On the margins of perception - TO-clauses: a standard construction of perception verbs? by Christelle LACASSAIN-LAGOIN

“…Three varieties of English – British, American and Canadian English – are thus compared so as to identify: how frequently TO-infinitivals occur as complements; which verbs take this type of complement; and in which variety and in which register they are frequently used. …”
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Media representations of COVID-19 public health policies: assessing the portrayal of essential health services in Canadian print media by Ubaka Ogbogu, Lorian Hardcastle

“…Methods Mixed-method content analysis of 67 articles published in major Canadian English language newspapers between March 23 and April 1, 2020. …”
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I was being sarcastic!: The effect of foreign accent and political ideology on irony (mis)understanding by Veranika Puhacheuskaya, Juhani Järvikivi

“…English native speakers (N = 96) listened to dialogs between Canadian English speakers and their foreign-accented peers, rating targets on multiple scales (irony, certainty in the speaker's intent, appropriateness, and offensiveness). …”
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A Musical Approach to Speech Melody by Ivan Chow, Steven Brown

“…We tested the validity of this approach by recording native speakers of Canadian English reading unfamiliar test items aloud, spanning from single words to full sentences containing multiple intonational phrases. …”
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Pilot of a Tailored Dance Intervention to Support Function in People With Cognitive Impairment Residing in Long-Term Care: A Brief Report by Hannah M. O’Rourke PhD, Souraya Sidani PhD, Charlene H. Chu PhD, Mary Fox PhD, Katherine S. McGilton PhD, Jhonna Collins BSc

“…Using a single-group repeated measures design, this pilot study explored the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects of a Waltz-based dance intervention delivered to 13 Canadian, English-speaking, long-term care residents with mild to moderate cognitive impairment. …”
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Are scores on English and French versions of the PHQ-9 comparable? An assessment of differential item functioning. by Erin Arthurs, Russell J Steele, Marie Hudson, Murray Baron, Brett D Thombs, (CSRG) Canadian Scleroderma Research Group

“…The PHQ-9 can reasonably be used without adjustment in Canadian English- and French-speaking samples. Analyses assessing measurement equivalence should be routinely conducted prior to pooling data from English and French versions of patient-reported outcome measures.…”
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A Lexico-syntactic Analysis of Usages in Nigerian English: A Validation of its culturally Determined Context of Situation by Ayodeji Olumide Ogunjobi, DennisAdebayo Akindutire

“…In the course of the study, it was discovered that Nigerian English is a variety of the English Language like Australian English, Canadian English, etc. which are also part of the world's new Englishes born out of the cultural experience of the people and their attempt to express in clear terms their experiences. …”
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Finite disappointment, infinite hope? The association between political orientations and sources of hope by Edward Bell, Julie Aitken Schermer

“…Study 1 employed a nationally representative sample of Canadian English-speaking adults (N = 866), who completed the Locus-of-Hope Scale (Bernardo, 2010) that measures the extent to which trait hope comes from four different sources: from oneself as an individual; from one's family; from peers; and from one's sense of spirituality or religious faith. …”
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The altruistic lobbyists by Van Rooy, A

Monitoring Users’ Behavior: Anti-Immigration Speech Detection on Twitter by Nikolaos Pitropakis, Kamil Kokot, Dimitra Gkatzia, Robert Ludwiniak, Alexios Mylonas, Miltiadis Kandias

“…To tackle this, we collected and manually annotated an immigration-related dataset of publicly available Tweets in UK, US, and Canadian English. In an empirical study, we explored anti-immigration speech detection utilizing various language features (word n-grams, character n-grams) and measured their impact on a number of trained classifiers. …”
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The effects of different voice qualities on the perceived personality of a speaker by Sara Pearsell, Daniel Pape

“…This work investigates how laryngeal and supralaryngeal voice quality variations of a speaker affect listeners' perceived personality traits (and thus perceived charisma) of that same speaker. Six Canadian English speakers produced paragraphs varying the following voice qualities: modal, creaky, breathy (natural and artificial), (hyper-)nasalization, and smiling (natural and extreme). …”
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HONORIFIC TITLES IN BRITISH ENGLISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH by Julia B Yuryeva

