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Cox, Christopher; Dideriksen, Christina; Keren-Portnoy, Tamar; Roepstorff, Andreas; Christiansen, Morten H.; Fusaroli, Riccardo – Child Development, 2023
This study compared the acoustic properties of 26 (100% female, 100% monolingual) Danish caregivers' spontaneous speech addressed to their 11- to 24-month-old infants (infant-directed speech, IDS) and an adult experimenter (adult-directed speech, ADS). The data were collected between 2016 and 2018 in Aarhus, Denmark. Prosodic properties of Danish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Speech Communication, Infants
Davidsen-Nielsen, Niels – 1977
Since 1971 the approach adopted in the teaching of English phonetics in Denmark has been a contrastive one. In this paper it is argued that although the original contrastive hypothesis (Lado 1957) has to be modified and weakened, a contrastive approach is highly useful in learning and teaching the pronunciation of a foreign language. Selected…
Descriptors: Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, Danish, Distinctive Features (Language)