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Author : Yang Chen
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Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Acoustic Characteristics of American English Produced by Native Speakers of Mandarin written by Yang Chen and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nan Xing
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Download or read book English /l/s as Produced by Native English and Mandarin Chinese Speakers written by Nan Xing and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present study examines the acoustic and articulatory features of English onset and coda /l/s as produced by native English and Mandarin Chinese speakers in the vowel contexts of /i/, /?/, /e/, / ?/, /u/, /?/, /o/, /?/, /?/, /?/, /?/, and /ñ/, and via the elicitation tasks of word list and mini dialogue. Four Mandarin Chinese speakers who had lived in Canada for at least one year by the time of the experiment and four Canadian English speakers who were born and raised on west coast of Canada participated in the research. Both groups of speakers were the graduate students studying at the University of Victoria. The experiment took place at the Phonetics Laboratory in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Victoria. An ultrasound machine together with a synchronized microphone was used to record the speech data for analysis. The results showed that for onset /l/, the tongue position of the Mandarin Chinese speakers was more front than that of the English speakers. For coda /l/s, Mandarin Chinese speakers had lower and more retracted tongue position than their English counterparts. ANOVA tests showed that vowel contexts and task formality had limited impact on the acoustic qualities of the onset and coda /l/s produced by both groups of speakers. The results and conclusions from the present study will contribute to a better understanding of the articulatory features of the English /l/s. Mandarin Chinese learners may also benefit from this study in that they could potentially improve their pronunciations and reduce accent.
Author : Katherine Carson Bielec
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Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (414 download)
Download or read book Acoustic Characteristics of American English Vowels Produced by Floridian Female Speakers written by Katherine Carson Bielec and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bei Yang
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662446456
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Perception and Production of Mandarin Tones by Native Speakers and L2 Learners written by Bei Yang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tones are the most challenging aspect of learning Chinese as a second language, and L2 learners’ perceptual categories differ in important and fascinating ways from those of native speakers. This book explores the relationship between tone perception and production among native speakers and non-native learners as illustrated in the experiments the author conducted with native speakers, true learners and heritage learners, all of whom were tested on their ability to produce tones naturally and to perceive 81 synthesized tones in various contexts. The experiments show that each group processes tones differently with regard to both register (tonal level) and contour (tonal shape). The results also reveal how three types of cues – acoustic, psychological and contextual – influence non-native speakers’ tone perception and production.
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Publisher : LBASS
ISBN 13 : 0616220030
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Speech Prosody 2008 Conference written by and published by LBASS. This book was released on with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ewa Waniek-Klimczak
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642240194
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Teaching and Researching English Accents in Native and Non-native Speakers written by Ewa Waniek-Klimczak and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second language phonology is approached in this book from the perspective of data-based studies into the English sound system as used by native and non-native speakers of the language. The book offers a unique combination of psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and pedagogical approaches, with individual contributions investigating the effect of selected conditioning factors on the pronunciation of English. With all the richness of approaches, it is a strong phonetic background that unifies individual contributions to the volume. Thus, the book contains a large body of original, primary research which will be of interest to experienced scientist, practitioners and lecturers as well as graduate students planning to embark on empirical methods of investigating the nature of the sound system
Author : Ratree Wayland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108882366
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Second Language Speech Learning written by Ratree Wayland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including contributions from a team of world-renowned international scholars, this volume is a state-of-the-art survey of second language speech research, showcasing new empirical studies alongside critical reviews of existing influential speech learning models. It presents a revised version of Flege's Speech Learning Model (SLM-r) for the first time, an update on a cornerstone of second language research. Chapters are grouped into five thematic areas: theoretical progress, segmental acquisition, acquiring suprasegmental features, accentedness and acoustic features, and cognitive and psychological variables. Every chapter provides new empirical evidence, offering new insights as well as challenges on aspects of the second language speech acquisition process. Comprehensive in its coverage, this book summarises the state of current research in second language phonology, and aims to shape and inspire future research in the field. It is an essential resource for academic researchers and students of second language acquisition, applied linguistics and phonetics and phonology.
Author : Shu-chen Ou
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030511332
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Perceptual Training on Lexical Stress Contrasts written by Shu-chen Ou and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the effects of perceptual training on the perception of English lexical stress in rising intonation by Mandarin-speaking EFL learners in Taiwan, and shows that these effects can be positive as well as negative. The book is of interest to researchers in lexical stress and intonation, or issues related to acquisition of L2 suprasegmentals and native-language impact on this process, as well as for those designing a training course on lexical stress for EFL learners, particularly those with a tone language background. Learning to perceive non-native sound contrasts can be a formidable task, particularly when learners can’t rely on cues from their native-language experience. A case in point is Mandarin-speaking EFL learners’ perception of lexical stress. They can accurately identify the stress patterns of target words in sentences that have a falling intonation. However, they experience considerable difficulties when the target words are in questions, where the intonation is rising. Where most training studies use only stimuli produced in falling intonation, we implemented a perceptual training program to examine whether Mandarin-speaking EFL learners could learn to perceive English lexical stress in both falling intonation and rising intonation.
