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Ibrahim Halil Topal – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
Vocabulary and grammar are crucial to language proficiency. Certain word families and grammatical categories are differentiated by prosodic features like suprafixes. In English, specific noun/adjective-verb pairs, often called disyllabic words, have primary stress on different syllables: nouns usually receive trochaic stress, while verbs receive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Knowledge Level
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Rajabi, Malihe; Gowhary, Habib; Azizifar, Akbar – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The current study extracted, first, 17 general patterns of intonation. Additionally, the present study investigated the roles that might be played by the gender of Ilami EFL teachers in observing the 17 patterns of intonation. Finally, the study determined if intonation as a suprasegmental feature of speech is affected by the gender of Ilami EFL…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Gender Differences, Intonation