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Denizci, Can – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
Language classroom interactions can be characterized as multimodal, since teachers may resort to a variety of resources provided by their body or by their immediate space in order to convey meaning, manage activities and assess pupils' performances. Furthermore, teachers' multimodal practices constitute an essential component for the…
Descriptors: French, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Grandon, Bénédicte; Vilain, Anne; Gillis, Steven – First Language, 2019
This study explores the use of F0, intensity and duration in the production of two types of prominences in French: primary accent with duration as the main acoustic cue, and secondary accent with F0 and intensity as acoustic cues. These parameters were studied in 13 children using a cochlear implant (CI) and 17 children with a normal hearing (NH),…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Acquisition, French, Pronunciation
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So, Connie K.; Best, Catherine T. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2014
This study examined how native speakers of Australian English and French, nontone languages with different lexical stress properties, perceived Mandarin tones in a sentence environment according to their native sentence intonation categories (i-Categories) in connected speech. Results showed that both English and French speakers categorized…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Foreign Countries, English, French
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Gil, Sandrine; Aguert, Marc; Bigot, Ludovic Le; Lacroix, Agnès; Laval, Virginie – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2014
The ability to infer the emotional states of others is central to our everyday interactions. These inferences can be drawn from several different sources of information occurring simultaneously in the communication situation. Based on previous studies revealing that children pay more heed to situational context than to emotional prosody when…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Intonation, Nonverbal Communication, Computer Games
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Millotte, Severine; Rene, Alice; Wales, Roger; Christophe, Anne – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
Two experiments tested whether phonological phrase boundaries constrain online syntactic analysis in French. Pairs of homophones belonging to different syntactic categories (verb and adjective) were used to create sentences with a local syntactic ambiguity (e.g., [le petit chien "mort"], in English, the "dead" little dog, vs.…
Descriptors: Sentences, Form Classes (Languages), Figurative Language, Language Acquisition