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Sui, Yanyan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Native speakers of Standard Chinese have significant difficulty judging the prominence of words with tones in a consistent way. How then can metrical structure in the language be diagnosed? This study approaches the question by investigating how metrical structure interacts with other aspects of phonology, especially tone; what foot type is used…
Descriptors: Chinese, Suprasegmentals, Phonology, Phonetics
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Bogush, Alla; Korolova, Tetiana; Popova, Oleksandra – Advanced Education, 2019
The paper presents the research on the effectiveness of the future translator and / or interpreter training using modern methods which facilitate the development of their professional competency in bilateral interpreting. The authors analyse psychological and pedagogical experience, modern educational technologies and prospects for future…
Descriptors: Translation, Phonetics, Audio Equipment, Teaching Methods
Butler, Becky Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This dissertation explores a purportedly unusual word type known as the "sesquisyllable," which has long been considered characteristic of mainland Southeast Asian languages. Sesquisyllables are traditionally defined as "one and a half" syllables, or as one "major" syllable preceded by one "minor" syllable,…
Descriptors: Syllables, Language Research, Intonation, Suprasegmentals
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Ploquin, Marie – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2013
Chinese tones are associated with a syllable to convey meaning, English pitch accents are prominence markers associated with stressed syllables. As both are created by pitch modulation, their pitch contours can be quite similar. The experiment reported here examines whether native speakers of Chinese produce, when speaking English, the Chinese…
Descriptors: Chinese, English, Intonation, Suprasegmentals
Bishop, Jason Brandon – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A primary function of prosody in many languages is to convey information structure--the "packaging" of a sentence's content into categories such as "focus", "given" and "topic". In English and other West Germanic languages it is widely assumed that focus is signaled prosodically by the location of a…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Phonetics, Phonology, Sentence Structure
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Kaimaki, Marianna – Language and Speech, 2012
Results arising from a prosodic and interactional study of the organization of everyday talk in English suggest that news receipts can be grouped into two categories: valenced (e.g., "oh good") and non-valenced (e.g., "oh really"). In-depth investigation of both valenced and non-valenced news receipts shows that differences in their prosodic…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Intonation, Phonetics, Phonology
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Chen, Hsueh Chu – English Language Teaching, 2016
A realistic goal of pronunciation teaching in the second language context is to acquire comfortably intelligible rather than native-like pronunciation. To establish a set of teaching and learning priorities necessary for English teachers and students whose first language is Chinese, the purposes of this study are three fold: (1) Identify the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pronunciation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Miller, Julia Colleen – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation is an investigation of acoustic properties of lexical tone in two dialects of Dane-zaa (Athabaskan). The noteworthy mirror-image tone systems of the H-marked Doig and L-marked Halfway dialects provide a unique opportunity to explore intrinsic differences in how pitch manifests in specific environments. The dissertation has three…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Acoustics, Phonetics, Dialects
Kidder, Emily – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Yucatec Maya (YM) is an indigenous language of Mexico that features both phonemic tonal distinctions and phonemic vowel length. These features are primarily associated with the phonetic cues of pitch and duration, which are also considered the primary correlates of stress in language. Though scholars have noted the existence of stress or accent…
Descriptors: Mayan Languages, Suprasegmentals, Foreign Countries, Native Speakers
Namjoshi, Jui – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The present research examines whether adults who learn a second language (L2) mainly in a classroom setting can develop linguistic representations that are qualitatively similar to those of native speakers for linguistic content that is not explicitly taught in the classroom. It does so by focusing on the domains of speech processing and speech…
Descriptors: French, Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Intonation
Ramadoss, Deepti – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation studies the perception of tones in Thai, and aims to contribute to a formal characterization of speech perception more generally. Earlier work had argued that perception of tones involves retrieval of some abstract "autosegmental" representation provided by the phonology, while another line of work had argued for the…
Descriptors: Thai, Phonology, Phonetics, Tone Languages
Law, Wai Ling – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In diglossic contexts, when speakers typically use two different languages on a regular basis, bilingual speakers display a wide array of attitudes towards each of their languages and associated cultures (Galindo, 1995) and such variability in attitudes can affect their linguistic behaviors (Lambert, Hodgson, Gardner & Fillenbaum, 1960).…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Phonetics, Dialects, Language Attitudes
Applebaum, Ayla Ayda Bozkurt – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study provides a systematic phonetic analysis of the basic entities of Kabardian prosodic units above the word and investigates the predictability of prosodic units from grammatical and discourse factors. This dissertation is the first extensive description of Kabardian prosody and grammar based on natural data. This study proposes that…
Descriptors: Grammar, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Language Research
Butler, Lynnika – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Among the many ways in which sounds alternate in the world's languages, changes in the order of sounds (metathesis) are relatively rare. Mutsun, a Southern Costanoan language of California which was documented extensively before the death of its last speaker in 1930, displays three patterns of synchronic consonant-vowel (CV) metathesis. Two of…
Descriptors: Language Research, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Semantics
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Broesch, Tanya L.; Bryant, Gregory A. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2015
When speaking to infants, adults typically alter the acoustic properties of their speech in a variety of ways compared with how they speak to other adults; for example, they use higher pitch, increased pitch range, more pitch variability, and slower speech rate. Research shows that these vocal changes happen similarly across industrialized…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Mothers, Syllables
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