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Nine Curt, Carmen Judith – 1976
This manual, intended for elementary and advanced learners of Spanish who still have pronunciation problems, contains 18 lessons dealing with the pronunciation of vowels, consonants and diphthongs, stress and intonation. Each of the lessons begins with an explanation, in Spanish, of the sound and the way it is pronounced, and includes a variety of…
Descriptors: Consonants, Instructional Materials, Intonation, Language Instruction
GRAHAM, ROBERT J. – 1968
MUCH OF LANGUAGE ARTS TEACHING IS BASED ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT WORDS ARE NATURAL UNITS OF LANGUAGE AND THAT PRINTED WORDS HAVE ONE-TO-ONE CORRESPONDENCES WITH WORDS IN SPEECH. THE OUTCOME OF THIS ASSUMPTION IS TO EMPHASIZE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILD'S SIGHT VOCABULARY AND WORD PERCEPTION, ESPECIALLY IN RELATION TO THE TEACHING OF READING.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Graphemes, Intonation, Language Patterns
Some General Characteristics of Interrogative Systems. Working Papers on Language Universals, No. 1.
Ultan, Russell – 1969
This paper discusses interrogative structures, based on the results and conclusions derived from comparing the interrogative systems of 79 randomly selected languages. The paper begins by listing a number of generalizations about interrogative structures based on disparate observations in the field. These generalizations constitute the basis for…
Descriptors: Intonation, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Universals

Yates, Warren G.; Tryon, Absorn – 1970
The 40 lessons in these two volumes and the accompanying tape recordings are designed to teach standard spoken Thai to Foreign Service Officers and other American Government personnel. After completing the "Programed Introduction to Thai Phonology," the student should be able to read the phonemic transcription in which all Thai material is…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Basic Skills, Basic Vocabulary, Instructional Materials
Dolansky, Ladislav; And Others – 1969
The research was concerned with the experimental use of Model II of the Instantaneous Pitch-Period Indicator (IPPI) with deaf subjects, and with the design and construction of a portable unit. Deaf adults and deaf children participated in training programs designed to develop more effective patterns of speech using the IPPI for visual monitoring…
Descriptors: Deafness, Educational Technology, Equipment Evaluation, Exceptional Child Research
Imamura, Shigeo; Ney, James W. – 1969
This text contains 11 lessons based on an adaptation of the 1964 essay "Automation: Road to Lifetime Jobs" by A.H. Raskin and 14 lessons based on an adaptation of John Fischer's 1948 essay "Unwritten Rules of American Politics." The format of the book and the lessons is the same as that of the other volumes of "The Audio-Lingual Literary Series."…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, English (Second Language), Instructional Materials, Intonation

Augerot, James E.; Popescu, Florin D. – 1971
This manual is intended for advanced university students in America who are learning Romanian as a third language. Part One is based upon an oral approach, each lesson containing a preparatory section in which the student is simultaneously introduced to pronunciation, intonation, and new semantic and syntactic structures. The second portion of the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Graduate Study, Intonation, Language Instruction
Al-Ani, Salman H. – 1970
This book presents an acoustical and physiological Investigation of contemporary standard Arabic as spoken in Iraq. Spectrograms and X-ray sound films are used to perform the analysis for the study. With this equipment, the author considers the vowels, consonants, pharyngealized consonants, pharyngeals and glottals, duration, gemination, and…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Arabic, Articulation (Speech), Consonants
Armagost, James L. – 1972
This paper seeks to discover the rules active in the formation of tags (intonation tags, declarative tags, and tag questions) in English. The author discusses former analyses of these constructions and presents his own thoughts with many examples, concluding that English has at least two tag formation rules: one that accounts (perhaps…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar
White, Marilyn – TESL Talk, 1977
Describes dialogues and songs used to teach listening comprehension. (SW)
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Dialogs (Language), English (Second Language), Intonation

Kalmar, Ivan; And Others – Language in Society, 1987
Presents comparison of Cantonese and non-Cantonese students' expressed judgments of two samples of speech produced by same person but presented as coming from two different speakers. Although all students thought the better speaker would have a better chance for social advancement, Cantonese subjects who spoke with heavy Cantonese accents were…
Descriptors: Cantonese, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Dialect Studies
Zhang, Lawrence Jun – Online Submission, 2004
This paper reports on two phases of a study of a group of advanced TEFL (teachers-of-English-as-a-foreign-language) students. To raise their awareness of the importance of discourse intonation while they were receiving teacher training, this study focuses on examining their sociocultural and psychological inclinations in the choice of phonological…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, English (Second Language), Phonology, Sociocultural Patterns

Piepho, Hans-Eberhard – Zielsprache Englisch, 1976
In pattern drills, the context must be clear. Frequent repetition is necessary, and spontaneity must be sought. Intonation must be considered as well as content and structure. Pattern drill should start with one sentence, but progress beyond the sentence level, to free use of the materials. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Intonation, Language Instruction

Pickering, Lucy – TESOL Quarterly, 2001
Examines the role of tone choice in the classroom communication of international teaching assistants. Compares the tone choices of native-English speaking and nonnative ITAs during their classroom presentations, finding important differences in both the numbers of tone choices and the way tones are used. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Communication, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
Grabe, Esther; Rosner, Burton S.; Garcia-Albea, Jose E.; Zhou, Xiaolin – Language and Speech, 2003
Native language affects the perception of segmental phonetic structure, of stress, and of semantic and pragmatic effects of intonation. Similarly, native language might influence the perception of similarities and differences among intonation contours. To test this hypothesis, a cross-language experiment was conducted. An English utterance was…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Intonation, Semantics, Multidimensional Scaling