of individual attention has been paid to the structure and use of African American English, language acquisition, and contextual style switching. Few studies, however, have ...
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Variation And Change In Past Tense Negation In African American English
... modern American English (Elsness ...modern American English than in modern British English to cover the same semantic ground, specifically when a situation is located entirely in the ...
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Duration as a Phonetic Cue in Native and Non‑Native American English
... in American English was carried out by Black ...11 English vowels were recorded in isolation at a specific pace in the context where the vowel is preceded by /t/ and followed by a voiceless /p/, in ...
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Scandinavian interference on the _s ~ z_ voicing contrast in American English
... -century American English prior to widespread contact with Scandinavian languages but had gone unremarked, it would be expected to be present, possibly in multiple regions, but certainly in multiple ...
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Information structure, affect, and prenuclear prominence in American English
... The influence of information structure (IS: givenness, accessibility, newness and focus) on pitch accent assignment and acoustic prominence measures of prenuclear words was investigated for American English ...
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Performing Speaking “Ungrammatical” American English: A Kuwaiti Linguistic Phenomenon
... their English language proficiency and the extent of expo- sure to this ...towards American English, specifically (following the realization that this variety of English is favored among ...
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Complimenting behaviour on Facebook: responding to compliments in American English
... in American English, using the the same corpus employed by Placencia and Lower (2013) for the analysis of compliment realisation, and builds on previous studies on compliment responses (see Section ...
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Refinements in Tabular Models of Variation in Regional American English
... REFINEMENTS IN TABULAR MODELS OF VARIATION IN REGIONAL AMERICAN ENGLISH GORDON i~ WOOD REFINEMENTS IN TABULAR MODELS OF VAR IATION IN REGIONAL AMER`ICAN ENGLISH * I INTRODUCTION Models o f the geograp[.] ...
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The Present Perfect and Preterite in British and American English
... and American English. We put together a British and an American corpus and analysed the differences and similarities between British and American English in this ...in American or ...
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MASC: the Manually Annotated Sub-Corpus of American English
... of American English in its many genres and ...than English, thus creating a global resource for multi-lingual technologies, including machine ...
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American English File Book Evaluation
... We have been asked at least 120 EFL teachers, advanced learners, practitioners, theorists, language psychologist, and course designer to participate in this study to give their ideas on check list and Likert scale ...
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The Impact of the American English Learning upon Chinese College Students’ Ideology
... China, American English teaching permeates to all levels of education, from primary students up to doctoral ...provide American English ...study English as early as possible. ...
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Twitter Universal Dependency Parsing for African American and Mainstream American English
... media English, particularly social media African-American English (AAE), by de- veloping and annotating a new dataset of 500 tweets, 250 of which are in AAE, within the Universal Dependencies ...
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A thematic corpus-based study of idioms in the Corpus of Contemporary American English
... It can be very demanding and time consuming to search for a large number of idioms in large corpora. To date, not enough corpus-based studies have been conducted on idioms and the existing research has been limited to ...
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An intercultural study of euphemistic strategies used in Saudi Arabic and American English
... People often use euphemistic utterances or expressions to avoid offensive or tabooed topics, to make them more implicit and considerate. This paper explores the euphemistic strategies used in Saudi Arabic and ...
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Phonological and phonetic characteristics of African American English
... European American English are both quite stress ...Jamaican English and Mexican American English, both of which have previously been described as relatively syllable timed and both of ...
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An Intonational Analysis of Mexican American English in Comparison to Anglo American English
... Mexican American English (MAE) has been largely ...Mexican American intonation and offers additional data and insight to fill this linguistic ...
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