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Morrison, Michelle Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation is a grammar of Rena (ISO bez), a Bantu language spoken in southwestern Tanzania by approximately 600,000 people. Bena is largely undocumented, and though aspects of Bena grammar have been described, there is no usable, detailed treatment of the Bena language. Therefore the goal of this dissertation is provide the first detailed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Phonology, Morphology (Languages)
Liu, Jiang – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Recent psycholinguistic findings showed that (a) a multi-modal phonetic training paradigm that encodes visual, interactive information is more effective in training L2 learners' perception of novel categories, (b) decreasing the acoustic variance of a phonetic dimension allows the learners to more effectively shift the perceptual weight towards…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Intonation, Mandarin Chinese