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Shih, Ya-ting – ProQuest LLC, 2012
How bilinguals' two languages interact with each other has stimulated considerable research. However, little of this research has focused on objective measures of speech production. This study aims to investigate bilinguals' production of Guoyu and Taiwanese voiceless sibilant fricatives to see how language contact and language dominance influence…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Oral Language
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Rau, D. Victoria; Chang, Hui-Huan Ann; Tarone, Elaine E. – Language Learning, 2009
This study investigates the production of the English interdental fricative [theta] by Chinese learners of English, using a variationist framework. Twenty-seven Chinese participants were asked to evaluate the acceptability of four possible substitutes for the variable (th) and to perform four oral production tasks. The results indicated that…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Languages