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Jangjamras, Jirapat – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study investigated the effects of first language prosodic transfer on the perception and production of English lexical stress and the relation between stress perception and production by second language learners. To test the effect of Thai tonal distribution rules and stress patterns on native Thai speakers' perception and production of…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Evidence, Acoustics, North American English
Huang, Becky H.; Jun, Sun-Ah – Language and Speech, 2011
This study reports an exploratory analysis of the age of arrival (AoA) effect on the production of second language (L2) prosody. Three groups of Mandarin-speaking immigrants (N = 10 in each group) with varying AoA in the United States and ten native speakers of English as controls participated in the study. All participants read a paragraph of…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Mandarin Chinese, Native Speakers, North American English
Stauffer, Anna Rachel – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation offers a detailed contrastive analysis of Contemporary Standard Russian and General American English. The guiding principle, that the goal of contrastive analysis should not be as it traditionally has been, i.e., purely pedagogical, but that it should also serve as the basis for general hypotheses of Second Language Acquisition…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Russian, North American English, Linguistic Theory
Lanz, Linda A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation is a reference grammar of the Malimiut Coastal dialect of Inupiaq (ISO: ESI, ESK, IPK), an Eskimo-Aleut language of northwestern Alaska spoken by the Inupiat people. It complements existing descriptions of Inupiaq by filling gaps in documentation. With approximately 2000 speakers, mainly above 50 years of age, Inupiaq is…
Descriptors: Dialects, Phonetics, Form Classes (Languages), Morphology (Languages)
Dumas, Nathaniel William – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Using the Practice Theory Approach to Language, this dissertation examines how social actors use communicative practices within activities to constitute a communicative context that I call the American English Stuttering Speech Community (AESSC). Building on previous linguistic research on stuttering and sociological research on collectives of…
Descriptors: Grammar, Discourse Analysis, Stuttering, Linguistic Theory
An Analysis of the Sonority Hypothesis and Cluster Realization in a Child with Phonological Disorder
Klopfenstein, Marie; Ball, Martin J. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
This study describes the realization of onset and coda clusters in a 4-year old child acquiring American English, and with a higher than usual level of unintelligible speech. It reviews previous studies that have tested cluster realization against markedness and, in particular, the sonority hypothesis. This latter predicts steep rises in sonority…
Descriptors: North American English, Hypothesis Testing, Phonology, Language Processing
Oh, Young-Il – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Function (i.e., grammatical) words very frequently lack word-level stress and display phonetic reduction relative to content (i.e., lexical) words. However, word-class (function vs . content) may not be the only factor that affects phonetic realization of function words; prosodic and syntactic context can also play a significant role in…
Descriptors: Sentences, Phonetics, Oral Language, Acoustics
Eddington, David; Elzinga, Dirk – Language and Speech, 2008
The phonetic context in which word-medial flaps occur (in contrast to [t[superscript h]]) in American English is explored. The analysis focuses on stress placement, following phone, and syllabification. In Experiment 1, subjects provided their preference for [t[superscript h]] or [flapped t] in bisyllabic nonce words. Consistent with previous…
Descriptors: North American English, Language Variation, Computational Linguistics, Phonology
Ranbom, Larissa J.; Connine, Cynthia M. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2007
There have been a number of mechanisms proposed to account for recognition of phonological variation in spoken language. Five of these mechanisms were considered here, including underspecification, inference, feature parsing, tolerance, and a frequency-based representational account. A corpus analysis and five experiments using the nasal flap…
Descriptors: North American English, Word Recognition, Speech, Oral Language
Pantos, Andrew J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this research was to investigate the nature of listeners' attitudes toward foreign-accented speech and the manner in which those attitudes are formed. This study measured 165 participants' implicit and explicit attitudes toward US- and foreign-accented audio stimuli. Implicit attitudes were measured with an audio Implicit…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Auditory Stimuli, Second Language Learning, Tests
Hardman, Jocelyn Brooks – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study investigated the intelligibility of Chinese graduate students to their Indian, Chinese, Korean, and American peers. Specifically, the researcher sought to determine the teaching priorities for English for Academic Purposes in the US, where listeners have a wide variety of native languages. Research on Second Language Acquisition…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Graduate Students, Sentences, Phonology
Goldstein, Brian A. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2007
The effects of dialectal differences upon the speech production skills of children with phonological disorders are poorly understood. One might predict that the phonological profile of children using a radical dialect (e.g., Puerto Rican Spanish, which alters consonants in the syllable rhyme) will differ from that of children who use a…
Descriptors: North Americans, Mexicans, Dialects, Measures (Individuals)
Gogoi, Divya Verma – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Many factors that contribute towards the perception of second language (L2) sounds and the subsequent establishment of L2 phonetic categories have been the focus of past research. However, learning a third language, unlike SLA, may be influenced by additional factors attributed to the presence of two language systems in a bilingual instead of one…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Metalinguistics, Testing, Multilingualism
Hook, Donald D. – IRAL, 1991
The need for an ungendered singular form of the anaphoric pronoun in U.S. English is demonstrated, then an attempt is made to predict its phonological shape. Also discussed are current linguistic inclinations in this area, as well as obstacles to change in a grammatical category ordinarily unamenable to change. (35 References) (JL)
Descriptors: Grammar, North American English, Phonology, Pronouns
Kohler, Candida T.; Bahr, Ruth Huntley; Silliman, Elaine R.; Bryant, Judith Becker; Apel, Kenn; Wilkinson, Louise C. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2007
Purpose: To evaluate the role of dialect on phonemic awareness and nonword spelling tasks. These tasks were selected for their reliance on phonological and orthographic processing, which may be influenced by dialect use. Method: Eighty typically developing African American children in Grades 1 and 3 were first screened for dialect use and then…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, North American English, Spelling, Phonemic Awareness