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Direct linkSo, Connie K.; Best, Catherine T. – Language and Speech, 2010
This study examined the perception of the four Mandarin lexical tones by Mandarin-naive Hong Kong Cantonese, Japanese, and Canadian English listener groups. Their performance on an identification task, following a brief familiarization task, was analyzed in terms of tonal sensitivities (A-prime scores on correct identifications) and tonal errors…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Tone Languages, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese
Peer reviewedHo-Dac, Tuc – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1997
Analysis of English stress patterns and perceptual pattern of the six Vietnamese tones in code-switching reveals a significant proportion of the high tone group at the point of switching. This, together with the phonological compatibility between Vietnamese tones of high- and mid-level pitch and English stressed/unstressed syllable patterns,…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Contrastive Linguistics, English, English (Second Language)
Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon. – 1990
Five papers on linguistics contained in this issue include the following: "Tones for Profoundly Deaf Tone-Language Speakers" (Teresa Y. C. Ching), a study using a simplified speech pattern approach to enhance perception of tonal contrasts in Cantonese; "Word Formation and the Limits of Analytic Equivalence" (Peter Crisp), a…
Descriptors: Chinese, Deafness, Dialects, English
Download full textDooley, Robert A., Ed.; Marshall, David F., Ed. – 1992
Four working papers from the 1992 Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota session, are presented. The first, "English Borrowing in Thai as Reflected in Thai Journalistic Texts," by James Kapper, looks at patterns of the influence of the English language on Thai. It is concluded that English has permeated Thai culture…
Descriptors: Bantu Languages, English, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Hume, Elizabeth, Ed.; And Others – Working Papers in Linguistics, 1995
Papers in comparative and historical linguistics are presented. "The Independent Development of Mid Tone in Suma" (Mary Bradshaw) extends earlier research on tone change in Gbaya languages to Suma, a Gbaya language previously not included. "Diachronic Morphology: An Overview" (Brian Joseph) reviews diachronic morphological…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, English
Fox, Barbara A., Ed.; Jurafsky, Dan, Ed.; Michaelis, Laura A., Ed. – 1999
Selected papers include: "From Core to Periphery: A Study on the Directionality of Syntactic Change in Japanese" (Kaoru Horie); "On the Extension of Body-Part Nouns to Object-Part Nouns and Spatial Adpositions" (Yo Matsumoto); "Noun Classes: Language Change and Learning" (Maria Polinsky, Dan Jackson);…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Bikol, Caregiver Speech, Child Language
Ho, Dah-an, Ed.; Tseng, Chiu-yu, Ed. – 1994
This publication of proceedings, most in English and some in Chinese, of a conference on Chinese languages and linguistics include the following papers: "On Rule Effect and Dialect Classification" (Chin-Chuan Cheng); "Cross-Linguistic Typological Variation, Grammatical Relations, and the Chinese Language" (Bernard Comrie);…
Descriptors: Affixes, Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
