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Gokgoz Kurt, Burcu; Medlin, Julie; Tessarolo, Ashley – Online Submission, 2014
Considering the contradictory research on explicit teaching of suprasegmentals, the present study aims to investigate the effects of explicit instruction of L2 English learners' perception of prosodically ambiguous intonation patterns, as well as the possible effects of reported musical familiarity on intonation acquisition. A control group and a…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Second Language Learning, Language Patterns
Edwards, Jan; Beckman, Mary – 1987
A series of phonetic production and perception experiments were designed to describe the phonological or phonetic domains of two effects in spoken English: final lengthening, generally interpreted as a mark for the edge of some linguistically-defined unit of speech production, and stress-timed shortening, generally interpreted as evidence for…
Descriptors: English, Intonation, Language Patterns, Language Usage
Ikeda, Yumi; Masataka, Nobuo – 1997
This study examined the speech behavior of Japanese women when interacting with young children. Sixty-one single Japanese-speaking women, ages 18-26, were recorded as they read aloud picture books to a 1-year-old child and as they conversed with another Japanese-speaking adult woman. When their utterances were acoustically compared between the two…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Speech, Family Size, Females
Chun, Dorothy M. – 1987
An acoustic study of German focused on voice frequency at sentence-, turn-, and discourse-end in conversations. The data were drawn from short dialogues in which the same word occurs at the ends of utterances, in the middle of a turn, at the end of a turn, and at the end of a discourse. The dialogues were read 10 times by a male and a female…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Cues, Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis

Yoshida, Kensaku – 1977
Although intonation has been said to be one of the first meaningful units of language that a child acquires, it is difficult to say just what this really means. How does the child learn to distinguish the various grammatical meanings that an intonation can have? It was hypothesized that the child first acquires question and request forms on the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Intonation, Japanese
Duchan, Judith; Oliva, Joseph – 1975
This paper is a report of two studies of the relationship between intonation and syntax. An analysis of intonation was used to decide whether the pivot-like two-morpheme constructions of a one- and one-half-year-old girl were single lexical items or two separate lexical items. Further, the intonation contours connected with her linguistically…
Descriptors: Child Language, Delayed Speech, Intonation, Language Acquisition
Crawford, Mary; And Others – 1983
In a study of the differences in male and female descriptions of nine photographs, picture type was found to be an important variable. Twelve male and 8 female college students were asked to describe each of the photographs. Picture type was rated as high in interest to males, high in interest to females, or high in interest to both. Responses…
Descriptors: College Students, Color, Comparative Analysis, Expressive Language
Hall, Joan Kelly – 1994
The practice of "chismeando" (gossiping, in Spanish) is examined as it is defined and engaged in by a group of women from the Dominican Republic. It is argued that the stories told in chismeando are repositories of sociocultural knowledge. Women's participation in the practice provides the women with a framework for understanding and…
Descriptors: Cultural Traits, Females, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication
Winkler, Henry J. – 1973
This study was designed to investigate, describe, and compare the intonation patterns of Black English and Standard English speaking children in a reading (formal) and free discourse (informal) situation. Black English was defined as the linguistic code of the subjects sampled from the inner city black poverty area schools, and Standard English as…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Intonation, Language Patterns
Fromkin, Victoria A. – 1974
This paper examines the problem of whether tonal representation should be considered segmental or suprasegmental. Woo's hypothesis that tone features are to be specified segmentally is discussed as well as Leben's statement that in some languages tone is suprasegmental. The following are criteria suggested as a basis for tonal representation:…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Intonation, Language Patterns
Backman, Nancy – 1977
This study is concerned with problems in language learners' intonation of English. Ten intonation problems were found in the learner speech of two adult Spanish-speaking males: (1) range of pitch, (2) initial rise, (3) final fall, (4) rise to final stressed syllable, (5) placement of prominence, (6) final rise for questions, (7) total question…
Descriptors: Adults, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Interference (Language)
Rivero, Maria-Luisa – 1976
The properties of one of the structures of politeness in the romance languages, the deference system connected with the use of conditional tenses, are analyzed in this paper. Although only Spanish examples are given, the conclusions also apply to French, Italian and Roumanian. The first part of the paper analyzes politeness in relation to its…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), French, Grammar, Intonation
Bucholtz, Mary – 1997
A study examined patterns of language use, including intonation, in a single social group of high school students, six "nerd girls." The group formed an "anti-club" to celebrate the individuals' disparate interests. Student narratives and group exchanges are analyzed for expressions of nerd group affiliation and identity,…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Females, High School Students, High Schools
Lin, Hsiang-Pao; And Others – 1995
Specific tools and techniques to help students of English as a Second Language overcome pronunciation problems are presented. The selection of problems addressed is based on the frequency and seriousness of errors that many native Chinese-speaking learners produce. Ways to resolve various problems (e.g., missing final consonants, misplaced stress…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, English (Second Language)