Les interrogatives dites rhétoriques au prisme de la théorie d’Antoine Culioli by Bénédicte Guillaume

“…This study is based on a personal corpus of unsolicited attested examples of British or American English, taken from novels or from recent films and series.…”
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The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language by Yan Gu, Ed Donnellan, Beata Grzyb, Gwen Brekelmans, Margherita Murgiano, Ricarda Brieke, Pamela Perniss, Gabriella Vigliocco

“…The ECOLANG corpus provides audiovisual recordings and ELAN annotations of multimodal behaviours (speech transcription, gesture, object manipulation, and eye gaze) by British and American English-speaking adults engaged in semi-naturalistic conversation with their child (N = 38, children 3-4 years old, face-blurred) or a familiar adult (N = 31). …”
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How salient are sarcastic questions? by Efrat Levant, Nicole Katzir

“…A large-scale corpus research was conducted throughout three distinct corpora of American-English to determine how these interrogative constructions use salience to encode sarcasm, and how salience contributes to the preference of their sarcastic meaning over the literal one. …”
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The effectiveness of corpus-based training on collocation use in L2 writing for Chinese senior secondary school students by Fang Liuqin, Ma Qing, Yan Jiahao

“…Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and Word and Phrase were the main corpora that the participants used to learn various search functions. …”
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Some sociolinguistic evaluations of performances of the California Vowel Shift: a matched-guise study by Pierre Habasque

“…The aim of this paper is to report on the findings of a study investigating some social meanings attributed to performances of the California Vowel Shift (CVS), a chain shift that affects almost all vowels of American English, which undergo a counterclockwise rotation. …”
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“I could not understand anything they said!”: Non-native English-speaking instructors, online learning, and student anxiety by McClure Katelyn Lee, Chen Hung-Tao Michael

“…Participants in the study watched four videos, two with a non-native Englishspeaking instructor and the other two with an instructor with a Southern American English accent. After each video, participants were asked to recall questions about the information that they had just received before moving on to the following video. …”
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The evolution of creaky voice use in read speech by native-French and native-English speakers in tandem: a pilot study by Claire Pillot-Loiseau, Céline Horgues, Sylwia Scheuer, Takeki Kamiyama

“…It has been reported as prevalent in (especially American) English but it is rarely described in French.During tandem exchanges between native-French speakers and native-English speakers, does voice quality found in each of the 2 languages spoken evolve in the course of the interactions? …”
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Abstractive Summarization of Historical Documents: A New Dataset and Novel Method Using a Domain-Specific Pretrained Model by Keerthana Murugaraj, Salima Lamsiyah, Christoph Schommer

“…Furthermore, we leverage the potential of HistBERT, a domain-specific bidirectional language model trained on the balanced Corpus of Historical American English, (<uri>https://www.english-corpora.org/coha/</uri>) to capture the semantics of the input documents. …”
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Protocol for visual-acoustic intervention with service delivery in-person and via telepractice (VISIT) non-inferiority trial for residual speech sound disorder by Tara McAllister, Jonathan L. Preston, Elaine R. Hitchcock, Nina R. Benway, Jennifer Hill

“…Eligible children will be speakers of American English aged 9–17 years who exhibit RSSD affecting /ɹ/ but otherwise show cognitive-linguistic and hearing abilities within the typical range. …”
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Acoustic Analysis of Mandarin Chinese Vowels Produced by Young Adults by Zhenni WANG, Yang CHEN, Manwa L. NG, Liqun YAO, Weiming ZHANG

“…Previous studies have examined American English vowels produced by native adult speakers. …”
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Dataset of speech produced with delayed auditory feedbackOpen Science FrameworkOpen Science Framework by Matthias Heyne, Monique C. Tardif, Alexander Ocampo, Ashley P. Petitjean, Emily J. Hacker, Caroline N. Fox, Megan A. Liu, Madeline Fontana, Vincent Pennetti, Jason W. Bohland

“…Here we describe a large dataset of speech produced with DAF using modern experimental methods with systematic controls and varied speaking materials, including phonotactically legal, nonword syllable sequences and American English sentences. Auditory feedback latencies were tightly controlled and included a zero / minimal delay (∼12 ms), 150 ms, 200 ms, and 250 ms. …”
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