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Yoshida, Marla Tritch – TESOL Press, 2016
This engaging text clearly presents essential concepts that teachers need to guide their students toward clearly intelligible pronunciation and more effective communication skills. Based on a sound theoretical background, the book presents practical, imaginative ways to teach and practice pronunciation that go beyond simple "Repeat after…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Pronunciation
Ultan, Russell – 1973
Conditions favoring the development of the three major types of vowel-harmony systems: horizontal, palatal, and labial are examined in terms of correlations between sonority, contiguity, or phonetic distance on the one hand and relative assimilability of vowels on the other. Broadly speaking, the less sonorous, the more contiguous, and the closer…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Contrastive Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Phonetics
Radhakrishnan, R. – 1981
A systematic analysis of the distribution of Nancowry phonological and morphological elements at word level is presented. Included is a systematically transcribed vocabulary which is ordered according to the word roots. In the section devoted to word phonology, included topics are syllabic structure, stress placement, vowel length and nasality,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Austro Asiatic Languages, Consonants, Morphology (Languages)
Baltaxe, Christiane A. M. – 1978
This treatise on the theoretical and historical foundations of distinctive feature theory traces the evolution of the distinctive features concept in the context of related notions current in linguistic theory, discusses the evolution of individual distinctive features, and criticizes certain acoustic and perceptual correlates attributed to these…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)
Rosolack, Mary Nichols – 1975
This book is designed for use by the preschool and kindergarten instructor as an outline for teaching the sound and name of each letter of the alphabet. It may also serve as a speech improvement program for those students who may enter school with one or more articulation errors. The program may be used in other grades as a supplement to classroom…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Training, Curriculum Guides
Hammond, Robert M. – 2001
This book is intended to be an introduction to the sound system of the Spanish language. The book is descriptive in nature and presents a true picture of the language as it is spoken by native speakers from a wide variety of dialect zones. The book is divided into five parts and 25 chapters. Part one, Phonetics and Phonology," includes the…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Articulation (Education), Articulation (Speech), Consonants