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Ziegesar, Detlef von – Englisch, 1973
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Classroom Communication, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Objectives
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Platt, John T.; Ho, Mian Lian – World Englishes, 1989
Examines the use and function of Chinese discourse particles in informal speech in Singaporean English, comparing the intonation and pitch movement of native varieties of English to Singaporean English. (Author/OD)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Chinese, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
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Papousek, Mechthild; Hwang, Shu-Fen C. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1991
Native speakers recorded utterances in three role-play contexts: speech to presyllabic infants, foreign language instruction, and adult conversation. For babytalk, speakers neglected, reduced, or modified lexical tonal information in favor of simplified and clarified intonation contours. The implications regarding tone acquisition in children and…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Females, Infants
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Dromi, Esther; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1993
This study of 15 Hebrew-speaking preschool children with specific language impairment and 2 comparison groups tentatively supported the notion that grammatical morphemes were less difficult for subjects if they take the form of stressed and/or lengthened syllables and if they appear in a language in which nouns, verbs, and adjectives must be…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Hebrew
Champagne-Muzar, C.; And Others – IRAL, 1993
A study of adults learning French as a second language showed that enhancing the pedagogical environment through development of a French phonetic training program resulted in improved discrimination and production ability among the students. (39 references) (LB)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Age, Applied Linguistics, Foreign Countries
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Fernald, Anne; Mazzie, Claudia – Developmental Psychology, 1991
In two experiments, mothers told their infant and an adult a story that involved target words, and women taught an assembly procedure involving novel terminology to another adult. In speech to infants, mothers positioned focused words on pitch peaks, but in speech to adults, the emphasis was more variable. (BC)
Descriptors: Adults, Caregiver Speech, Comparative Analysis, Cues
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Chen, Aoju; Gussenhoven, Carlos; Rietveld, Toni – Language and Speech, 2004
This study examines the perception of paralinguistic intonational meanings deriving from Ohala's Frequency Code (Experiment 1) and Gussenhoven's Effort Code (Experiment 2) in British English and Dutch. Native speakers of British English and Dutch listened to a number of stimuli in their native language and judged each stimulus on four semantic…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Listening, Paralinguistics, Semantics
University of Trondheim Working Papers in Linguistics, 1993
In this volume, five working papers are presented. "Accessing Contexts with Intonation" (Thorstein Fretheim) discusses the use of intonation as a tool for understanding the context of an utterance, particularly in combination with reference. Examples are offered in Norwegian. In "'Altsa' and 'Nemlig': Two Views of Causality"…
Descriptors: Dialects, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Intonation
Demers, Monique – 1998
A study investigated the relationship between syntax, discourse, and suprasegmentals in reported utterances (e.g., "He said,..."). The study is intended as both theoretical and descriptive, specifically, proposing a model of intonation in spontaneous oral Quebec French. The first chapter reviews research on Quebec French prosody, on oral…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Intonation, Language Patterns
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Garrott, Carl L. – 1983
The development, testing, and classroom use of an instructional module for teaching French intonation patterns to beginning students are described. The module begins with the "accent tonique," the simplest of French intonation patterns, which the student must learn to detect and imitate in progressively more difficult combinations before going on…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Objectives, French, Intonation
El-Halees, Yousef – 1984
Certain simplification and reduction processes used by Arabs in learning English as a second language are examined, such as: (1) simplification of syllables, (2) deletion of English articles, and (3) generation of English questions by using only intonation and leaving word order intact. The study is made from the perspective of two theories of…
Descriptors: Arabic, Determiners (Languages), Distinctive Features (Language), English (Second Language)
Mazzie, Claudia A. – 1986
A study investigated whether young children use sentence accent to mark new information as systematically as they have been shown to handle contrastive stress within naturally-occurring discourse. Data were drawn from the spontaneous conversations of a boy-and-girl twin pair with adults. The twins' speech was coded in carefully-defined categories…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classification, Discourse Analysis, Intonation
Flippo, Rona F. – 1984
Punctuation serves as a system of visual markers that contradict previously generated false grammatical expectations. Word order conditions define the redundant or critical aspect of punctuation cues to visual display. Parsing (grouping) sentences into meaningful phrases and clauses aids language comprehension, and children who have reading…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Software, Intonation, Language Processing
Jensen, Marvin D.; Carlin, Phyllis Scott – Missouri Speech Journal, 1981
To determine whether gender differences exist in paralinguistic perception, 31 male and 59 female college students listened to an audiotape on which emotions were conveyed through ambiguous verbal statements and then indicated their perceptions of the conveyed emotions. Statistical analyses of the student responses in relation to students'…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, College Students, Communication Research, Females
Gambhir, Surendra K. – 1978
This book presents 20 lessons in Hindi-Urdu conversation intended for a systematic learner of the language in the latter part of the first year or the second year of study. Throughout the book, there is an emphasis on intonation. The conversations are close to natural conversations, although they are not recorded from real situations. Each…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Conversational Language Courses, Dialogs (Language), Higher Education
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