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Acoustic Similarity of Inner and Outer Circle Varieties of Child-Produced English Vowels
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Coy, Andre; Watson, Stefan – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: This article compares acoustic data of normally developing children from two dominant and one nondominant variety of English in order to determine phonetic proximity. Method: The study focuses on one variety of American English (AE), one British English (BE) variety, and one Jamaican English (JE) variety owing to the historical and…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Phonetics, Language Variation, North American English
Leaving Obligations Behind: Epistemic Incrementation in Preschool English
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Cournane, Ailís; Pérez-Leroux, Ana Teresa – Language Learning and Development, 2020
Does language development drive language change? A common account of language change attributes the regularity of certain patterns to children's learning biases. The present study examines these predictions for change-in-progress in the use of "must" in Toronto English. Historically, modal verbs like "must" start with root…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Usage, Verbs, Language Variation
The Development of Sociolinguistic Competence across the Lifespan: Three Domains of Regional Dialect Perception
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Dossey, Ellen; Clopper, Cynthia G.; Wagner, Laura – Language Learning and Development, 2020
This study investigated the developmental trajectories of three perceptual domains related to regional dialect competence: the linguistic domain, tested through an intelligibility in noise task; the objective indexical domain, tested through locality judgments and a free classification task; and the subjective indexical domain, tested through…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Dialects, Task Analysis, Auditory Discrimination
Identification of English Vowels by Non-Native Listeners: Effects of Listeners' Experience of the Target Dialect and Talkers' Language Background
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Lee, Shinsook; Kang, Jaekoo; Nam, Hosung – Second Language Research, 2022
This study investigates how second language (L2) listeners' perception is affected by two factors: the listeners' experience with the target dialect -- North American English (NAE) vs. Standard Southern British English (SSBE) -- and talkers' language background: native vs. non-native talkers; i.e. interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit…
Descriptors: Dialects, Vowels, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
The Role of Intonation in Language Discrimination by Infants and Adults
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Vicenik, Chad Joseph – ProQuest LLC, 2011
It has been widely shown that infants and adults are capable of using only prosodic information to discriminate between languages. However, it remains unclear which aspects of prosody, either rhythm or intonation, listeners attend to for language discrimination. Previous researchers have suggested that rhythm, the duration and timing of speech…
Descriptors: Intonation, Auditory Discrimination, North American English, Acoustics
Speaking Rates of American and New Zealand Varieties of English
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Robb, Michael P.; Maclagan, Margaret A.; Chen, Yang – Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2004
Various acoustic measures of speaking rate were calculated for 40 adult speakers of New Zealand English (NZE). These measures were then compared to a group of 40 adult speakers of American English (AE). Results of the analysis identified significantly faster overall speaking rate and articulation rate for the NZE group compared to the AE group. No…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, English, Language Variation