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Hattori, Noriko – Language Variation and Change, 1998
By examining data on historical changes in pitch accent plus data from present-day speech analysis, the article concludes that suprasegmental changes are in progress in both Japanese and English languages. Although English and Japanese use different phonetic resources to implement accentuation, vacillation in their respective suprasegmental…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Diachronic Linguistics, Dictionaries, English
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Quene, Hugo; Koster, Mariette L. – Language and Speech, 1998
Examines metrical segmentation strategy in Dutch. The first experiment shows that stress strongly affects Dutch listeners' ability and speed in spotting Dutch monosyllabic words in disyllabic nonwords. The second experiment finds the same stress effect when only the target words are presented without a subsequent syllable triggering segmentation.…
Descriptors: College Students, Dutch, Foreign Countries, Measurement Techniques
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Davis, Barbara L.; MacNeilage, Peter F.; Matyear, Christine L.; Powell, Julia K. – Child Development, 2000
Compared disyllabic sequences from infants and adults according to their use of frequency, intensity, and duration to mark stress. Concluded that infants in English language environments produce adult-like stress patterns before they produce lexical items, which specify stress. Acoustic and perceptual analyses indicated infants use three acoustic…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Adults, Age Differences, Comparative Analysis
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Goffman, Lisa – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1999
In this study, seven children with specific language impairment (SLI) and speech deficits were matched with same age peers and evaluated for iambic (weak-strong) and trochaic (strong-weak) prosodic speech forms. Findings indicated that children with SLI and speech deficits show less mature segmental and speech motor systems, as well as decreased…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Language Acquisition, Language Impairments, Phonology
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Peter, Beate; Stoel-Gammon, Carol – Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2005
Impaired speech prosody has been identified as a critical feature of suspected childhood apraxia of speech (sCAS). Lexical stress productions of children with sCAS have been characterized as 'excessive/equal/misplaced'. This investigation examines two potential explanations of this particular deficit, articulatory difficulty and impaired intrinsic…
Descriptors: Music, Children, Speech Impairments, Suprasegmentals
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Friederici, Angela D.; Alter, Kai – Brain and Language, 2004
Spoken language comprehension requires the coordination of different subprocesses in time. After the initial acoustic analysis the system has to extract segmental information such as phonemes, syntactic elements and lexical-semantic elements as well as suprasegmental information such as accentuation and intonational phrases, i.e., prosody.…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Language Processing, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Syntax
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Paul, Rhea; Augustyn, Amy; Klin, Ami; Volkmar, Fred R. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2005
Speakers with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) show difficulties in suprasegmental aspects of speech production, or "prosody," those aspects of speech that accompany words and sentences and create what is commonly called "tone of voice." However, little is known about the perception of prosody, or about the specific aspects of…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Perception
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Bryant, Gregory A.; Fox Tree, Jean E. – Language and Speech, 2005
Research on nonverbal vocal cues and verbal irony has often relied on the concept of an "ironic tone of voice". Here we provide acoustic analysis and experimental evidence that this notion is oversimplified and misguided. Acoustic analyses of spontaneous ironic speech extracted from talk radio shows, both ambiguous and unambiguous in…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Speech, Figurative Language, Negative Attitudes
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Chavez, Monika – Modern Language Journal, 2007
Previous research indicates that foreign language learners are much more focused on accuracy, particularly grammatical accuracy, than their teachers are. The purpose of the current study was to gain a more detailed understanding of American learners' views of the need for accuracy in the oral production of a foreign language (German) by (a)…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Grammar, Second Language Learning, German
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Titterington, Jill; Henry, Alison; Kramer, Martin; Toner, Joe G.; Stevenson, Mike – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2006
In this study the influence of prosodic foot structure on the processing of weak syllables in children with cochlear implants (CI) was investigated. A battery of tests investigating processing of weak syllables in single and multiword utterances was carried out on four groups of children: 15 children with CI developing spoken language as expected…
Descriptors: Speech, Oral Language, Deafness, Assistive Technology
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Braun, Bettina – Language and Speech, 2006
It is acknowledged that contrast plays an important role in understanding discourse and information structure. While it is commonly assumed that contrast can be marked by intonation only, our understanding of the intonational realization of contrast is limited. For German there is mainly introspective evidence that the rising theme accent (or…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Sentences, Phonetics, Scaling
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Lee, Borim; Guion, Susan G.; Harada, Tetsuo – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2006
The production of unstressed vowels in English by early and late Korean- and Japanese-English bilinguals was investigated. All groups were nativelike in having a lower fundamental frequency for unstressed as opposed to stressed vowels. Both Korean groups made less of an intensity difference between unstressed and stressed vowels than the native…
Descriptors: Korean, Japanese, Bilingualism, Vowels
Hamano, Shoko – 1998
This study explores sound-symbolic, or mimetic, words in the Japanese language, the majority of which are never entered in Japanese dictionaries, and which may not be fully understood in all their nuances by native speakers. The extensiveness of the sound-symbolic system is related to the semantic under-differentiation of Japanese verbs. An…
Descriptors: Ideography, Japanese, Language Patterns, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
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Goad, Heather – 1989
A study investigated the order of acquisition of inflectional morphology in English within morphemes, focusing on late acquisition of one allomorph of the plural. It is proposed that late acquisition is rooted in the operation of the Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP), which states that at the melodic level, adjacent identical elements are…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Grammar
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d'Eugenio, Antonio – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1975
Both Italian and English have four degrees of stress: emphatic, main, secondary and weak. This paper outlines some similarities, then reviews differences between the languages that can cause difficulties in learning the second language. (CHK)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Contrastive Linguistics, English, Intonation
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