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Peer reviewedWipf, Joseph A. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1977
A report on a study to identify the relationship between subjects' age and their ability to imitate critical sounds of German. By having 210 American subjects repeat 20 critical German sounds in a non-critical context, a hierarchy of these sounds was established. Methodological conclusions are indicated. (AMH)
Descriptors: Age, Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), German
Peer reviewedCampbell, Stuart J. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1986
Investigates why graduates of Arabic courses in English-speaking countries are so few in number and why they so often compare poorly in spoken language performance with graduates of other language courses. The most important factor in this phenomenom is the gap that separates written Arabic from spoken Arabic. (SED)
Descriptors: Arabic, Communicative Competence (Languages), Descriptive Linguistics, Dialects
