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The Segments and Tones of Soyaltepec Mazatec
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Beal, Heather D. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation describes the segments and tones of Soyaltepec Mazatec, an Oto-Manguean language of southern Mexico virtually undescribed in the literature with the exception of Pike (1956). The preliminary work done by Pike and subsequent analyses by Goldsmith (1990) and Pizer (1994) are reviewed giving evidence that the system is complex and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Morphemes, Syllables, Phonemes
"Cultura"-Inspired Intercultural Exchanges: Focus on Asian and Pacific Languages
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Chun, Dorothy M., Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2014
Although many online intercultural exchanges have been conducted based on the groundbreaking Cultura model, most to date have been between and among European languages. This volume presents several chapters with a focus on exchanges involving Asian and Pacific languages. Many of the benefits and challenges of these exchanges are similar to those…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Computer Mediated Communication, Language Classification
The Relationship between Students' Accent Perception and Accented Voice Instructions and Its Effect on Students' Achievement in an Interactive Multimedia Environment
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Ahn, Jeahyeon; Moore, David – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2011
The purpose of this study is to investigate how the instructor's accent influences the students' learning outcome, as well as how a student's accent perceptions may affect their learning. Unlike native voices, accented voices are not natural to the native speakers; therefore, it requires more cognitive resources for processing the information,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Learning Experience, Native Speakers