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Anderson-Hsieh, Janet – CALICO Journal, 1994
Some of the problems in interpreting visual feedback displays of suprasegmentals are identified, and strategies for using this type of feedback are discussed. Problems discussed include pitch display, syllable identification, syllable boundaries and duration determination, and pitch and intensity pattern determination. (25 references) (LB)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, English (Second Language), Feedback, Language Skills
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Gorsuch, Greta J. – System, 2001
Examines the dual challenges teachers often face: (1) testing the theoretical assumptions made by the authors of textbooks; and (2) evaluation of achievement tests that have been developed for use with those textbooks. Addresses these issues in the context of the use of an English-as-a-Foreign/Second-Language pronunciation textbook and achievement…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Pronunciation
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Mahandru, V. K. – English Language Teaching, 1975
Rules for determining word stress for verbs, nouns and adjectives are given as a useful tool for foreign learners of English. (CJ)
Descriptors: Adjectives, English (Second Language), Interference (Language), Language Instruction
Bansal, R. K. – Newsletter, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, 1974
Oral work is considered the most effective way of laying the foundations for language proficiency. Recognition and production of vowels and consonants, use of a pronouncing dictionary, and practice in accent rhythm and intonation should all be included in a pronunciation course. (SC)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), French, Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Lebel, Jean-Guy – 1974
Students of French learn to pronounce the syllables of the same rhythmic group with the same stress and the same intonation while lengthening slightly only the last syllable uttered. Several techniques designed to help students acquire correct French rhythm patterns are described here. They include: (1) counting aloud, (2) syllable division, (3)…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), French, Intonation, Language Instruction
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Munro, Murray J. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1995
Untrained native English listeners assigned foreign accent scores to sentence and narrative utterances produced by native English speakers and Mandarin-speaking learners of English, rendered unintelligible through low-pass filtering. Because the filtered speech stimuli contained little of what could be considered segmental information, results…
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Language Research
Picalause, Isabelle – Francais dans le Monde, 1991
Using French, English, and Hungarian accents, and from 1 to 4 voices, students in a Hungarian French language class dramatized and presented 32 versions of a Guillaume d'Apollinaire poem. Factors that varied in the presentations included the number of participants, recitation patterns, tone of voice, props, and physical movement. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Dramatics, Foreign Countries, French
Hutchinson, Sandra P. – 1973
Two experiments conducted at the University of Texas at Austin are discussed in this paper. One experiment deals with the production of final syllable lengthening and stress in Spanish and English by native Spanish speakers learning English. The other experiment deals with judgments about the Spanish speakers' production of English by native…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), English Curriculum, English (Second Language), Intonation
Pennington, Martha C. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research in Southeast Asia, 1989
Pronunciation is reexamined from a "top-down" perspective that shifts the focus of attention in language instruction from individual phonemes to suprasegmentals and other features of the larger context of utterances, including prosody, phonological fluency, voice quality, and gestures. (57 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Body Language, Distinctive Features (Language), Foreign Countries, Intonation
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Guion, Susan G. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2005
The effects of age of acquisition and native language prosody on the acquisition of English stress patterns were investigated with early and late Korean-English bilinguals (n = 20). Distributional patterns of stress placement based on syllabic structure, distributional patterns of stress placement based on lexical class, and stress patterns of…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Local, John K. – 1986
A study examined final vowel qualities in the speech of seven English speakers from the urban Tyneside area of England. It focused on variations in the pronunciation of the final "y" (e.g., city, happy, tiny) and their explanation by way of (1) the resonance characteristics associated with the articulatory gesture, (2) the…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Dialects, English, Foreign Countries
Wilkenfeld, Deborah – 1980
In silent reading, short-memory tasks, such as semantic and syntactic processing, require a stage of phonetic encoding between visual representation and the actual extraction of meaning, and this encoding includes prosodic as well as segmental features. To test for this suprasegmental coding, an experiment was conducted in which subjects were…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Decoding (Reading), Memory, Nouns
Croft, Kenneth – 1968
This book is intended to serve as a practical introduction both to the phonology of English and to the general practices and techniques used in teaching and learning pronunciation. It is written primarily for the teacher who has had little or no formal exposure to the field of linguistics, but who has an interest in becoming acquainted with some…
Descriptors: English, English (Second Language), Interference (Language), Language Instruction
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Vogel, Irene; Raimy, Eric – Journal of Child Language, 2002
This paper investigates the acquisition of compound vs. phrasal stress ("hot dog" vs. "hot dog") in English. This has previously been shown to be acquired quite late, in contrast to recent research showing that infants both perceive and prefer rhythmic patterns in their own language. Subjects (40 children in four groups the averages ages of which…
Descriptors: Child Language, Foreign Countries, Phonology, Pronunciation
Hochberg, Judith G. – 1987
A study investigated the hypothesis that children learning Spanish as a first language learn rules for assigning stress, as opposed to simply memorizing stress for individual words. The subjects were 50 Spanish-speaking preschool children. In one portion of the experiment, they imitated sets of 2, 3, or 4 Spanish nonsense words that were…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory, Phonetic Analysis
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