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de la Cruz-Pavía, Irene; Elordieta, Gorka; Sebastián-Gallés, Nuria; Laka, Itziar – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2015
The present investigation seeks to determine whether and under what circumstances can adult bilinguals deploy segmentation strategies characteristic of their two languages, or of their dominant language. To that end, we inquired whether the context language employed during the segmentation experiment (i.e., the language in which participants…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Languages, Spanish, Native Language
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Anastasiou, Dimitris; Protopapas, Athanassios – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2015
Dyslexic difficulties in lexical stress were compared to difficulties in segmental phonology. Twenty-nine adolescents with dyslexia and 29 typically developing adolescents, matched on age and nonverbal ability, were assessed on reading, spelling, phonological and stress awareness, rapid naming, and short-term memory. Group differences in stress…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Phonology, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis
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Burnett, Debra L. – Journal of Child Language, 2015
Irony comprehension in seven- and eight-year-old children with typically developing language skills was explored under the framework of the graded salience hypothesis. Target ironic remarks, either conventional or novel/situation-specific, were presented following brief story contexts. Children's responses to comprehension questions were used to…
Descriptors: Child Language, Young Children, Figurative Language, Comprehension
Jessica D. Mayo – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Atypical expressive prosody is reported as a consistent challenge for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and is associated with a broad set of clinical impairments including perceptions of oddness from others. Theories of atypical prosody in ASD have attributed these impairments to the broader symptoms of ASD, particularly in the…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Intonation, Suprasegmentals
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Karimi, Hamid; O'Brian, Sue; Onslow, Mark; Jones, Mark; Menzies, Ross; Packman, Ann – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: Stuttering varies between and within speaking situations. In this study, the authors used statistical process control charts with 10 case studies to investigate variability of stuttering frequency. Method: Participants were 10 adults who stutter. The authors counted the percentage of syllables stuttered (%SS) for segments of their speech…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Adults, Charts, Statistical Analysis
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Dickie, Catherine; Ota, Mitsuhiko; Clark, Ann – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
This study investigates whether developmental dyslexia involves an impairment in implicit phonological representations, as distinct from orthographic representations and metaphonological skills. A group of adults with dyslexia was matched with a group with no history of speech/language/literacy impairment. Tasks varied in the demands made on…
Descriptors: Phonology, Language Processing, Language Impairments, Dyslexia
Miller, Julia Colleen – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation is an investigation of acoustic properties of lexical tone in two dialects of Dane-zaa (Athabaskan). The noteworthy mirror-image tone systems of the H-marked Doig and L-marked Halfway dialects provide a unique opportunity to explore intrinsic differences in how pitch manifests in specific environments. The dissertation has three…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Acoustics, Phonetics, Dialects
Kidder, Emily – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Yucatec Maya (YM) is an indigenous language of Mexico that features both phonemic tonal distinctions and phonemic vowel length. These features are primarily associated with the phonetic cues of pitch and duration, which are also considered the primary correlates of stress in language. Though scholars have noted the existence of stress or accent…
Descriptors: Mayan Languages, Suprasegmentals, Foreign Countries, Native Speakers
Andrade, Argelia – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation has two complementary objectives. First, the present study provides a contemporary reading of "hispanista" research about Mexican Spanish, including Chicano Spanish. In addition, this dissertation presents an overview and analysis of intonational findings of both Mexican Spanish (from the Los Altos region in Jalisco)…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Spanish Speaking, Intonation, Native Language
McCall, Chynna Sierra – ProQuest LLC, 2017
There is an academic achievement gap between White and Black male students as evidenced by the significant difference between standardized test scores beginning in the third grade and continuing throughout secondary education. It has been postulated that this gap is influenced by differences in how teachers interact with students of color. This…
Descriptors: Intonation, Photography, Race, African American Students
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Shoemaker, Ellenor – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2014
The current study addresses an aspect of second language (L2) phonological acquisition that has received little attention to date--namely, the acquisition of allophonic variation as a word boundary cue. The role of subphonemic variation in the segmentation of speech by native speakers has been indisputably demonstrated; however, the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Acoustics, Cues, Pronunciation
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Braun, Bettina; Galts, Tobias; Kabak, Baris – Second Language Research, 2014
Native language prosodic structure is known to modulate the processing of non-native suprasegmental information. It has been shown that native speakers of French, a language without lexical stress, have difficulties storing non-native stress contrasts. We investigated whether the ability to store lexical tone (as in Mandarin Chinese) also depends…
Descriptors: Lexicology, Tone Languages, Intonation, Suprasegmentals
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Masso, Sarah; McCabe, Patricia; Baker, Elise – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2014
Accurate production of polysyllables (words of three or more syllables) can be challenging for children with phonological impairment. Research with typically developing children has suggested that children can improve their polysyllable productions in response to requests for clarification containing an incorrect model of a target word (Gozzard et…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Speech Impairments, Phonology, Syllables
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Theodoropulos, Christos – Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics, 2014
This article offers an extended definition of prosody by examining the role of prosody in the production and comprehension of L2 spoken language from mainly a cognitive, interactionalist perspective. It reviews theoretical and empirical L1 and L2 research that have examined and explored the relationships between prosodic forms and their functions…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Language Tests
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Buss, Larissa – Language Teaching Research, 2016
Interest in pronunciation learning and teaching has increased significantly in the past few years. Studies and resources in the area have proliferated, but it is important to know whether they have influenced teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) and English as a second language (ESL). The purpose of this study was to investigate the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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