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Direct linkKonnerth, Linda Anna – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Karbi is a Tibeto-Burman (TB) language spoken by half a million people in the Karbi Anglong district in Assam, Northeast India, and surrounding areas in the extended Brahmaputra Valley area. It is an agglutinating, verb-final language. This dissertation offers a description of the dialect spoken in the hills of the Karbi Anglong district. It is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sino Tibetan Languages, Grammar, Geographic Regions
Jangjamras, Jirapat – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study investigated the effects of first language prosodic transfer on the perception and production of English lexical stress and the relation between stress perception and production by second language learners. To test the effect of Thai tonal distribution rules and stress patterns on native Thai speakers' perception and production of…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Evidence, Acoustics, North American English
Peer reviewedVan Lancker, D.; Fromkin, V. A. – Journal of Phonetics, 1978
American English speakers, divided into musically untrained and trained groups, show no ear advantage for pitch contrasts which are recognized by speakers of Thai, when presented in a linguistic context. The only effect of musical training is an enhancement of left ear accuracy for pitch contrast recognition. (Author/SW)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Aural Learning, Cerebral Dominance, Language Patterns
Maddieson, Ian – York Papers in Linguistics, 1991
A study investigated the validity of three theories in predicting the structure of language tone systems containing level tones. The theories include the following: that (1) phonetic elements are arranged so they are maximally separated in a fixed phonetic space; (2) a system with a larger number of phonetic elements will use a larger phonetic…
Descriptors: African Languages, Bilingualism, Foreign Countries, Hausa
Download full textFromkin, Victoria A. – 1974
This paper examines the problem of whether tonal representation should be considered segmental or suprasegmental. Woo's hypothesis that tone features are to be specified segmentally is discussed as well as Leben's statement that in some languages tone is suprasegmental. The following are criteria suggested as a basis for tonal representation:…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Intonation, Language Patterns
Pike, Kenneth L. – 1945
The material in this book is the result of an investigation to determine how to teach English intonation effectively and to find the smallest number of patterns which could be used as a basis for initial drills in the language. The book presents a statement of the structure of the English intonation system in relation to the structural systems of…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Intonation
