{"title":"High variability phonetic training (HVPT): A meta-analysis of L2 perceptual training studies","authors":"Takumi Uchihara, Michael Karas, Ron I. Thomson","doi":"10.1017/s0272263125100879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0272263125100879","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This meta-analysis of 79 studies evaluates the effectiveness of high variability phonetic training (HVPT) for the development of second language (L2) speech perception and explores learner-related and methodological variables that influence training effects. The overall medium-to-large effects of HVPT on L2 speech perception support the effectiveness of HVPT, for both pretest-posttest comparison (g = 0.92, k = 96) and treatment-control comparison (g = 0.67, k = 32), confirm long-term retention of perception gains, and, to some extent, indicate generalization of learning to novel stimuli. Training effects are influenced by several key variables (length of L2 learning, response labels, type of training task, type of testing task, total training time, target phones, and number of talkers). The findings provide compelling evidence to support the efficacy of HVPT for L2 perceptual learning and suggest circumstances under which training effects are optimized.</p>","PeriodicalId":22008,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Second Language Acquisition","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144211621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two logics of experiment in biology & medicine: mechanistic/pathway versus populational.","authors":"Shiping Tang","doi":"10.1007/s40656-025-00675-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-025-00675-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two competing approaches, namely the New Mechanism/Mechanistic Philosophy and the \"counterfactual + interventionist\" (CF + I) approach, have dominated recent debates in philosophy of science. This article argues that the two approaches are underpinned by two logics of experiment. More concretely, there are two types and hence two logics of experiment in biology and medicine: a mechanism-oriented one and a populational one. The former seeks to identify and establish mechanisms or pathways (including entities, activities, and interactions) behind biological phenomena, whereas the latter seeks to establish whether and how much specific factors or variables impact outcomes at the populational level. These two types of experiment operate upon two different logics, and the word \"experiment\" means quite different things for them. Explicitly differentiating the two logics of experiment yields critical implications for a host of philosophical issues, including whether natural selection is a mechanism and whether the Hodgkin-Huxley model is explanatory.</p>","PeriodicalId":56308,"journal":{"name":"History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences","volume":"47 2","pages":"28"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144217648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Modern ItalyPub Date : 2025-06-04DOI: 10.1017/mit.2025.13
Uoldelul Chelati-Dirar, Nicola Camilleri
{"title":"Challenging race, gender, and class in Fascist and postwar Italy. Biographical notes on Elena Sengal (1911–1962)","authors":"Uoldelul Chelati-Dirar, Nicola Camilleri","doi":"10.1017/mit.2025.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2025.13","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Our essay aims to offer a biography of Elena Sengal (1911–1962), an Italian citizen of Ethiopian origin, whose life offers important elements to better understand both Fascist and postwar Italy. Elena was born into an Italo-Ethiopian family and became an Italian citizen after the naturalisation of her father, Sengal Workneh, a former Italian colonial subject and a lecturer in Amharic and Tigrinya at the Istituto Orientale in Naples. She grew up in Naples where she graduated and later held a teaching position, following in her father’s footsteps. When in 1939 her partner, Guido Cucci, fell in Ethiopia fighting the Ethiopian resistance, Elena found herself alone with a newborn child and struggled to make a living. Her life did not improve with the end of Fascism. Indeed, in postwar Italy it became so unbearable that she relocated to Ethiopia. However, racism and exclusion accompanied her life in the East African country too. This biography is based on archival materials as well as a body of personal letters of Elena Sengal, kindly made available by her granddaughter Maria Elena Cucci.</p>","PeriodicalId":18688,"journal":{"name":"Modern Italy","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144211001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tone Druglitrø, Silje Rebecca Morsman, Kristin Asdal
{"title":"Choreographies of co-modification: instrumentizing cod for immunology and the economy.","authors":"Tone Druglitrø, Silje Rebecca Morsman, Kristin Asdal","doi":"10.1007/s40656-025-00677-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-025-00677-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>How to make sense of the struggle of scientists in their efforts to answer demands to contribute simultaneously to the advancement of science and the economy? The life sciences are understood to be particularly affected by the increased institutional and political expectations to engender scientific innovations and value creation Fochler et al., (Minerva, 54:175-200, 2016). The expectations are often closely linked to the tools that life scientists work with, such as new sequencing technologies or model organisms that are invested with hopes of novelty. The experimental life of the Atlantic cod, which is our object of study, serves here as an entry point for understanding this significant feature of contemporary life sciences. The paper shows how equipping a species to do experimental work is not necessarily about having it perform only one type of job Clarke & Fujimura (1992) or performing in one, and exclusively one, site. On the contrary, an experimental organism may be promising and interesting due to how it can be put to work to perform both in and for science, and in and for the economy, simultaneously. In analyzing the double entendre of experimental work, this paper draws upon the analytical concepts co-modification and choreography that have been carefully crafted in close empirical studies. The notion co-modification is put to work together with the notion of choreography to delineate both the material and semiotic work that go into the drawing together of the inside and outside of the lab and the material arrangements that shape the rhythm of a disciplined and controlled lab site. Together we refer to this as choreographies of co-modification.</p>","PeriodicalId":56308,"journal":{"name":"History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences","volume":"47 2","pages":"29"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144227815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Clifton Pye, Donald N. Stengel, Elena Babatsouli, Hannah S. Sarvasy
