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How long is long? Word length effects in reading correspond to minimal graphemic units: An MEG study in Bangla.
(PLOS, 2024-04-18)This paper presents a magnetoencephalography (MEG) study on reading in Bangla, an east Indo-Aryan language predominantly written in an abugida script. The study aims to uncover how visual stimuli are processed and mapped ... -
Negotiating the Good Friday Agreement and Ending the Ukraine War
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-01-01)This article argues that an understanding of the successful process which led to the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement (GFA) provides a useful context for understanding the constraints and opportunities for peace making in ... -
Mapping affective circuits of a Twitter trolling attack against feminist arts-based pedagogy during the COVID-19 global pandemic
(Tay, 2022)We examine a Twitter attack against our phEmaterialist pedagogy during a UK-wide COVID-19 lockdown. We explore how trolls swarmed together in a collective mocking and ridiculing of images of colorful Play-doh genital models ... -
‘A Grand Strategic Error’: the British military elite’s role in the invasion of Iraq
(2024-03-01)President George W. Bush required only symbolic British participation in the invasion of Iraq, so why did the Labour government deploy their maximum military effort when this was unnecessary and considerably increased the ... -
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 ... -
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
(Cambridge University Press, 29-05-2024)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?
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Individual profiles amidst a multiethnolect: Acoustic hetereogeneity in London English
(Acoustical Society of America (ASA), 2023-10-01)