This paper investigates the production of Arabic gutturals by native (NSs) and non-native speakers (NNSs) Arabic. A total 40 participants, 20 NSs NNSs were recruited. 240 tokens collected using two major methods: free speech nonsense word testing. Using PRAAT software (version 6.1.01), analyzed acoustically to measure F1 F2 signal (non)significance difference between target groups auditorily ra...

This paper presents SPA, a web-based Speech Analytics platform that integrates several speech processing modules and that makes it possible to use them through the web. It was developed with the aim of facilitating the usage of the modules, without the need to know about software dependencies and specific configurations. Apart from being accessed by a web-browser, the platform also provides a R...

In Phi-value analysis, the effects of mutations on the folding kinetics are compared with the corresponding effects on thermodynamic stability to investigate the structure of the protein-folding transition state (TS). Here, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations (totaling 0.65 ms) have been performed for a large set of single-point mutants of a 20-residue three-stranded antiparallel beta-sheet pep...

It is considered that a number of factors, such as the external social structure, language proficiency, and relative knowledge of the content domain, affect interaction. Therefore, one of the participants is thought to play a more important role in interaction and to dominate the conversation. However, some studies have illustrated that both participants in a conversation actively contribute to...

Abstract This study conceptually replicated and extended Reid, Trofimovich, O’Brien (2019), who found that native English speakers could be biased positively (or negatively) relative to a control condition in terms of how they rate non-native speech. Our internet-based failed replicate Reid et al. across wider population sample “native” ( n = 189). Listeners did not change rated speech after so...

Urban novel ecosystems were sampled across vacant sites in two Portuguese urban regions. The flora studied with a focus on species’ origin, life form, ecological, chorological and naturalisation types. A multivariate constrained ordination technique was used to identify relationships between plant composition environmental factors. vegetation of the regions shows differences, highlighting biome...

As part of the PADAPT project, authors compiled invasion biological database alien vascular flora Hungary, which contains nativeness, residence time, introduc- tion mode and status 878 or cryptogenic taxa. In absence adequate evidence, classification some species was only possible into uncertain, transitional cat- egories. The definitions most categories are compatible with several internationa...


 This article offers reflections arising from my three-year field research with the Ukrainian diaspora in two Canadian cities. Drawing on this experience, I present body as a tool and impact of work performed by ethnographer’s body. discuss multi-sensory experience participation, which are inter- twined increasingly important issue positionality field, – view utopian freedom to choose or ...

Despite continued critique of the idea of clear boundaries between scientific and lay knowledge, the 'deficit-model' of public understanding of ecological issues still seems prevalent in discourses of biodiversity management. Prominent invasion biologists, for example, still argue that citizens need to be educated so that they accept scientists' views on the management of non-native invasive sp...