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Direct linkBeal, 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
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
Peer reviewedAhn, 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
Download full textWilhelm, Christopher – 1992
A great deal of disagreement exists as to whether the writing systems of the Brahmi family of scripts from Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent and the Hangul script of Korea should be classified as alphabets or syllabaries. Both have in common a mixture of syllabic and alphabetic characteristics that has spawned vigorous disagreement among…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Foreign Countries, Language Classification, Written Language
Shapiro, Michael C.; Schiffman, Harold F. – 1975
This work attempts to provide an overview of linguistic diversity in South Asia and to place this diversity in a cultural context. The work tries to describe the current state of knowledge concerning socially conditioned language variation in the subcontinent. Each of five major language families contains numerous mutually intelligible and…
Descriptors: Asian Studies, Bilingualism, Burmese, Code Switching (Language)
KRADER, LAWRENCE – 1963
THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THIS VOLUME IS TO INTRODUCE THE READER TO THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND CULTURES OF CENTRAL ASIA, WITH A SECONDARY FOCUS ON THE CHANGES WHICH TOOK PLACE DURING THE PERIODS OF TSARIST AND SOVIET RULE. CHAPTERS ARE ARRANGED IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER--(I) ECOLOGY AND ECONOMY, (II) LANGUAGES, WITH APPENDED INFORMATION ON TURKIC…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Area Studies, Asian History, Communism