Author : Megan M. Brown-Bousfield
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027249253
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book L3 Development After the Initial State written by Megan M. Brown-Bousfield and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To date, the field of L3 acquisition research has had a heavy focus on the initial state of the L3 grammar. While this initial state research is critical to understanding L3 acquisition as a whole, in order for an explanatory understanding of language acquisition in the multilingual mind, the field needs to expand its scope beyond this area of focus. This volume brings together L3 acquisition and multilingualism researchers in order to discuss the state of the field and introduce new ideas related to the development of post-initial L3 knowledge, and the relationship among languages in the multilingual mind. It includes contributions related to syntactic, phonological, and lexical development beyond the L3 initial state. The purpose of this volume is to expand the current academic discussions within this field, by emphasizing the role of the developmental process in an L3 context, with the hope of inspiring further research in this domain.
Author : Tracey M. Derwing
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000532682
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Speaking written by Tracey M. Derwing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook is a comprehensive volume outlining the foremost issues regarding research and teaching of second language speaking, examining such diverse topics as cognitive processing, articulation, knowledge of pragmatics, instruction in sub-components of speaking (e.g., grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary) and the attrition of the first language. Outstanding academics have contributed chapters to provide an integrated and inclusive perspective on oral language skills. Specialized contexts for speaking are also explored (e.g., English as a Lingua Franca, workplace, and interpreting). The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Speaking will be an indispensable resource for students and scholars in applied linguistics, cognitive psychology, linguistics, and education.
Author : Ettien Koffi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780367617578
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Relevant Acoustic Phonetics of L2 English written by Ettien Koffi and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book applies four relevant concepts in acoustic phonetics and proposes a new approach for assessing the intelligibility of second language pronunciation instrumentally.
Author : Ettien Koffi
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000340015
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Relevant Acoustic Phonetics of L2 English written by Ettien Koffi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intelligibility is the ultimate goal of human communication. However, measuring it objectively remained elusive until the 1940s when physicist Harvey Fletcher pioneered a psychoacoustic methodology for doing so. Another physicist, von Bekesy, demonstrated clinically that Fletcher’s theory of Critical Bands was anchored in anatomical and auditory reality. Fletcher’s and Bekesy’s approach to intelligibility has revolutionized contemporary understanding of the processes involved in encoding and decoding speech signals. Their insights are applied in this book to account for the intelligibility of the pronunciation of 67 non-native speakers from the following language backgrounds –10 Arabic, 10 Japanese, 10 Korean, 10 Mandarin, 11 Serbian and Croatian "the Slavic Group," 6 Somali, and 10 Spanish speakers who read the Speech Accent Archive elicitation paragraph. Their pronunciation is analyzed instrumentally and compared and contrasted with that of 10 native speakers of General American English (GAE) who read the same paragraph. The data-driven intelligibility analyses proposed in this book help answer the following questions: Can L2 speakers of English whose native language lacks a segment/segments or a suprasegment/ suprasegments manage to produce it/them intelligibly? If they cannot, what segments or suprasegments do they use to substitute for it/them? Do the compensatory strategies used interfere with intelligibility? The findings reported in this book are based on nearly 12,000 measured speech tokens produced by all the participants. This includes some 2,000 vowels, more than 500 stop consonants, over 3,000 fricatives, nearly 1,200 nasals, about 1,500 approximants, a over 1,200 syllables onsets, as many as 800 syllable codas, more than 1,600 measurement of F0/pitch, and duration measurements of no fewer than 539 disyllabic words. These measurements are in keeping with Baken and Orlikoff (2000:3) and in accordance with widely accepted Just Noticeable Difference thresholds, and relative functional load calculations provided by Catforda (1987).
Author : Gwang Tsai Chen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A Comparative Study of Pitch Range of Native Speakers of Midwestern English and Mandarin Chinese written by Gwang Tsai Chen and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helen Lee Thomas
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Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Effects of Different Acoustic Characteristics in Language Processing written by Helen Lee Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nuray Alagözlü
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527556700
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Current Perspectives on Vocabulary Learning and Teaching written by Nuray Alagözlü and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together current perspectives and up-to-date research on vocabulary teaching and the learning of a foreign or second language. It will serve as a basis for academic studies and can be used as a supplementary source for vocabulary courses in English language teacher training programs. Featuring contributors from Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Spain and Turkey, who detail their experiences of language teaching in different cultural contexts, this collection is valuable as it reflects theory and practice at work in different settings on vocabulary acquisition, teaching vocabulary to young learner, and vocabulary teaching and learning strategies. The volume also provides insights into the use of technology in vocabulary teaching, and details various forms of vocabulary testing.
Author : Sarah Hoefflin
Publisher : Logical Learning Publications LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780975381601
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (816 download)
Download or read book Pronouncing American English Vowels written by Sarah Hoefflin and published by Logical Learning Publications LLC. This book was released on 2004 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary E. Beckman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110874024
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Stress and Non-Stress Accent written by Mary E. Beckman and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
