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Influence of pitch and speaker gender on perception of creaky voice
(2024-01-01)Creaky voice is a non-modal voice quality generally described as sounding pulse-like and low in pitch. While empirical studies have produced mixed results when it comes to creak prevalence by speaker gender, creaky voice ... -
Widerstand gegen die Verwendung geschlechtergerechter Sprache als neue Facette des Sprachpurismus. Eine Untersuchung der Positionen des Vereins Deutsche Sprache (VDS)
(Gesellschaft fur deutsche Sprache e. V., 2024) -
The impact of mental health and psychosocial support programmes on children and young people's mental health in the context of humanitarian emergencies in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
(Cambridge University Press, 2024-02-12)Humanitarian emergencies pose a significant global health challenge for children and young people's mental and psychological health. This systematic review investigates the effectiveness of mental health and psychosocial ... -
Bakhtin's Discovery and Appropriations: in Russia and in the West
(2024-01-01)This article sets itself a twofold task. On the basis of recently published scholarship, it wishes to revisit the history of Bakhtin's discovery in Russia and the West since the 1960s; but it also intends to offer a tentative ... -
‘Tick boxes are just tick boxes’: Problematising evidence-based teaching and exploring the space of the possible through a complexity lens
(2024-01-01)This article seeks to provide a new paradigm for questioning how quality and excellence in teaching practices are understood and evaluated. By combining ideas from complexity theory and Michel Foucault’s conception of ... -
Representational risks associated with interview-based animated documentaries.
(2022-06)This article provides an analysis of representational issues associated with interview-based animated documentary productions directed by non-autistic filmmakers, attempting to represent one or more autistic participants. ... -
The Role of Local Identity in the Usage and Recognition of Anglo-Cornish Dialect Lexis
(2024-03-01)Despite the well attested finding that orientation to place can exhibit correlations with sociolinguistic usage, the role of place identity in sociolinguistic variation and change has been long disputed. The disputes often ... -
The jet set: Modern RP and the (re)creation of social distinction
While the loss of regional distinctiveness across the southeastern UK is well studied and largely undisputed, there is less consensus about class-based divisions. This paper investigates this question through an updated ... -
How “U” are “U” words?
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024-02-23)