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Tejada, Laura – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation examines floating tones and tone gesture deactivation in Sierra Juarez Zapotec (SJZ), and provides an Optimality Theoretic account of tonal spreading and placement using insights from Articulatory Phonology. While the data portion of the dissertation is drawn from SJZ, the approach has broader implications for theories of tonal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Phonology
Orozco, Cecilio – 1987
In 1985, the Global Method of Structural Analysis (GMSA) for teaching reading was introduced to first and second graders in Mexico. Breaking away from the more traditional educational methods, it established a basis for more flexible education and effectively utilized critical thinking skills. The preparation stage (reading readiness) begins in…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Beginning Reading, Critical Thinking, Foreign Countries
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Lope Blanch, Juan M. – Revista de Filologia Espanola, 1967
Spanish spoken in Mexico City is influenced considerably more by indigenous dialects than by archaic or present usage of peninsular Spanish. Six areas in particular fall under this influence: (1) the phoneme "s", treated as a palative and fricative sound, (2) voiced "s", which is dental alveolar and affricate, (3) "t"…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies
Saint Damian, Banisa; Valentine, Carol Ann – 1984
A study explored the universality of widely accepted descriptors of the ideal speaking voice in cross-gender and cross-cultural perspective. To construct and contrast the ideal voice types, university students from Mexico and Arizona described the ideal voice type under consideration and completed a semantic differential indicating the collective…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Attitudes, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis
Linares, Thomas A. – 1981
The purpose of the research was to develop an articulation test for Spanish-speakers and to field-test the instrument in both a monolingual Spanish-speaking environment and a bilingual Spanish/English environment. Such a test is needed because there has been little available to enable the diagnostician, whose clientele includes Spanish-speakers,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Bilingual Education, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context
Stark, Thomas C. Smith; Garcia, Fermin Tapia – 1986
An analysis of Amuzgo, a language within the Otomanguean family of Mexico, suggests that it is an active-static language with patterns similar but not parallel to those of Chocho. In the report, data on the characteristics of Chocho are summarized, theory and research on active-static languages is reviewed, and the data on Amuzgo are presented.…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Articulation (Speech), Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics