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Tarte, Robert D.; Barritt, Loren S. – 1968
A forced-choice paired-comparison test containing 252 items was presented to eight subjects. Each item consisted of two geometric figures chosen systematically from a sample of four ellipses and four triangles. The subjects (six female and two male adults who spoke only English) were asked to decide which of the two figures went best with a…
Descriptors: Adults, Association (Psychology), Distinctive Features (Language), English
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Stokes, Stephanie F.; Wong, Anita M-Y.; Fletcher, Paul; Leonard, Laurence B. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
Purpose: Recent research suggests that nonword repetition (NWR) and sentence repetition (SR) tasks can be used to discriminate between children with SLI and their typically developing age-matched (TDAM) and younger (TDY) peers. Method: Fourteen Cantonese-speaking children with SLI and 30 of their TDAM and TDY peers were compared on NWR and SR…
Descriptors: Memory, Sentences, Language Impairments, Phonetics
Moisio, Risto; Valento, Eero – 1976
The present study deals with two language skills, listening and speaking, and it is limited to single consonant phonemes only. The purpose is to try to find answers to the following problems: (1) Which Finnish consonants are given as substitutes for English consonants by Finnish pupils who have no previous (or practically no previous) knowledge of…
Descriptors: Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), English (Second Language)