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Hisagi, Miwako; Strange, Winifred – Language and Speech, 2011
American listeners' perception of Japanese contrasts of vowel length (e.g., kiro vs. kiiro), consonant length (e.g., kite vs. kitte) and syllable number/length (e.g., kjoo vs. kijoo) was examined. Stimuli consisted of sentence-length utterances produced by a native Japanese talker; five minimal pairs of each contrast type were included. Questions…
Descriptors: Vowels, Phonology, North American English, Japanese
Lee, Sooyeon – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation examines the influence of L2 orthographic representation on the phonological development of American English speakers learning Korean, addressing specifically the syllabification and resyllabification of Korean intervocalic obstruents and the intervocalic liquid phoneme. Although Korean and English both employ alphabetic writing…
Descriptors: Korean, North American English, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Kehoe, Margaret – Journal of Child Language, 2011
Stoel-Gammon (this issue) highlights the close and symbiotic association that exists between the lexical and phonological domains in early linguistic development. Her comprehensive review considers two bodies of literature: (1) child-centred studies; and (2) studies based on adult psycholinguistic research. Within the child-centred studies, both…
Descriptors: Phonology, North American English, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism
Kuo, Christina – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The core objective of this study was to examine whether acoustic variability of vowel production in American English, across speaking tasks, is systematic. Ten male speakers who spoke a relatively homogeneous Wisconsin dialect produced eight monophthong vowels (in hVd and CVC contexts) in four speaking tasks, including clear-speech, citation form,…
Descriptors: Acoustics, North American English, Vowels, Phonology
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Velleman, Shelley L.; Pearson, Barbara Zurer – Topics in Language Disorders, 2010
B. Z. Pearson, S. L. Velleman, T. J. Bryant, and T. Charko (2009) demonstrated phonological differences in typically developing children learning African American English as their first dialect vs. General American English only. Extending this research to children with speech sound disorders (SSD) has key implications for intervention. A total of…
Descriptors: North American English, Black Dialects, Phonology, Differences
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Mordaunt, Owen G. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2011
This article provides a brief description of the linguistic features of African-American English (AAE) and reviews the positions that have been taken up about its role in American education, ranging from those in which AAE is seen as an obstacle to the education of black children to those in which it becomes a language that is different from…
Descriptors: African American Children, Black Dialects, Models, North American English
Zhang, Hang – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation explores the second language acquisition of Mandarin Chinese tones by speakers of non-tonal languages within the framework of Optimality Theory. The effects of three L1s are analyzed: American English, a stress-accent language; Tokyo Japanese, a lexical pitch accent language; and Seoul Korean, a non-stress and non-pitch accent…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Transfer of Training, Phonology, Intonation
Cagle, Keith Martin – ProQuest LLC, 2010
American Sign Language (ASL) is the natural and preferred language of the Deaf community in both the United States and Canada. Woodward (1978) estimated that approximately 60% of the ASL lexicon is derived from early 19th century French Sign Language, which is known as "langue des signes francaise" (LSF). The lexicon of LSF and ASL may…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, American Indians, Deafness, French
Kennedy, Kristen M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examines the acquisition of target-like patterns of variation by 22 American learners of French during study abroad (SA) in France and correlates such acquisition with the creation of dense, multiplex, exchange-based social networks (Milroy 1980) with native speakers (NSs) during the SA period. In this longitudinal study, naturalistic…
Descriptors: French, Second Language Learning, Form Classes (Languages), North Americans
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Bleses, Dorthe; Basboll, Hans; Lum, Jarrad; Vach, Werner – Journal of Child Language, 2011
In her interesting article, Stoel-Gammon (this issue) reviews studies concerning the interactions between lexical and phonological development. While the focus of the review is on vocabulary production from children acquiring American English, she also suggests that cross-linguistic research be undertaken to examine how universal and…
Descriptors: Language Research, Phonetics, Phonology, Vocabulary Skills
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Pearson, Barbara Z.; Velleman, Shelley L.; Bryant, Timothy J.; Charko, Tiffany – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2009
Purpose: This study provides milestones for phonological development in African American English (AAE) speakers who are learning Mainstream American English (MAE) as a second dialect. Method: The Dialect Sensitive Language Test (DSLT; H. Seymour, T. Roeper, & J. G. de Villiers, 2000) was administered to a nationwide sample of typically developing…
Descriptors: Phonology, Development, African American Children, North American English
Dinkin, Aaron Joshua – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The eastern half of New York State is a dialectologically diverse region around which several dialect regions converge--the Inland North, New York City, Western New England, and Canada. These regions differ with respect to major parameters of North American English phonological variation; and therefore the interface between them is of interest…
Descriptors: Dialects, Phonemes, Phonology, Inferences
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Preston, Jonathan L.; Edwards, Mary Louise – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2009
Children with residual speech sound errors are often underserved clinically, yet there has been a lack of recent research elucidating the specific deficits in this population. Adolescents aged 10-14 with residual speech sound errors (RE) that included rhotics were compared to normally speaking peers on tasks assessing speed and accuracy of speech…
Descriptors: Speech, Acoustics, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis
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Scharinger, Mathias; Lahiri, Aditi – Language and Speech, 2010
This study examines the role of abstractness during the activation of a lexical representation. Abstractness and conflict are directly modeled in our approach by invoking lexical representations in terms of contrastive phonological features. In two priming experiments with English nouns differing only in vowel height of their stem vowels (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Dialects, Vowels, Phonology, Nouns
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
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