Race-relevant cues influence the processing of linguistic variation: Evidence from African American English and Mainstream American English by Beyer Tim, Renirie Tess, Andresen David

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Euphemistic strategies in Algerian Arabic and American English by Alghazo Sharif, Bekaddour Soumia, Jarrah Marwan, Hammouri Yazeed

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Voice quality types and uses in North American English by Richard Wright, Courtney Mansfield, Laura Panfili

“…In this paper, we focus on creaky voice broadly-defined and concentrate on its distribution in North American English. While not contrastive, it plays an important role in phonology and a wide variety of other discourse, pragmatic, and social functions. …”
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Accent Choices of English Majors in the Netherlands: Patterns and Motivations by Gezina Christien Dorothé Huttenga, Dick Smakman

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Taming the Beast: Bullying and Censorship in Interlingual Subtitling by Hussein Abu-Rayyash, Said M. Shiyab

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Les relatives en américain contemporain by Françoise Dubois-Charlier

“…This paper presents an analysis of relatives clauses in a corpus of American English (a contemporary novel).Our first aim was to study whether the syntax of relatives clauses is the same in American English and in British English - and the study shows that the two systems differ in several important ways.Our second aim was to revive a methodology: the idea was to approach the data with an open mind, to gather and analyse all the occurrences in a complete discourse, to ‘listen’ to what the data have to say - as opposed to an approach frequently used in recent studies, where the argumentation is theory-based and theory-oriented, and examples collected here and there are mere illustrations of what is posited.…”
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L’interro-négative à l’oral en anglais contemporain : enjeux argumentatifs et pragmatiques by Pauline Levillain

“…This paper endeavours to open new perspectives on the analysis of negative interrogatives in spoken American English by considering what is at stake pragmatically and as far as argumentation is concerned in “discourse-in-interaction” after the French researcher Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni (2005). …”
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Caractérisation et délimitation de la catégorie des libfixes en anglais by Caroline Marty

“…The data is extracted from the English Web Corpus 2015 (Sketch Engine), the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA). …”
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Exploring students’ attitudes towards their own English accent: Insights from SMA Negeri 1 Stabat by Fika Emylia Effendi, Rahmadsyah Rangkuti, Rusdi Noor Rosa

“…The majority of students express a preference for the American accent, a choice shaped by the global dominance of American media, the Indonesian education system’s focus on American English, and the perceived career benefits tied to American English proficiency. …”
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“Diversity’s good unless you have a Southern accent, then you’re a hick”: Self-evaluation, linguistic insecurity and symbolic domination in Middle Tennessee by Marc-Philippe Brunet

“…The linguistic variety spoken in the south of the United States (Southern American English, hereafter SAE), is a well-documented field of investigation (Farington et al., 2018; Feagin, 2018; Fridland, 2003, 2008; Labov et al., 2006; Nunnally & Bailey, 2018; Reed, 2014). …”
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Avatars and humans may not elicit the same accent-related biases in mock courtroom research by Lara A. Frumkin, Anna Stone, Mary Jane Spiller

“…The design was a 2 × 2 × 3, mode of presentation (human or avatar), accent (General American English or non-standard) and country of origin (Germany, Mexico or Lebanon). …”
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Stratégies d’accommodation en anglais américain : le cas de l’interro-négative by Pauline Levillain

“…This study attempts to observe and analyse the accommodation strategies developed by speakers of American English in interaction. It aims at accounting for the use of this complex structure syntactically-speaking, combining both interrogation with negation, and analysing its semantic/pragmatic contribution to the strategies pursued by speakers, especially their accommodation strategies. …”
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Big data mining and comparative analyses across lexica on the relationship between syllable complexity and word stress by Amanda Post da Silveira

“…This study analyzes the syllabic structure implications for word stress in three languages with weight-sensitive lexical stress, namely Brazilian Portuguese, British English, and American English. After creating three corpora and applying Random Forest modeling, syllabic structure distributions for word stress were found to be bound to stress pattern and word length in number of syllables. …”
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Stratégies d’accommodation dans l’émission de débat politique Question Time (BBC1) : le cas de l’interro-négative by Pauline Levillain

“…After analysing the accommodation strategies put in place in a context of natural conversation in American English (Levillain 2017b), this study goes further into the accommodation strategies related to the specificity of a TV debate corpus.…”
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When must not is not forbidden by Leszek Szymański

“…The study uses authentic language samples retrieved from the online version of The Corpus of Contemporary American English. The analysis adapts the model of the semantic field of modal expressions developed by Kratzer (1991), and it attempts to find what lies behind the said lack of interaction between must and not. …”
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“The Biggest Small Town in America”: Cross-generational Patterns of Monophthongization in the Suburban South by Marc-Philippe Brunet

“…The phonology of the Southern states of the USA (Southern American English) is a well-documented phenomenon that has witnessed considerable change in the last century. …”
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Teaching American Studies within Intellectual History (idéhistoria) by David Östlund

“…The courses have also become exercises in linguistic and cultural translation from American English, as a language that is fairly familiar to most Swedish students becomes more complex in their perception, with meanings and bearings shifting in time and space. …”
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