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Agostinelli, Christina – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In this dissertation we examine the effects of pronunciation instruction on the perception of a novel L2 contrast. The novel contrast in this case is the glottal fricative which results in Spanish from the suppression buccal gestures of /s/ in the word-medial coda position. This process which occurs in Spanish, but not English is known as…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Pronunciation, Student Attitudes
Erker, Daniel Gerard – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examines a major linguistic event underway in New York City. Of its 10 million inhabitants, nearly a third are speakers of Spanish. This community is socially and linguistically diverse: Some speakers are recent arrivals from Latin America while others are lifelong New Yorkers. Some have origins in the Caribbean, the historic source of…
Descriptors: Spanish, Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Phonemes
Dinkin, Aaron Joshua – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The eastern half of New York State is a dialectologically diverse region around which several dialect regions converge--the Inland North, New York City, Western New England, and Canada. These regions differ with respect to major parameters of North American English phonological variation; and therefore the interface between them is of interest…
Descriptors: Dialects, Phonemes, Phonology, Inferences
Murray, Maria S. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Recent evidence suggests that invented spelling is valuable in predicting reading development, revealing which prereading skills children possess and still need to learn, and promoting development of early literacy skills. The purpose of this study was to investigate the ability of letter-sound knowledge, phoneme awareness, and word reading…
Descriptors: Evidence, Phonemes, Regression (Statistics), Urban Schools