The impact of computer-assisted pronunciation on Saudi students’ production of English vowel sounds by Abdulmohsin A. Alshehri

“…The results of the study show that CAP significantly enhanced Hijazi EFL students’ pronunciation of English vowel sounds, especially for those vowels that were nonexistent in their L1 phonemic inventory. They also suggest that CAP could be a beneficial tool to be incorporated into English speaking lessons. …”
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Ungrammaticality and descriptive adequacy in English pronunciation: the case of syncope by Gabor Turcsan

“…A closer qualitative analysis reveals interesting surface patterns: the deletion of the vowel does not lead to resyllabification i.e. destruction of structure but, following the computational principle of monotonicity, leaves behind phonetic traces that point to non-adjacency, clearly allowing speakers to reconstruct the vowel-full form. …”
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Clinical Application of Standardized Cognitive Assessment Using fMRI. II. Verbal Fluency by Mark D. Allen, Alina K. Fong

“…This fMRI protocol is shown to have strong convergent validity with the FAS phonemic fluency test and to elicit activation patterns highly consistent with a large body of previous neuroimaging studies of verbal fluency. …”
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Sièm Occitans en prumièr o […] sièm pas ren du tot : une allocution d’Yves Rouquette (2009). Édition d’extraits, avec une introduction, des notes et une étude des diatopismes remar... by Jean-Pierre Chambon, Marjolaine Raguin-Barthelmebs, Jean Thomas

“…The treatment of the document strives to satisfy the editorial requirements most often reserved to Occitan medieval literary texts: a presentation of the speech and its context, an elaboration of editing criteria adapted to the document, an establishment of the text in the orthography used by Yves Rouquette in his literary work, a critical apparatus of a particular type (giving an account of the speaker's gestures, of some phonetic and phonostylistic realizations, speech misses, etc.), explanatory notes interpreting in detail the meaning of the text, a translation, and a study of the most local features of the speaker's Occitan variety (identifiable with that of Camarès, Aveyron).…”
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Indicating Dependency between Spoken Sentences by Prosodic Means by Mari Wiklund

“…The analyses are performed using instrumental phonetics methodology.…”
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R post-vocalique et histoire de l’anglais by Jacques Durand

“…While the loss of post-vocalic r’s does require an explanation in phonetic and phonological terms, I mainly concentrate on broader sociolinguistic and sociohistorical issue: on the one hand, the early emergence in Britain of London and the surrounding counties as a centre from which changes radiate across the whole of Britain; on the other hand, the complex evolution of English in the United States with the emergence of new social and geographical boundaries. …”
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Less Experienced Telestroke Consultants Are More Likely to Go On-Camera, but Less Likely to Give tPA by Adam de Havenon, Lee S. Chung, Jaleen Smith, Kirby Taylor, Jennifer J. Majersik, Nabeel Chauhan

“…The absolute rate of tPA administration, combining phone and camera administration, or the frequency of technical difficulties were not different. …”
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Gender disparity in living organ donation: a qualitative analysis of experiences and perceptions of female donors in Pakistan by Muhammad Ishaq, Javeria Saleem, Ruhma Binte Shahzad, Mahrukh Iqbal, Abida Tehreem, Raja Sajjad Asghar, Aleena Touqeer, Gul Mehar Javaid Bukkhari

“…Objectives This study aims to explore and analyse the interplay of sociocultural, psychological and institutional factors, gender roles and power dynamics in shaping the decision-making processes and experiences of living kidney and liver donors in Punjab, specifically focusing on women.Design This study employed a qualitative approach, using in-depth interviews to delve into the narratives and experiences of living kidney and liver donors in Punjab.Setting Punjab Human Organ Transplantation Authority (PHOTA), Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.Participants 17 participants registered at the PHOTA for kidney or liver donation.Results Interviews with living donors at PHOTA, Lahore, provided qualitative data, which was then systematically coded and analysed to identify recurring themes that explore the underlying social and cultural reasons for the observed gender disparity. …”
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Neural correlates of the non-optimal price: an MEG/EEG study by Aleksei Gorin, Elizaveta Kuznetsova, Andrew Kislov, Egor Levchenko, Vasily Klucharev, Victoria Moiseeva, Anna Yurchenko, Alexander Luzhin, Natalia Galkina, Anna N. Shestakova

