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The Chaozhou dialect is a branch of Southern Min Chinese with eight tones and a wealth of tone sandhi. In this paper we explore whether there is a tone-sandhi effect on melodic construction and tone realisation in Chaozhou song, using a corpus analysis and observational study. Outcomes from the cor…

Face masks can cause speech processing difficulties. However, it is unclear to what extent these difficulties are caused by the visual obstruction of the speaker’s mouth or by changes of the acoustic signal, and whether the effects can be found regardless of semantic context. In the present study, …

The evolution of the capacity for language remains a contested and important subject. Newer approaches consider language evolution to be a protracted and mosaic process, with selection operating in different contexts through multiple drivers. This research examines two potential factors in language…

We develop a web-application for practice of listening skills by learners of English, which allows users to listen to pre-recorded sound-files and respond to multiple-choice questions. They receive feedback as to the accuracy of their responses, and they are navigated through the set of items in on…

Accents, along with other cultural features including shared place of origin, helped to increase the number of people with whom an individual could signal cooperative tendencies (Cohen, 2012). Yet as groups became larger and underwent continued fission and fusion, signals of group membership may ha…

'Documenting the endangered Neo-Aramaic dialects of Iraq and Iran’, Geoffrey Khan Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge Aramaic, a Semitic language, has a documented history of over three thousand years. The earliest inscriptions are datable to the beginning of the…

'Dyslexia as a Window into Language', Maria Teresa Guasti Università di Milano-Bicocca Recent research has uncovered deficits with rhythmic processing in children and adults with developmental dyslexia (DD) and an association between these deficits and reading. Other studies show a link between rh…

There is no doubt that learning new languages is infuriatingly difficult, especially at the later stages of life. As the world becomes "smaller" through globalisation, certain languages begin to increase in utility and start taking precedence over others, resulting in the extinction of the less "us…

Over time, new words enter the language, others become obsolete, and existing words acquire new meanings. In ancient Greek, the meaning of the Persian loanword paradeisos expanded from ‘garden’ to the Jewish-Christian ‘paradise’ in the Greek translation of the Old Testament and in the New Testament…