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Saud Alharbi, Amirah; Foltz, Anouschka; Kornder, Lisa; Mennen, Ineke – Second Language Research, 2023
While much research has examined second language (L2) phonetic acquisition, less research has examined first language (L1) attrition in terms of the voice onset time (VOT) of voiceless stops. The current study examined L2 acquisition and L1 attrition in the VOT of word-initial voiceless stops among late English-Arabic and Arabic-English bilinguals…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Native Language, Language Skill Attrition, Arabic
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De Clerck, Ilke; Pettinato, Michele; Verhoeven, Jo; Gillis, Steven – Journal of Child Language, 2017
This study investigated the relation between lexical development and the production of prosodic prominence in disyllabic babble and words. Monthly recordings from nine typically developing Belgian-Dutch-speaking infants were analyzed from the onset of babbling until a cumulative vocabulary of 200 words was reached. The differentiation between the…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Language Acquisition, Child Language, Vocabulary Development
Butler, Lynnika – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Among the many ways in which sounds alternate in the world's languages, changes in the order of sounds (metathesis) are relatively rare. Mutsun, a Southern Costanoan language of California which was documented extensively before the death of its last speaker in 1930, displays three patterns of synchronic consonant-vowel (CV) metathesis. Two of…
Descriptors: Language Research, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Semantics
Konnerth, Linda Anna – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Karbi is a Tibeto-Burman (TB) language spoken by half a million people in the Karbi Anglong district in Assam, Northeast India, and surrounding areas in the extended Brahmaputra Valley area. It is an agglutinating, verb-final language. This dissertation offers a description of the dialect spoken in the hills of the Karbi Anglong district. It is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sino Tibetan Languages, Grammar, Geographic Regions
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
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Henriksen, Nicholas C. – Language and Speech, 2012
This paper is an experimental investigation on the tonal structure and phonetic signaling of declarative questions by speakers of Manchego Peninsular Spanish, a dialect of Spanish for which little experimental research on intonation is currently available. Analysis 1 examines the scaling and timing properties of final rises produced by 16 speakers…
Descriptors: Evidence, Phonetics, Language Patterns, Intonation
Kim, Hyun-ju – ProQuest LLC, 2012
North Kyungsang Korean (NKK) is a pitch accent language in which each word has one of a restricted set of possible tonal patterns, and where the tonal pattern of a given lexical word is not fully predictable. This dissertation reports on a corpus study of accent patterns in existing words and the results of a study in which NKK speakers were asked…
Descriptors: Korean, Intonation, Language Variation, Syllables
Lee, Hyunjung – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The phonetics and phonology of the Kyungsang dialect of Korean is distinct from those of the standard Seoul dialect with regard to segments and lexical pitch. However, whether the distinctive phonetics and phonology of Kyungsang Korean are maintained by younger speakers is questionable due to the increased exposure to Seoul Korean and the…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Phonology, Korean, Dialects
Yakup, Mahire – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Some syllables are louder, longer and stronger than other syllables at the lexical level. These prominent prosodic characteristics of certain syllables are captured by suprasegmental features including fundamental frequency, duration and intensity. A language like English uses fundamental frequency, duration and intensity to distinguish stressed…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Stress Variables, Syllables, Phonology
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Gladfelter, Allison; Goffman, Lisa – Language Learning and Development, 2013
The goal of this study was to investigate the effects of prosodic stress patterns and semantic depth on word learning. Twelve preschool-aged children with typically developing speech and language skills participated in a word learning task. Novel words with either a trochaic or iambic prosodic pattern were embedded in one of two learning…
Descriptors: Intonation, Phonology, Semantics, Vocabulary Development
Jangjamras, Jirapat – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study investigated the effects of first language prosodic transfer on the perception and production of English lexical stress and the relation between stress perception and production by second language learners. To test the effect of Thai tonal distribution rules and stress patterns on native Thai speakers' perception and production of…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Evidence, Acoustics, North American English
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Davis, Patricia Anne – Slavic and East European Journal, 1970
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diagrams, Intonation, Language Instruction
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Bladon, R. A. W.; Al-Bamerni, Ameen – Journal of Phonetics, 1976
Allophonic variations in the quality and voicelessness of British English Received Pronunciation /1/ were investigated, largely through their acoustic correlates as revealed by spectrography. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Articulation (Speech), English, Intonation
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Erdmann, Peter H. – International Review of Applied Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), English, German
Bryzgunova, E. A. – Russkij Yazyk Za Rubezhom, 1973
Descriptors: Grammar, Intonation, Language Patterns, Listening Skills
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