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Direct linkMegan Alyssa Ehrenfeld – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Language is connected to a people, culture, history, and communicative purpose. One way world language teachers help students explore the intersections of culture and language is through the use of authentic texts, such as films, newspapers, podcasts, videos, music or short stories (see: Pinzon, 2020). While the research points to the success of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Cultural Awareness
Margaret E. Cychosz – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Child speech is highly variable. The speech apparatus--the vocal tract, tongue, teeth, and vocal folds--develop at different rates for different children, which helps explain some of the variability in children's speech. For example, the ratio of the oral to pharyngeal cavities changes as children age, making it difficult to establish reliable…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Vowels, American Indian Languages, Phonemics
Socialized Perception and L2 Pronunciation among Spanish-Speaking Learners of English in Puerto Rico
Perez, Marisol Santiago – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study is to validate the following hypothesis: First, spoken accents have a major influence and can affect listeners' personal attitudes and second, native Puerto Rican speakers will speak English as a second language without wanting to sound like a North American English speaker. This study will contribute to research on the…
Descriptors: Puerto Ricans, Spanish, Language Variation, Pronunciation
Isla Flores-Bayer – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Because language, as a method of communication, is a two-way channel involving both speakers and listeners, a methodical study of linguistic variation should involve an analysis of both, how it is expressed and how it is interpreted. Furthermore, because language is known to vary between individuals (inter-speaker variation) as well as at the…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Language Styles, Audio Equipment
Takara, Nobutaka – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Itoman, one of the varieties spoken in the southern part of Okinawa Island, exhibits several tone patterns. Although the tone patterns of Itoman were examined in previous studies (Nakasone ms., Hattori 1959, Oshiro 1963, and Hirayama et al. 1966), they ended at the descriptive level, and no phonological accounts for the surface tone patterns were…
Descriptors: Phonology, Intonation, Language Patterns, Language Variation
Garvin, Rebecca Todd – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This qualitative ethnographic Linguistic Landscape (LL) study collected and analyzed ten individual "walking tour" interviews with residents of Memphis, Tennessee, exploring the personal thoughts and feelings about linguistic changes in the communities triggered by the LL. The researcher focused the participants' attention on…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Multilingualism, Empathy, Emotional Response
