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Of "Ens" "n" "Ands": Observations on the Phonetic Make-Up of a Coordinator and Its Uses in Talk-in-Interaction
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Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar – Language and Speech, 2012
In grammar books, the various functions of "and" as phrasal coordinator and clausal conjunction are treated as standard knowledge. In addition, studies on the uses of "and" in everyday talk-in-interaction have described its discourse-organizational functions on a more global level. In the phonetic literature, in turn, a range of phonetic forms of…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Form Classes (Languages), Interaction, North American English
Transcribing the Speech of Children with Cochlear Implants: Clinical Application of Narrow Phonetic Transcriptions
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Teoh, Amy P.; Chin, Steven B. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2009
Purpose: The phonological systems of children with cochlear implants may include segment inventories that contain both target and nontarget speech sounds. These children may not consistently follow phonological rules of the target language. These issues present a challenge for the clinical speech-language pathologist who uses phonetic…
Descriptors: Speech, Phonetics, Phonetic Transcription, Speech Language Pathology
Practices in Other-Initiated Repair Resolution: The Phonetic Differentiation of "Repetitions"
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Curl, Traci S. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2005
This study presents a phonetic analysis of repetitions occurring in other-initiated repair sequences in American English. Despite their lexical similarities, the repairs are shown to have 2 distinct phonetic patterns. These patterns correspond systematically with a sequential and interactional difference between fitted and disjunct trouble source…
Descriptors: North American English, Phonetics, Error Correction, Phonetic Analysis
Voice Quality Settings and the Teaching of Pronunciation.
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Esling, John H.; Wong, Rita F. – TESOL Quarterly, 1983
Voice quality settings (physiological configurations contributing to phonetic production) can be used to characterize ESL students' accents and help improve pronunciation. Settings of one variety of North American English and those in other languages are identified. Suggestions are given for making students aware of their own settings. (MSE)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Variation, North American English, Phonetics
Relativization Strategies in Earlier African American Vernacular English.
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Tottie, Gunnel; Rey, Michel – Language Variation and Change, 1997
Examines the system of relative markers in early African American English as documented in the Ex-Slave Recordings. Found a higher incidence of zero marking in adverbial than in nonadverbial relatives. The lack of "wh"-relatives found, as well as this frequency of zero subject relatives, is interpreted as evidence that African American…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Black Dialects, Data Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics
Babbling of Twins in a Bilingual Environment.
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Zlatic, Larisa; Macneilage, Peter; Matyear, Christine L.; Davis, Barbara L. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1997
Examines the phonetic characteristics of babbling by a pair of fraternal twins raised in a bilingual environment (English/Serbian). The study focused on the basic articulatory form of babbling, the impact of twinship on babbling patterns, and whether effects specific to one or another of the ambient languages could be observed. (30 references)…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Family Environment