The British English version of the Juvenile Arthritis Multidimensional Assessment Report (JAMAR)
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DOI: 10.1007/s00296-018-3985-5
Abstract: The Juvenile Arthritis Multidimensional Assessment Report (JAMAR) is a new parent/patient-reported outcome measure that enables a thorough assessment of the disease status in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). We report the results of the… read more here.
Keywords: juvenile arthritis; multidimensional assessment; jamar; arthritis multidimensional ... See more keywords
If-insubordination in spoken British English: Syntactic and pragmatic properties
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DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2017.12.009
Abstract: Abstract This paper analyses insubordinate if-clauses in spoken British English (e.g. If you'll just come next door) as independent from full conditional clauses and indirect interrogative complement clauses, using data extracted from the British component… read more here.
Keywords: insubordination spoken; syntactic pragmatic; spoken british; british english ... See more keywords
td-deletion in British English: New evidence for the long-lost morphological effect
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DOI: 10.1017/s0954394520000034
Abstract: ABSTRACT This paper analyzes td-deletion, the process whereby coronal stops /t, d/ are deleted after a consonant at the end of the word (e.g., best, kept, missed) in the speech of 93 speakers from Manchester,… read more here.
Keywords: deletion; british english; morphological effect; effect deletion ... See more keywords
Recent change in stative progressives: a collostructional investigation of British English in 1994 and 2014
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DOI: 10.1017/s136067431900042x
Abstract: The spread of the progressive from dynamic to stative verbs started in the seventeenth century, and slowed down in the late twentieth century. The present study investigates recent change in the use of stative progressives… read more here.
Keywords: recent change; british english; stative progressives; analysis ... See more keywords
A corpus-based comparative study on the superlative forms in British English and Singapore Colloquial English
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DOI: 10.1080/00437956.2017.1386892
Abstract: The study compares Singapore Colloquial English (SCE) and British English with respect to the usage of the two superlative forms, inflectional and periphrastic. I predicted that the periphrastic forms were more frequent in SCE than… read more here.
Keywords: singapore colloquial; study; superlative forms; colloquial english ... See more keywords
Perceptual similarity spaces of British English vowels by speakers of Pakistani Urdu
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DOI: 10.1121/1.4987398
Abstract: Free classification was undertaken with 70 listeners from Lahore, Pakistan with Punjabi and Urdu as their first languages in order to shed light on the English vowel features that have been most relevant in developing… read more here.
Keywords: spaces british; perceptual similarity; similarity spaces; british english ... See more keywords
F2 slope as a Perceptual Cue for the Front–Back Contrast in Standard Southern British English
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DOI: 10.1177/0023830916650991
Abstract: Acoustic studies of several languages indicate that second-formant (F2) slopes in high vowels have opposing directions (independent of consonantal context): front [iː]-like vowels are produced with a rising F2 slope, whereas back [uː]-like vowels are… read more here.
Keywords: slope; standard southern; front; cue ... See more keywords