“…In each trial, participants were exposed to a mobile phone image (iPhone, Nokia, or Xiaomi) followed by a price, and instructed to judge whether the price was high or low based on a target word (“cheap” or “expensive”).ResultsIn both EEG experiments, we found a strong N400-like response to the incongruent target words following prices that substantially differed from the real market value of the mobile phone. …”
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Beyond Screen Time: Assessing Recreational Sedentary Behavior among Adolescent Girls by Katherine W. Bauer, Sarah Friend, Daniel J. Graham, Dianne Neumark-Sztainer

“…This study aims to examine adolescent girls' participation in a variety of recreational sedentary behaviors (e.g., talking on the phone and hanging around), and their association with physical activity (PA), dietary behaviors, and body mass index. …”
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Handel zagraniczny produktami kurzymi w latach 2012-2017 by Dorota Pasińska

“…W latach 2012-2017 przy znacznym wzroście pogłowia kur (oprócz niosek), wystąpił ponad 58% wzrost ich ubojów oraz ponad dwukrotnie zwiększył się eksport produktów kurzych (drób kurzy żywy, mięso, podroby i przetwory). …”
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Research and realization of the Trojan detection engine based on Android by Bin XIA, Feng QIU

“…Finally, the designed Trojan detection engine provided a secure environment for the user of the phone.…”
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PHONOLOGICAL CHALLENGES IN INDONESIAN SYLLABIFICATION: INSIGHT FROM KOREAN LEARNERS by Nur Utami Sari'at Kurniati, Young Hun Koh, Dong Hoon Kim

“…This study is aimed at finding out how the differences in sound inventory and syllable structures between Indonesian and Korean influence the phoneme realization of Korean learners studying Indonesian. …”
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Les systèmes graphiques du francoprovençal : état des lieux et perspectives by Michela Russo, Dominique Stich

“…Several transcriptions have been proposed on a phonetic basis, and the principle of a grammatical and etymological spelling is generally not supported.An orthographic system that takes into account the entire Francoprovençal domain, France, Switzerland and Italy has been proposed by Dominique Stich (1998 ; 1999 ; 2001 ; 2003). …”
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Es lebe die Landeshauptfrau – Österreichische Fachsprachen im DaF-Unterricht by Reinhold Utri

“…., in Polish high schools), it is possible to teach learners grammatical, lexical, phonetic, idiomatic, and pragmatic units that they will later be able to use in communication with Austrian German speakers. …”
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Confrontation of Translators in Transferring Facts into Russian Translation of the Epic of Narts (Based on the Translation by A. A. Dzantiev, T.A. Hamitsaeva) by Maryam Shafaghi

“…Changing the writing alphabet of Ossetian language to Cyrillic in 1954 caused phonetic changes, especially in the specific names of the Ossetian. …”
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A classroom study on the perception and production of Basque sibilant fricatives by native speakers of English by Ander Beristain

“…Afterwards, they will create new categories based on the phonetic proximity of the new sounds and those in their native language. …”
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Feminist stylistic analysis and LGBTQA+ representation in Lady Gaga’s born this way by Rahmadsyah Rangkuti, Siti Hafifah

“…This study is intended to find out the exact meaning of the lyrics at different levels of language, and phonetic devices, as well as to reveal how these stylistic devices work on Lady Gaga’s Born This Way (LGBTQA+). …”
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Verbal Fluency Deficits Co-Occur with Memory Deficits in Geriatric Patients at Risk for Dementia: Implications for the Concept of Mild Cognitive Impairment by Maria E. Cottingham, Keith A. Hawkins

“…Whereas the normal memory group performed at equivalent levels on semantic and phonemic fluency tasks, both the impaired memory group and the intermediate group displayed relatively greater weaknesses in semantic fluency. …”
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Some Phonological Processes in Dibaji by Shahram Naghshbandi, Havva Hajeidi

“…This research is descriptive-analytical.The data are transcribed in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The phonological processes studied in the research are assimilation, dissimilation, deletion, insertion, lenition, and metathesis. …”
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