Voice quality and L2 proficiency in the English tense-lax contrast

Experimental studies of the English contrasts between high vowels (sometimes referred to as a tense-lax contrast) have shown that phonation characteristics may play a role in maintaining the opposition in native Cartridges varieties: tense vowels in English have been found to show a greater degree of breathiness, while lax vowels exhibit a stiffer

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Genome‐wide association studies of fruit quality traits in jujube germplasm collections using genotyping‐by‐sequencing

Abstract Chinese jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) is an important fruit crop and harbors many highly diverse traits of potential economic importance.Fruit size, stone size, and fruit cracking have an important influence on the commercial value of jujube.This study is the first to conduct a genome?wide association study (GWAS) on 180 accessions of juj

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