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Van Lancker, D.; Fromkin, V. A. – Journal of Phonetics, 1978
American English speakers, divided into musically untrained and trained groups, show no ear advantage for pitch contrasts which are recognized by speakers of Thai, when presented in a linguistic context. The only effect of musical training is an enhancement of left ear accuracy for pitch contrast recognition. (Author/SW)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Aural Learning, Cerebral Dominance, Language Patterns
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Beggs, W. D. A.; Howarth, Philippa N. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Suggests that inner speech is a manifestation of the need to prestructure oral utterances. Among the results, inner speech was found to be acquired by normally developing readers between the ages of 8 and 11, and children comprehended text better when certain prosodic features were made visible on the text. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Oral Reading
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Yue-Hashimoto, Anne O. – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1986
Tonal "flip-flop" (reversal of pitch value in which a direct exchange of value between two items is necessarily involved) can be found in a significant number of modern Chinese dialects, where an opposite pitch pattern is observed for the traditional Yin/Yang dichotomy of tones. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Chinese, Dialect Studies, Distinctive Features (Language)
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Scanlan, Timothy – Foreign Language Annals, 1987
Reviews the different categories of native pauses and describes techniques for incorporating them cautiously into the spoken French of anglophones (especially Americans), suggesting that proper pause behavior is actually a definite mark of authentic sounding and well-controlled speech. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), French, Language Fluency
Martin, Pierre – 1997
The textbook, entirely in French, is an introduction to functional phonology. The first six chapters present the basics of functional phonology, insisting on the specific aspects of this approach for the description of languages. Principles and procedures of synchronic analysis are outlined and illustrated through many examples. Chapter 7 is…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries
Nguyen, Dinh-Hoa – 1997
A descriptive introduction to the Vietnamese language is presented. An introductory chapter gives an overview of the population using Vietnamese, its affiliation with Chinese and other languages, dialects, role in religion, history, writing systems, syllabic structure, and body language. Chapter 2 describes its sound system, syllable boundaries,…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar, Language Patterns, Morphology (Languages)
Prescott, Barbara L. – Online Submission, 1987
One concern in current sociolinguistic theories of language variation is to find dynamic models that integrate rules governing the 'lects' of a language into a unified description of that language. The dynamics of language change in the variations inherent to the Fijian dialect chain have profound implications for language literacy and educational…
Descriptors: Malayo Polynesian Languages, Models, Language Variation, Phonology
Noonan-Wagner, Desley; And Others – TESL Talk, 1981
Discusses several issues related to teaching suprasegmentals to learners of English as a second language. Suggests ways of teaching intonation, stress, and rhythm during meaningful communication, so that they are not the sole focus of the classroom activity and the student becomes cognitively involved in the process of learning. (MES)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Objectives, Communication Skills
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Brown, Adam – ELT Journal, 1995
This article argues that minimal pairs do not merit as much attention as they receive in pronunciation instruction. There are other aspects of pronunciation that are of greater importance, and there are other ways of teaching vowel and consonant pronunciation. (13 references) (VWL)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Context Effect, Distinctive Features (Language), English (Second Language)
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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Anderson-Hsieh, Janet – English for Specific Purposes, 1990
Reviews literature dealing with International Teaching Assistants and provides a rationale for teaching them pronunciation using cognitive-based field-specific methods. An account of the application of such a teaching method to instruct Chinese and Korean chemistry teaching assistants at a North American University is also given. (55 references)…
Descriptors: Chemistry, English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Higher Education
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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
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Guion, Susan G.; Harada, Tetsuo; Clark, J. J. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2004
Guion, Clark, Harada and Wayland (2003) found that three factors affect English speakers' stress placement on bisyllabic non-words: syllabic structure, lexical class and stress patterns of phonologically similar real words. The current replication and extension included three groups (N = 30): native English speakers, early Spanish-English…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Form Classes (Languages), Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
Jung, Woo-hyun – 1994
This discussion of the speech act of thanking looks at the basic functions of the act and responses to it in American English. It is argued that in general, "thank you" expressions are used to express appreciation of benefits and to enhance rapport between interlocutors, and that this basic use is extended to the functions of conversational…
Descriptors: Cultural Traits, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication, Language Patterns
Enomoto, Kayoko – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1994
This study investigated the effect of multilingual linguistic experience on the perception of Japanese durational contrast by learners of Japanese as a foreign language at the basic level. Five monolingual and five multilingual learners listened to recorded sentences containing the utterances /iken/ or /ikken/ and were asked to identify which of…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Japanese
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