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Grassenger, Anneliese – IRAL, 1988
Demonstrates how native speakers of Italian and German rated the "native-speaker-likeness" of recorded speech of other native speakers of Italian and German. Findings indicate that subjects from southern Austria, whose own language norms differ from standard German, marked some German consonant realizations as non-native. (DK)
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Comparative Analysis, Consonants, Distinctive Features (Language)
Sopher, H. – IRAL, 1987
Compares the use of the English verbs "say" and "tell" and the Hebrew verbs "amar" and "siper" and then examines the degree of correspondence between "say" and "amar" and between "tell" and "siper." (CB)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Distinctive Features (Language), English, Hebrew