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The Conjure Woman's Poetics of Poisoning in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day
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Routledge
, 2018 , Article)
This article examines the poetics of poisoning in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day. The article traces the depiction of the conjure woman in novels written by African American female novelists in the 1980s, drawing upon the figure's ...
Processing passive constructions in arabic and english a crosslanguage priming study
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Georgetown University Press
, 2019 , Article)
The English and Arabic languages each have passive constructions, but their realizations in the two languages are quite different. We carried out a syntactic priming experiment on Arabic-English bilinguals to investigate ...
A brief self-rating scale for the assessment of individual differences in gesture perception and production
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Elsevier
, 2015 , Article)
Gesture production and perception have a strong impact on speech perception and social-communicative functioning. Consequently, we created the 'Brief Assessment of Gesture' (BAG) tool, a set of 12 subjective statements ...
Models of speech processing
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Taylor and Francis
, 2015 , Book chapter)
One of the fundamental questions about language is how listeners map the acoustic signal onto syllables, words, and sentences, resulting in understanding of speech. For normal listeners, this mapping is so effortless that ...
The neural basis of idea density during natural spoken language
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Springer International Publishing
, 2020 , Book chapter)
Idea density (ID) evolved as a quantification of propositional base structure. Besides its function as a measure of linguistic complexity, ID has also been used as an index of general linguistic ability. In order to find ...