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Peer reviewedYe, Yun; Connine, Cynthia M. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1999
Reports the results of three experiments that used vowel and tone monitoring tasks to investigate the role of tone information in processing Mandarin. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Language Processing, Language Research
Download full textSteinberg, Danny D.; Krohn, Robert K. – 1973
To account for vowel alternations in forms such as divine-divinity, Chomsky and Halle propose the Vowel Shift Rule and other rules. This study experimentally assesses the psychological validity and generality of these rules by testing the productivity of vowel alternation. Subjects were required, in a meaningful sentence context, to produce a…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Higher Education, Language Research
Peer reviewedWalz, Joel – French Review, 1980
Presents results of a study that sought to test the pronunciation problems of a large number of American students in a beginning college-level French course. Learner difficulties over a 15-week period were used to create a hierarchy of minimal contrasts representing major, secondary, and minor problems for the students in learning French sounds.…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Error Analysis (Language), French
Fowler, Carol A., Ed. – 1994
This publication (one of a series) contains 14 articles which report the status and progress of studies on the nature of speech, instruments for its investigation, and practical applications. Articles include: "The Universality of Intrinsic FO of Vowels: (D. H. Whalen and Andrea G. Levitt); "Intrinsic F0 of Vowels in the Babbling of 6-,…
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Martlett, Stephen A., Ed.; Meyer, Jim, Ed. – 1994
This collection of eight papers and six "data squibs" (short research findings) are based on topics and languages under study by students and staff of the linguistics program of the University of North Dakota. The papers are: (1) "Dakota Sioux Objects" (Thomas M. Pinson); (2) "The Tapir: A Yanomami Text" (Irma…
Descriptors: African Languages, American Indian Languages, Bantu Languages, Dakota
Ma, Lin – 1994
A study investigated to what extent adult native speakers of Mandarin Chinese learning English as a second language could pronounce the five front vowels of American English, how difficult this was, and which vowels were most difficult. Subjects were 16 Chinese university students and spouses and 16 American students. All subjects were recorded…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Adult Learning, College Students, Contrastive Linguistics
Pack, Alice C., Ed. – 1970
Four issues of "TESL Reporter" are presented. Contents include the following articles: "Feedback: An Anti-Madeirization Compound" by Henry M. Schaafsma; "Using the Personal Pronoun 'I' as a Compound Subject" by G. Pang and D. Chu; "The Consonant'L' in Initial and Final Positions" by Maybelle Chong; "Sentence Expansion for the Elementary Level" by…
Descriptors: Consonants, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
