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Zhang, Yuan; Baills, Florence; Prieto, Pilar – Language Teaching Research, 2020
Though research has shown that rhythmic training is beneficial for phonological speech processing, little empirical work has been carried out to assess whether rhythmic training in the classroom can help to improve pronunciation in a second language. This study tests the potential benefits of hand-clapping to the rhythm of newly learned French…
Descriptors: Language Rhythm, Teaching Methods, French, Second Language Learning
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Wu, Yan – English Language Teaching, 2019
The traditional focus of English phonetic teaching in China has consistently been on the segmental acquisition, which is mainly highlighting the pronunciation of vowels and consonants, while its suprasegmental knowledge in speech naturalness, coherence and understanding is relatively insufficient. In addition, Chinese students have a serious…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Kargas, Niko; López, Beatriz; Morris, Paul; Reddy, Vasudevi – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2016
Purpose: To date, the literature on perception of affective, pragmatic, and grammatical prosody abilities in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has been sparse and contradictory. It is interesting to note that the primary perception of syllable stress within the word structure, which is crucial for all prosody functions, remains relatively unexplored…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Syllables
Lu, Lu – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation examines the interface between music and language in "Huju", which is a Shanghai dialect based regional opera. Chapter I is a short introduction. Chapter II presents a thorough review of the studies on linguistic tone and music tune, and provides descriptive background information about "Huju" and Shanghai…
Descriptors: Music, Intonation, Dialects, Linguistic Theory
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Schwanenflugel, Paula J.; Benjamin, Rebekah George – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
The purpose of the study was to determine whether the lexical compounding, suffixation, and part of speech aspects of lexical prosody rendered while reading text aloud are predictive of children's developing oral reading fluency and reading comprehension skills. Ninety-four third grade children were recorded while reading aloud a grade-level…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills
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Wade-Woolley, Lesly – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
Phonemic and prosodic awareness are both phonological processes that operate at different levels: the former at the level of the individual sound segment and the latter at the suprasegmental level across syllables. Both have been shown to be related to word reading in young readers. In this study we examine how these processes are differentially…
Descriptors: Phonemic Awareness, Suprasegmentals, Phonology, Reading Processes
Kaden, Christiane – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Many languages have processes which lengthen or shorten a vowel or consonant. In this dissertation, I concentrate on Open Syllable Lengthening, Closed Syllable Shortening, Monosyllabic Lengthening and Trochaic Lengthening, and present a formal model which captures these lengthenings and shortening as the insertion, deletion or reassignment of a…
Descriptors: German, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Syllables
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Shport, Irina A.; Redford, Melissa A. – Journal of Child Language, 2014
This study investigated the integration of word- and phrase-level prominences in speech produced by twenty-five school-aged children (6;2 to 7;3) and twenty-five adults. Participants produced disyllabic number words in a straight count condition and in two phrasal conditions, namely, a stress clash and non-clash phrasal context. Duration and…
Descriptors: Speech, Young Children, Adults, Syllables
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Mirfatemi, Fatemeh; Sadeghi, Amir; Niyazi, Mitra P. – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2020
Supra-segmental features refer to various forms of intonation and how words and sentences are uttered. Such features challenge meaning and comprehension, too. Despite the importance of these features and their reported association with phonological awareness and linguistic comprehension, their effects on reading comprehension have not been…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Liu, Dan – English Language Teaching, 2017
Compared with the study of acquisition of syntax and morphology, there is a relative lack of research on the acquisition of phonology, the L2 acquisition of word stress in particular. This paper investigates the production of word stress by 70 Chinese college students in their reading aloud. Altogether 350 minutes' recordings were collected and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Murray, Elizabeth; McCabe, Patricia; Ballard, Kirrie J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2015
Purpose: This randomized controlled trial compared the experimental Rapid Syllable Transition (ReST) treatment to the Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme-Third Edition (NDP3; Williams & Stephens, 2004), used widely in clinical practice in Australia and the United Kingdom. Both programs aim to improve speech motor planning/programming for children…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Speech Impairments, Children, Syllables
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Chen, Jenn-Yeu; O'Séaghdha, Pádraig G.; Chen, Train-Min – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Convergent evidence suggests that syllables play a primary and distinctive role in the phonological phase of Mandarin Chinese word production. Specifically, syllables are selected before other phonological components and guide subsyllabic encoding. The proximity of phonological syllables to word representations in Chinese languages ensures that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Mandarin Chinese, Syllables
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Pelzl, Eric; Lau, Ellen F.; Guo, Taomei; DeKeyser, Robert – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
It is commonly believed that second language (L2) acquisition of lexical tones presents a major challenge for learners from nontonal language backgrounds. This belief is somewhat at odds with research that consistently shows beginning learners making quick gains through focused tone training, as well as research showing advanced learners achieving…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intonation
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Smotrova, Tetyana – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2017
The study examines the teacher and student gesture employed in teaching and learning suprasegmental features of second language (L2) pronunciation such as syllabification, word stress, and rhythm. It presents microanalysis of video-recorded classroom interactions occurring in a beginner-level reading class in an intensive English program at a U.S.…
Descriptors: Pronunciation Instruction, Nonverbal Communication, Teaching Methods, Suprasegmentals
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Gut, Ulrike; Pillai, Stefanie – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2014
Various researchers have shown that second language (L2) speakers have difficulties with marking information structure in English prosodically: They deviate from native speakers not only in terms of pitch accent placement (Grosser, 1997; Gut, 2009; Ramírez Verdugo, 2002) and the type of pitch accent they produce (Wennerstrom, 1994, 1998) but also…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Phonetics
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