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Walz, Joel – 1979
The purpose of this study was to describe the pronunication of American college students learning French. To gather the data a set of 21 sounds, all theoretically in contrast with English sounds, was chosen. These were elicited in a series of sessions during the subjects' first semester of French. The subjects recorded their pronunciation on…
Descriptors: College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), French
Haeusser, Christiane – Travaux de l'Institut de Phonetique d'Aix, 1978
The test described here is a particular type of diagnostic test; it is part of a series of tests designed to explore systematically areas of potential lexical difficulty in the English language for French-speaking students of English. The lexical units are considered under their formal, morphological, syntactic and semantic aspects. The test has…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diagnostic Tests, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Studdert-Kennedy, Michael, Ed.; O'Brien, Nancy, Ed. – 1983
Prepared as part of a regular series on the status and progress of studies on the nature of speech, instrumentation for its evaluation, and practical applications for speech research, this compilation contains 14 reports. Topics covered in the reports include the following: (1) phonetic coding and order memory in relation to reading proficiency,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Communication Research
O Baoill, Donall P., Ed. – TEANGA: Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 1981
Papers from three conferences on applied linguistics include the following: "Evaluating Language Success in an Irish Context" (D. P. O Baoill); "Facilitation of Language Development in the Deaf Child" (M. Nicholas Griffey, Sr.); "Observations on Thematic Interference Between Irish and English" (M. Filppula); "A…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Auditory Perception, Bilingualism, Children