The initiation of sound change requires the emergence of innovated variants. One possible source of innovated variants is non-faithful transference of linguistic features during accommodation to a received speech signal. If the subphonemic cues associated with a phonological contrast are realized differently in an accommodating speaker's speech than in both the speaker's previous speech and in ...

antibiotic resistance is an important problem in antibiotic treatment of infections, particularly in hospitals. tomatidine is a plant secondary metabolite with antimicrobial and antifungal effects. this study examined the possible synergistic effect tomatidine with several antibiotics against standard and clinical strains of staphylococcus aureus, enterococcus faecalis, pseudomonas aeruginosa a...