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Pennington, Martha C.; Lau, Lawrence; Sachdev, Itesh – Language Learning Journal, 2011
This comparative study, conducted in multicultural London, investigates the occurrence in interviews with a researcher and in constructed same-sex peer conversations of five linguistic features characteristic of London English in the speech of two groups of British-born adolescents: ethnic Bangladeshis and ethnic Chinese of Cantonese heritage. The…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Linguistics, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis
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Cook, Eung-Do – International Journal of American Linguistics, 1972
Revised version of a paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Western Conference on Linguistics, Vancouver, October 22, 1971. (VM)
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Comparative Analysis, Distinctive Features (Language), Intonation
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Nyeki, L. – Langue Francaise, 1973
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Comparative Analysis, Distinctive Features (Language), French
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Kelm, Orlando R. – Hispania, 1987
Comparison of how English and Spanish speakers express contrastive emphasis revealed that, while English speakers used pitch and intensity, Spanish speakers used changes in syntax and lexicon as well as pitch and intensity in showing contrasts. (CB)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
Baird, A. J. – 1973
This paper focuses on British English. Such rules as might be devised for specification of segment length would have to take into account, among other factors, the lenis/fortis nature of the segments at syllable margins, degree of stress, the relation between a given syllable and others in the same rhythm group, the same relations within the word,…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Discrimination, Comparative Analysis