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Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading. The ...

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A study from Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences revisits a long-standing idea in language science that speech sounds from one's native language elicit stronger brain responses than ...

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Abstract: This paper presents the analysis of vowel phonemes of Punjabi. It shows formant analysis of vowels produced by speakers of Punjabi as a first language from Punjab. Comparison and analysis ...

@wangkenpu Thank you for the update! I've been testing it and it's looking much better. I'm seeing both characters I noted previously coming through correctly as well as the r-colored vowels. One ...

ABSTRACT: This study undertakes a comparative analysis of the consistency between phonology and orthography as well as the absence of vowel phonemes in the first language in English language textbooks ...