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Simon, Ellen – Second Language Research, 2009
This study examines the acquisition of the English laryngeal system by native speakers of (Belgian) Dutch. Both languages have a two-way laryngeal system, but while Dutch contrasts prevoiced with short-lag stops, English has a contrast between short-lag and long-lag stops. The primary aim of the article is to test two hypotheses on the acquisition…
Descriptors: Cues, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, Indo European Languages
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Wolfson, Nessa – Language in Society, 1976
In research on the historical present tense, neither interviews nor tape-recorded group sessions proved neutral or adequate. An explanation is found in the notion of a speech event, and simple techniques of participation are advocated. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Interviews, Language Research, Observation, Research Methodology
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Poyatos, Fernando – Language and Communication, 1991
A case is made for the increased study of paralinguistic voice qualifiers, which include variations in breathing, laryngeal, esophageal, pharyngeal, velopharyngeal, lingual, labial, mandibular, articulatory, articulatory tension, and objectual control. It is proposed that attention to these voice qualities has a variety of practical, literary,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Diction, Information Utilization, Language Research
KENNEDY, NANCY M. – 1960
THE DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED BY SPEAKERS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH IN ATTEMPTING TO MASTER THE PRONUNCIATION OF EGYPTIAN ARABIC WERE ANALYZED DURING THE REPORTED RESEARCH. THE LANGUAGE UNDER CONSIDERATION WAS THE URBAN COLLOQUIAL ARABIC OF THE EGYPTIAN DELTA. THIS STUDY DEALT WITH THE SEGMENTAL PHONEMES ONLY, WITH SOME REFERENCE TO STRESS AND…
Descriptors: Arabic, Diction, Language Instruction, Language Research
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Poyatos, Fernando – Language Sciences, 1982
Examines the various aspects of natural conversation in order to provide a theoretically comprehensive schema that accounts for a conversation's structure. Aspects considered are: (1) speaker-listener initial and turn-change behavior; (2) the listener's speaker-directed behavior; (3) interlistener and simultaneous behaviors; and (4) the function…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns, Language Research, Paralinguistics
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Egido, Carmen; Cooper, William E. – Journal of Phonetics, 1980
Experiments were conducted to examine the influence of syntactic boundaries on the operation of a phonological rule in speech production. Results indicate that traditional metrics of boundary strength, as well as linguistic formulations of phonological rules, must be elaborated to recognize the special status of clause boundaries and deletion…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Research, Phonetics, Phonology
BURLING, ROBBINS; FRIEDRICH, PAUL – 1964
SEVERAL EXPLORATIONS WERE MADE INTO THE STRUCTURE OF MEANING IN BURMESE AND RUSSIAN. VARIOUS KINDS OF LINGUISTIC INFORMATION WERE ISOLATED BY TEXTUAL STUDY AND INTERVIEWS WITH NATIVE SPEAKERS. DISCUSSION COVERED SUCH THEORETICAL QUESTIONS AS (1) SYNCHRONY AND DIACHRONY, (2) SEMANTICS AND GRAMMAR, (3) SEMANTICS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE, (4) SEMANTICS…
Descriptors: Burmese, Cognitive Processes, Language Patterns, Language Research
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Lepetit, Daniel – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1985
A study of the order of acquisition and fossilization of several French forms by anglophone students focused on the intonative aspect of interlanguage and the transfer of learning from one language to another. (MSE)
Descriptors: French, Interlanguage, Intonation, Language Research
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Wagner, Klaus R. – Journal of Child Language, 1985
Describe studies in which day-long recordings were made of nine-year-old children's spontaneous speech. Results indicate that: (1) children aged five to 15 speak some 20,000 words of discourse per day in about two to three hours of pure speaking time; (2) they have an active vocabulary of some 3,000 word-form types. (SED)
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Language Research
Martin, Graham D. C. – Neueren Sprachen, 1973
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Language Research, Language Usage, Monetary Systems
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Barton, David; Macken, Marlys A. – Language and Speech, 1980
Provides evidence that in producing voiceless stops in terms of voice-onset-time values, children first overshoot adult values and then only gradually draw back toward adult values. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Research, Language Styles, Oral English
Howe, Mary – 1991
Conversations are cooperatively achieved speech events. In introducing a new topic, there are specific procedures followed to close the old topic. Because these procedures take place over a series of utterances, both/all participants must cooperate to close a topic. Analysis of conversations among adults who know each other suggests that there are…
Descriptors: Adults, Cooperation, Discourse Analysis, Interpersonal Communication
Ryan, Robert W. – 1981
This study identifies the phonological system in the idiolects of three native speakers of the Acadian dialect in southwest Nova Scotia, on the coast of Baie Sainte-Marie. The study also highlights the specificity of the phonological system by comparing it with the speech of Acadians in Moncton, New Brunswick and with standard French. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Consonants, Dialect Studies, French
BAILEY, BERYL L.; GUSSOW, JOAN – 1965
THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN AGREED THAT THE BASIC LANGUAGE GOAL FOR DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN SHOULD BE LITERACY IN STANDARD ENGLISH SO THAT THEY WILL BECOME EMPLOYABLE. THEY ALSO FELT THAT ATTENTION SHOULD BE GIVEN TO HOW LIMITED LANGUAGE USAGE CONSTRAINS THE CHILDREN'S INTELLECTUAL…
Descriptors: Conferences, Disadvantaged Youth, Language Acquisition, Language Research
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Kinloch, A. M. – English Quarterly, 1972
Descriptors: Grade 9, Language Patterns, Language Research, National Surveys
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