Biggest world insurance companies and their international activities by A. A. Khabarov

“…The study is dedicated to the biggest insurance companies in the world by total revenue volume and market capitalization and to their strategies of international development. American, English and Chinese international insurance companies are developing their international operations via brunch network and agencies all over the world. …”
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Applied English Phonology / by Yavaş, Mehmet S., author 521241

“…Expanded sections explore topics such as contracted forms, issues in consonant and vowel transcription conventions, and regional dialects of American English. Written by an internationally recognized scholar and educator, Applied English Phonology, Fourth Edition is essential reading for anyone in applied phonetics and phonology courses, as well as students and practitioners in areas of language and linguistics, TESOL, and communication sciences and disorders"--…”

Swedish Youths as Listeners of Global Englishes Speakers With Diverse Accents: Listener Intelligibility, Listener Comprehensibility, Accentedness Perception, and Accentedness Accep... by Hyeseung Jeong, Anna Elgemark, Bosse Thorén

“…However, with their preference for American English and its popular culture, it is uncertain whether Swedish youth learners are developing these key linguistic qualities to be prepared for the globalized use of English. …”
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The image of Russia through animal metaphors: A diachronic case study of American media discourse by Olga A. Solopova, Don Nilsen, Alleen Nilsen

“…They were analyzed within particular contexts: American English, culture and media discourse. The research data were drawn from dictionaries and corpora. …”
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Comparative study of voice onset time in English word-initial stop consonants produced by Uzbek and American speakers of English by Urazbaev, Khikmatullo, Sukhrobbekov, Sherzod

“…The purpose of this study is to shed light on a comparative study of Voice Onset Time (VOT) values produced by Uzbek speakers of English and native speakers of American English. The study aimed to determine significant differences in terms of the VOT value in pronunciation of voiced and voiceless stop consonants in word-initial positions. …”
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“Ash” [æ] sound then and now: An overview of the current state of knowledge by Barbara Grobelna

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Road Infrastructure & Technology / by Palma, Ayden author 643861

“…Road transport (British English) or road transportation (American English) is transport on roads of passengers or goods. …”
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Mechanical Transmission / by Quintana, Kennith author 643837

“…In British English the term transmission refers to the whole drive train, including gearbox, clutch, prop shaft (for rear-wheel drive), differential and final drive shafts. In American English, however, the distinction is made that a gearbox is any device which converts speed and torque, whereas a transmission is a type of gearbox that can be "shifted" to dynamically change the speed:torque ratio, such as in a vehicle. …”
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Behavioral Pattern Analysis between Bilingual and Monolingual Listeners’ Natural Speech Perception on Foreign-Accented English Language Using Different Machine Learning Approaches... by Md Tanvir Ahad, Md Manjurul Ahsan, Ishrat Jahan, Redwan Nazim, Munshi Md. Shafwat Yazdan, Pedro Huebner, Zahed Siddique

“…Considering this opportunity, this study investigates Bengali–English bilinguals and native American English monolinguals’ behavioral patterns on foreign-accented English language considering bubble noise, gaussian or white noise, and quiet sound level. …”
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Australian English listeners' perception of Japanese vowel length reveals underlying phonological knowledge by Kakeru Yazawa, James Whang, Paola Escudero

“…However, the literature on vowel perception by English listeners shows a marked bias toward American English, with the phonological diversity among different varieties of English largely overlooked. …”
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Sociolinguistic Variation In The Acquisition Of A Phonological Rule by Lee, Hikyoung

“…This paper examines the extent to which 1st to 2nd generation Koreans in the U.S. have acquired the norms for the distinctive North American English flapping rule. First, quantitative analyses are conducted to test the significance of sociolinguistic variables such as immigrant generation, length of stay in the U.S., age of arrival to the U.S., and sex. …”
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Attitudinal Judgments of Dialect Traits and Colorism in African Americans by Akiah Watts

“…Audio was attached to each photo, which contains traits of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) in the case of the male and Standard American English for the female. The results suggest African-American females are more likely to experience colorism in professional traits while African-American males are more likely to experience colorism in social traits. …”
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Stratégies d’accommodation en anglais américain : le cas de l’interro-négative by Pauline Levillain

“…This study attempts to observe and analyse the accommodation strategies developed by speakers of American English in interaction. It aims at accounting for the use of this complex structure syntactically-speaking, combining both interrogation with negation, and analysing its semantic/pragmatic contribution to the strategies pursued by speakers, especially their accommodation strategies. …”
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Halt for Speaking by Hansun Waring, Carol Hoi Yee Lo

“…Based on two large corpora of video-recorded family interactions and adult ESL classroom interactions in American English, this conversation analytic study demonstrates how halts of eating and drinking are carefully configured to preserve contiguity by facilitating completion and repair. …”
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Usage labels network: an approach to lexical variation by Danko Šipka

“…Lexicographers, in their turn, have been forced to address it in order to provide dictionary usage information, which is normally done by means of dictionary labels such as: American English, obsolete, slang , etc. An insightful overview of the relevant lexicological approaches, as well as some lexicographis projects is provided in Lipka (1990). …”
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'Vergeet de hartstocht niet', de zin van gevoeligheid in de politieke geschiedenis by C. Santing

“…Departing from recent American, English and German ‘emotion-studies’, this article proposes to systematically take the public expression, use and meaning of feelings into consideration, thereby arriving at a broader, more rounded view of political history.…”
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Le discours rapporté dans un corpus d’anglais oral : formes et frontières by Sylvie HANOTE

“…It is based on the acoustic analysis of an oral corpus drawn from the radio (BBC Radio for British English and National Public Radio for American English) which has been compiled at Poitiers University. …”
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Understanding St. Louis’ Love for Hoosier by Daniel Duncan

“… While the American English demonym hoosier refers to Indiana residents, it means “poor, rural, white trash” in St. …”
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Sounds About White: Critiquing the NCA Standards for Public Speaking Competency by Adam Key

“…Highlighting NCA’s emphasis on “suitable” and “appropriate” forms of communication and the use of Standard American English, I argue that the ideal competent speaker in our classrooms sounds White. …”
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Uptalk, Vocal Fry and, Like, Totally Slang: Assessing Stylistic Trends in American Speech by Tadeusz Lewandowski

“…This paper examines linguistic debates surrounding new stylistic conventions in American English, namely the use o f uptalk (speaking statements with a sing note at the end, as in a question), vocal fry (the injection o f creaky, glottal vibrations at the end o f words), and the increasing appearance o f slang in the United States school system. …”
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