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Zhu, Wenhui; Lee, Sun-Hee; Zhang, Xinting – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2023
This study investigates the perception of the three Mandarin high vowels /i, u, y/ after dental, retroflex, and palatal fricatives and affricates (/s/-/[voiceless alveolar affricate]/-/[voiceless alveolar affricate][superscript voiceless glottal fricative]/; /[voiceless retroflex sibilant fricative]/-/[voiceless alveolar affricate]/-/[voiceless…
Descriptors: Vowels, Mandarin Chinese, English, Native Speakers
Dewelde, M.; Landercy, A. – Revue de Phonetique Appliquee, 1974
This article attempts, through a study on the acoustic and the perceptual level of the contrast between two Dutch vocalic phonemes, to present a rigorous methodology for contrastive phonetics to be used by language teachers. (Text is in French.) (AM)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Contrastive Linguistics
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Calbris, G. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1978
Analyzes the physiological, acoustic, and auditory reasons for errors in the pronunciation of French nasal vowels by students, and suggests techniques for overcoming the difficulties identified. (AM)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Auditory Perception, Distinctive Features (Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Lehtonen, Jaakko, Ed.; Sajavaara, Kari, Ed. – 1979
Four papers report on phonetic differences between Finnish and English, with pedagogical implications for teaching English as a second language. "The English /ptk/-/bdg/ Distinction: Data and Discussion" by Kari Suomi is a survey of recent work on the phonetic parameters of the fortis/lenis distinction. The distinction…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)