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Oetting, Janna B.; Garrity, April Wimberly – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
Purpose: This study examined whether child speakers of Southern African American English (SAAE) and Southern White English (SWE) who were also perceived by some listeners to present a Cajun/Creole English (CE) influence within their dialects produced elevated rates of 6 phonological and 5 morphological patterns of vernacular relative to other…
Descriptors: Phonology, Language Variation, Child Language, Ethnicity
Breen, Walter – 1989
A discussion of the nature and process of phonological changes taking places in languages looks specifically at the merging of allophones and the reorganization of phonemes in response to pressures within the phonological system. The hypotheses of economy and reorganization are used to analyze the process of change within a phonological system.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Variation, Models
IANNUCCI, DAVID; AND OTHERS
THE PURPOSE OF THIS RESEARCH WAS TO EXPLORE SOME OF THE VARIABLES THAT INFLUENCE INTRAINDIVIDUAL PHONETIC VARIATION IN CERTAIN ASPECTS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH SPEECH. FORTY COLLEGE STUDENTS PARTICIPATED IN THE EXPERIMENT. EACH PERFORMED TWO TASKS--(1) READING ALOUD WORDS (16 IN EACH OF FIVE CATEGORIES) FROM FLASHCARDS AS PART OF AN OSTENSIBLE LEARNING…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Language, Language Research, North American English
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Pfaff, Carol W. – 1972
Four realizations of the copula occur in English, two in both Anglo and Black English and two in Black English and in some varieties of Anglo English but not in standard English. This paper describes the use of the copula in English and identifies the phonological, syntactic, and semantic factors which are believed to condition its realization in…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialects, Language Patterns, Nonstandard Dialects
McMillan, James B. – 1971
This bibliography of Southeastern American English includes writings that have appeared in popular books, technical treatise, language journals, popular magazines, special-interest periodicals, student theses, and dissertations. The South is defined as the area south of the Mason-Dixon Line and the Ohio River westward to Arkansas and East Texas.…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Dictionaries, Figurative Language, Folk Culture
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Hieke, A. E. – Language Sciences, 1989
In the absence of a comprehensive theory of the spoken language, the exploration of dynamic phonotactics--of actual running speech--can contribute to the understanding of oral language properties. Information based on spoken language data may also have fundamental implications for second-language learning. (24 references) (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Consonants, Language Research, North American English
Willis, Clodius – 1969
These experiments investigated and described intra-subject, inter-subject, and inter-group variation in perception of synthetic vowels as well as the possibility that inter-group differences reflect dialect differences. Two tests were made covering the full phonetic range of English vowels. In two other tests subjects chose between one of two…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Artificial Speech, Auditory Perception, Dialect Studies
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Johnson, Lawrence – Linguistics, 1975
Deals with the shift of the low-back vowel as in 'caught' to a low-central vowel as in 'cot' thereby merging such pairs as caught/cot, dawn/Don, and stalk/stock. The causes and the sociolinguistic implications of this shift are discussed. The majority of the informants were from West Los Angeles. (TL)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Usage, North American English
Vernick, Judy; Nesgoda, John – 1980
This book, designed to teach American English sounds and spellings to beginning and intermediate level English as a second language (ESL) students, provides practice with all the meaningful sounds of a "standard" American dialect that will be understood nearly everywhere in the English speaking world. It contains an introductory lesson…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), North American English, Phonology, Postsecondary Education
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Menyuk, Paula – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1968
This investigation studied (1) the acquisition and proportion of correct usage of consonants of Japanese and American children, (2) the consonant substitutions of children developing normal language and of children with articulation problems, and (3) confusion in adults' recall of consonants. A system of distinctive features (gravity, diffuseness,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Consonants, Distinctive Features (Language), Japanese
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Suzuki, Peter T. – Anthropological Linguistics, 1977
Language and communication are not composed solely of traditional words. Sounds of a language also affect intercultural understanding and communication. (Author/HP)
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Cross Cultural Studies, Dutch, Expressive Language
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Dubois, Betty – Reading Improvement, 1977
Examines specific issues that are related to teaching a standard dialect. Suggests that the most efficient solution to the problem is to alter teacher preparation to allow reading in the learner's dialect. Discusses the difficulties in effecting such a solution. (RL)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Secondary Education, Language Standardization, North American English
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Singh, Sadanand; Woods, David R. – Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1971
Research supported by a grant from the National Institute of Health. (VM)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Distinctive Features (Language)
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Frazer, Timothy C. – Language in Society, 1983
A study of 51 speakers in rural Illinois showed fronting and raising of (aw) to be considerably more advanced among countryside dwellers than among town residents. Discusses some of the social and economic changes contributing to this phonological shift. (EKN)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Language Attitudes, Language Research, Language Usage
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Clopper, Cynthia G.; Pisoni, David B. – Language and Speech, 2004
Two groups of listeners learned to categorize a set of unfamiliar talkers by dialect region using sentences selected from the TIMIT speech corpus. One group learned to categorize a single talker from each of six American English dialect regions. A second group learned to categorize three talkers from each dialect region. Following training, both…
Descriptors: Sentences, Dialects, North American English, Perception
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