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Nicole Irene Mirea – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Phonotactic patterns are generalizations that govern the order of consonants and vowels, within words and syllables. Certain second-order phonotactic patterns--those that relate multiple sounds within a syllable, such as "if the vowel is [near-close near-front unrounded vowel], then [s] can only appear at the end of the…
Descriptors: Generalization, Prior Learning, Speech Communication, Phonemes
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Shafiro, Valeriy; Levy, Erika S.; Khamis-Dakwar, Reem; Kharkhurin, Anatoliy – Language and Speech, 2013
This study investigated the perception of American-English (AE) vowels and consonants by young adults who were either (a) early Arabic-English bilinguals whose native language was Arabic or (b) native speakers of the English dialects spoken in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where both groups were studying. In a closed-set format, participants…
Descriptors: Vowels, Phonemes, Dialects, Young Adults
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Hellige, Joseph B.; Adamson, Maheen M. – Brain and Language, 2007
Hemispheric asymmetry was examined for native English speakers identifying consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) non-words presented in standard printed form, in standard handwritten cursive form or in handwritten cursive with the letters separated by small gaps. For all three conditions, fewer errors occurred when stimuli were presented to the right…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Error Patterns, English, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Chamot, Anna Uhl – International Review of Applied Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Error Patterns
Catran, Jack – 1985
The transcript of and guide to a two-cassette course designed to assist speakers of Black English in erasure of their accents includes an introduction on Black and Standard English usage, an explanation of the system used in this course, the pronunciation symbols used, and an explanation of how to change or eliminate trouble spots. The course is…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Consonants, Diacritical Marking, Dialects
Olmsted, D. L. – 1971
This project began with a theory about the prediction of errors in childrens' attempts to pronounce utterances modeled for them by adults. Subjects were children from 15 to 54 months old in all positions in the family. The sample from each child was an unprompted utterance judged to be an attempt to say something in English. Differences between…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Books, Child Development, Child Language
Studdert-Kennedy, Michael, Ed.; O'Brien, Nancy, Ed. – 1984
One of a regular series on the status and progress of studies on the nature of speech, instrumentation for its investigation, and practical applications, this report covers the period of January 1-June 30, 1984. The 14 studies summarized in the report deal with the following topics: (1) sources of variability in early speech development, (2)…
Descriptors: Adults, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Children