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Direct linkZhu, 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
Download full textSalehuddin, Khazriyati; Winskel, Heather – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2015
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the use of diacritics in the Arabic script of Malay to facilitate Arab postgraduate students of UKM to read the Malay words accurately. It is hypothesised that the Arabic script could facilitate the reading of Malay words among the Arab students because of their earlier exposure to the Arabic script in…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Distinctive Features (Language), Native Speakers, Written Language
Khan, Mohamed Fazlulla – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2013
L1 habits often tend to interfere with the process of learning a second language. The vowel habits of Arab learners of English are one such interference. Arabic orthography is such that certain vowels indicated by diacritics are often omitted, since an experienced reader of Arabic knows, by habit, the exact vowel sound in each phonetic…
Descriptors: Vowels, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewedBarrutia, Richard – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1971
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Consonants, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Instruction
Peer reviewedCalbris, 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)
CLARK, JOHN L.D. – 1967
THIS REPORT DESCRIBES IN DETAIL FIVE RELATED EXPERIMENTS THAT WERE CONDUCTED IN AREAS PERTAINING TO THE TEACHING OF FRENCH PRONUNCIATION TO NATIVE SPEAKERS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH. THE FIRST TWO EXPERIMENTS SOUGHT TO DETERMINE THE RELATIVE ACCEPTABILITY OF 38 ENGLISH PHONEMES TO NATIVE FRENCH LISTENERS AT EACH OF TWO ACCEPTABILITY LEVELS--PHONEMIC AND…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Auditory Discrimination, Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics
Davidsen-Nielsen, Niels – 1977
Since 1971 the approach adopted in the teaching of English phonetics in Denmark has been a contrastive one. In this paper it is argued that although the original contrastive hypothesis (Lado 1957) has to be modified and weakened, a contrastive approach is highly useful in learning and teaching the pronunciation of a foreign language. Selected…
Descriptors: Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, Danish, Distinctive Features (Language)
Pesonen, Jaakko – Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, 1968
Theoretical considerations of phoneme construction were explored and a study was made of phoneme efficiency for deaf communication in Finland which utilized 128 deaf pupils (77 boys and 51 girls from grades 3 to 8 and from ages 8 to 15). The main factors of defective production were found in visual reception. It was concluded that, on the average,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Audiolingual Skills, Auditory Training, Consonants
PDF pending restorationDefense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1966
The sounds of Standard Indonesian, or Bahasa Indonesian, used in official government and private communication, are presented here. The place and manner of articulation and the distinctive features of consonants, vowels, diphthongs, and vocalic combinations are thoroughly explained through text, illustrations, and charts. Variants of…
Descriptors: Consonants, Distinctive Features (Language), Error Analysis (Language), Indonesian