“…English is a global language and the term “English as an International Language” (EIL) corresponds to British English (BrE), American English (AmE), Canadian English (CanE), and Australian English (AusE). …”
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Rasch model of the GAIN substance problem scale among inpatient and outpatient clients in the city of São Paulo, Brazil by Heloísa Garcia Claro, Márcia Aparecida Ferreira de Oliveira, Ivan Filipe de Almeida Lopes Fernandes, Janet C. Titus, Rosana Ribeiro Tarifa, Thais Fernandes Rojas, Paula Hayasi Pinho

“…Conclusions: The results were compatible with those from Rasch analyses of the American English and Canadian English versions of the scale. The Portuguese version of the SPS is, thus, valid for use in Brazil, both with men and women in inpatient and outpatient programs.…”
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Comprehending Adverbs Of Doubt And Certainty In Health Communication: A Multidimensional Scaling Approach by Norman S. Segalowitz, Norman S. Segalowitz, Marina M. Doucerain, Renata F.I. Meuter, Yue eZhao, Julia eHocking, Andrew G. Ryder, Andrew G. Ryder

“…Study 2 replicated the results with Canadian English speakers on the same task. Semantic analyses and stress decomposition analysis were performed on the Australian and Canadian data sets, revealing similarities and differences between the two groups. …”
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Management of veterinary anaesthesia and analgesia in small animals: A survey of English-speaking practitioners in Canada. by Sophie Lalonde, Geoffrey Truchetti, Colombe Otis, Guy Beauchamp, Eric Troncy

“…<h4>Conclusions and clinical relevance</h4>A proportion of surveyed Canadian English-speaking general practitioners do not follow current small animal anaesthesia and analgesia guidelines, but practitioners working in referral centres are closer to meet these recommendations.…”
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English-Speaking Adults' Labeling of Child- and Adult-Directed Speech Across Languages and Its Relationship to Perception of Affect by Melanie Soderstrom, Marisa Casillas, Megan Gornik, Alexis Bouchard, Sarah MacEwan, Anahita Shokrkon, John Bunce

“…Here, we examined Canadian English-speaking adults' ability to discriminate child-directed from adult-directed speech samples from two dissimilar language/cultural communities; an urban Farsi-speaking population, and a rural, horticulturalist Tseltal Mayan speaking community. …”
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Canadian governments policy on Ukrainian immigration in the 1910s – 1930s by Olga Sukhobokova

“…The scientific novelty of the study is to consider Canada’s immigration policy towards Ukrainians in the 1910s and 1930s in terms of its political and economic development, using mainly Canadian English-language sources and literature. Conclusions. …”
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WORD STRESS MOSAIC OF GLOBAL ENGLISH: PLACEMENT AND PERCEPTION VARIANCE by Shevchenko, T.I., Romanova, E.Yu.

“…American English is noted for an iambic pattern in disyllables of French origin. Canadian English demonstrated a slightly higher percentage of American patterns than British (41.7 vs. 36.1%) and a number of original Canadian ones (22.2%), predominantly with secondary stresses. …”
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French and English Phonologies in Contact: The Case of Montreal English by Julie Rouaud

“…Therefore, there is reason to wonder about a potential influence of French on varieties of Canadian English that are in contact with French, from a lexical as well as a phonological point of view. …”
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Magnitude of phonetic distinction predicts success at early word learning in native and non-native accents by Paola eEscudero, Catherine T. Best, Christine eKitamura, Karen E. Mulak

“…However, this difficulty may not apply to all minimal-pair novel words. While Canadian English (CE) 15-month-olds failed to respond to a switch from the newly learned word DEET to the novel nonword DOOT, they did notice a switch from DEET to DIT (Curtin, Fennell, & Escudero, 2009). …”
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