{"title":"A Typological Approach to Child Language Research – The Case of Whole-Word Phonology","authors":"Clifton Pye, Donald N. Stengel, Elena Babatsouli, Hannah S. Sarvasy","doi":"10.1017/s0305000925100056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000925100056","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We present the typological approach to child language research. The typological approach places language diversity at the centre of acquisition research, thereby limiting arbitrary adjustments to theory and practice. We apply the typological approach to Ingram’s (2002) measures of whole-word phonological complexity (PMLU) and proximity (PWP). Our generalised PMLUg measure takes into account crosslinguistic variation in word status, including complex predicates and words without vowels. We analysed conversational data from Dutch, English, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Xi’iùy to determine whether two-year-old children target and produce words with significant between-language differences in phonological complexity. We found significant between-language differences in PMLUg for the target and produced words, but not PWPg. Comparing the complexity of the children’s words with the complexity of target words reveals their growth potentials along the syllable and consonant dimensions. Our study begins the cumulative investigation of the features that determine whole-word phonological complexity and proximity crosslinguistically.</p>","PeriodicalId":48132,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Child Language","volume":"260 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144211063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Modern ItalyPub Date : 2025-06-04DOI: 10.1017/mit.2024.72
Iara Meloni
{"title":"No longer silent: the history and memory of women’s roles in the Resistance","authors":"Iara Meloni","doi":"10.1017/mit.2024.72","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2024.72","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article offers a critical rereading of the historiography on the role of women in the Italian Resistance. It starts with the postwar period, marked by a general silence and the prevailing image of women as mothers and <span>staffette</span>. In the 1970s, the first historical elaboration of women’s experiences began in all northern regions, leading to the now iconic concept of the ‘silent Resistance’. In the 1990s, a dialogue developed with other historiographical categories, such as the concept of ‘civil resistance’ developed by Jacques Sémelin and the ‘war on civilians’, but this approach ran the risk of reducing women’s contribution to ‘powerless’ acts. Although today women’s history is fully integrated into the narrative canon of the Resistance, it faces new challenges, such as the confrontation with ‘other’ (mainly non-European) resistances and new public uses of history. The article suggests that women’s history has been, if not the only, then certainly the most important means by which new dimensions of the partisan movement and the Second World War have been brought to the fore, shedding light on the specificities of the conflict experienced by women, but also shaping the very notion of resistance by overcoming a purely militarist vision.</p>","PeriodicalId":18688,"journal":{"name":"Modern Italy","volume":"331 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144211523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maria Elice Brzezinski Prestes (ed.), Understanding Evolution in Darwin's Origin: The Emerging Context of Evolutionary Theory (History, Philosophy, and Theory of the Life Sciences, volume 34), Cham: Springer, 2023, ISBN: 9783031401640, 423 pp.","authors":"Piers J Hale","doi":"10.1007/s10739-025-09823-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-025-09823-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51104,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Biology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144217472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntiquityPub Date : 2025-06-03DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2025.10124
Marcin Danielewski
{"title":"The early medieval stronghold at Grzybowo from the tenth to eleventh centuries","authors":"Marcin Danielewski","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2025.10124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10124","url":null,"abstract":"<p><img href=\"S0003598X25101245_figAb.png\" mimesubtype=\"png\" mimetype=\"image\" orientation=\"\" position=\"float\" src=\"https://static.cambridge.org/content/id/urn%3Acambridge.org%3Aid%3Aarticle%3AS0003598X25101245/resource/name/S0003598X25101245_figAb.png?pub-status=live\" type=\"\"/></p>","PeriodicalId":8058,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"4 1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144202192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LinguaPub Date : 2025-06-03DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103963
Lorenzo Logi , James R. Martin
{"title":"Italian verbal groups: A systemic functional perspective","authors":"Lorenzo Logi , James R. Martin","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103963","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103963","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper presents a Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) description of the verbal group in Italian. The focus of the analysis is on how <span>tense</span>, <span>voice</span>, <span>nuclearity,</span> <span>modality</span> and <span>polarity</span> are structured in Italian verbal groups and realised via pronominal clitics alongside verbs and their inflections. The model deals first with ideational meaning (<span>tense, voice</span> and <span>nuclearity</span>) and then with interpersonal meaning (<span>modality</span> and <span>polarity</span>). Our paper concludes with a brief note on comparable systems and structures in related languages where SFL studies have been carried out (i.e., French, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese). The paper thus addresses a research gap in the study of Romance languages – supplementing it with work on Italian.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"324 ","pages":"Article 103963"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144204657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Suicide Risk Assessments Understood as Medical Rituals: Functions and Implications from Societal and Medico-Ethical Perspectives.","authors":"Antoinette Lundahl","doi":"10.1007/s11673-024-10419-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-024-10419-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The use of suicide risk assessments in individual psychiatric treatment is widespread and, in many countries, mandatory. However, these assessments exhibit poor predictive accuracy and offer limited clinical value. This raises the question of whether non-medical reasons underpin their continued use. In this paper, suicide risk assessments are interpreted as medical rituals-formalized, repetitive behaviours imbued with symbolic significance that fulfil social functions. Several such functions are proposed, including uniting care providers around shared values in suicide prevention, fostering a sense of safety and control over suicidal behaviour, projecting accountability, and signalling to the public that action is being taken. However, this practice may inadvertently lead to an increase in non-beneficial compulsory admissions, flawed prioritization of patients, and the proliferation of defensive medicine. While the ritualistic use of suicide risk assessments may serve important societal purposes, their potential to harm individual patients renders them indefensible from a medico-ethical standpoint.Instead, evidence-based suicide preventive interventions are recommended. These include implementing general safety measures, equipping psychiatric patients with safety plans, and providing effective mental health treatment according to medical needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":50252,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Bioethical Inquiry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144210098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}