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Islands and Captivity in Popular Culture

A Critical Study of Film, Television and Literature

By: Laura J. Getty

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Islands and Captivity in Popular Culture

A Critical Study of Film, Television and Literature

By: Laura J. Getty

The choices that individuals make in moments of crisis can transform them. By focusing on fictional characters trapped on fictional islands, the book examines how individuals react when forced to make hard choices within the liminal space of a "prison" island. At stake is the perception of choice: do characters believe that they have the power to choose, or do they think that they are at the mercy of fate? The results reveal certain patterns--psychological, historical, social, and political--that exist across a variety of popular/public cultures and time periods. This book focuses on how the interplay between liminality and the Locus of Control theory creates dynamic sites of negotiated meaning. This psychological concept has never before been used for literary analysis. Offered here as an alternative to the defects of Freudian psychology, the Locus of Control theory has been proven reliable in thousands of studies, and the results have been found, with few exceptions, to be consistent in both women and men. That consistency is explored through close readings of islands found in popular culture books, films, and television shows, with suggestions for future research.

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McFarland

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1476680248

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Human and Automatic Speaker Recognition over Telecommunication Channels

By: Laura Fernández Gallardo

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Human and Automatic Speaker Recognition over Telecommunication Channels

By: Laura Fernández Gallardo

This work addresses the evaluation of the human and the automatic speaker recognition performances under different channel distortions caused by bandwidth limitation, codecs, and electro-acoustic user interfaces, among other impairments. Its main contribution is the demonstration of the benefits of communication channels of extended bandwidth, together with an insight into how speaker-specific characteristics of speech are preserved through different transmissions. It provides sufficient motivation for considering speaker recognition as a criterion for the migration from narrowband to enhanced bandwidths, such as wideband and super-wideband.

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178

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Springer

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9812877274

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9789812877277

Second Language Speech

Theory and Practice

By: Laura Colantoni,Jeffrey Steele,Paola Escudero

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Second Language Speech

Theory and Practice

By: Laura Colantoni,Jeffrey Steele,Paola Escudero

Second language acquisition has rapidly grown as a field over the past decade, as our knowledge of the ways in which children and adults learn and use a second language has become crucial for effective language teaching. In addition to this important 'applied' function, research into second language acquisition has also informed the fields of linguistics and psychology in general, as it has shed light on the differences between native and non-native models of human language and cognition. The focus of this accessible new book is second language speech - that is, how speakers perceive, process, understand and pronounce the sounds of a second language. Each chapter includes review questions, and most chapters include 'tutorial' and 'lab' sections with practical exercises based on the University of Toronto Romance Phonetics Database (available online for free). The book also has a companion website, containing illustrated answers to the exercises, scripts for running acoustic analyses and useful weblinks.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316368254

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Islands and Captivity in Popular Culture

A Critical Study of Film, Television and Literature

By: Laura J. Getty

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A Critical Study of Film, Television and Literature

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Islands and Captivity in Popular Culture

Islands and Captivity in Popular Culture

Human and Automatic Speaker Recognition over Telecommunication Channels

Human and Automatic Speaker Recognition over Telecommunication Channels

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