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Peer reviewedGatbonton, Elizabeth – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1978
A report on a study exploring the relationship between observed variability in second-language speech and the process in which correct variants are acquired and incorrect ones are replaced. Three phonological variables in the English speech of French-Canadian second-language speakers in Montreal were investigated. The method, results and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Language Patterns, Language Research
Backman, Nancy – 1977
This study is concerned with problems in language learners' intonation of English. Ten intonation problems were found in the learner speech of two adult Spanish-speaking males: (1) range of pitch, (2) initial rise, (3) final fall, (4) rise to final stressed syllable, (5) placement of prominence, (6) final rise for questions, (7) total question…
Descriptors: Adults, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Interference (Language)
PDF pending restorationMoustafa, Margaret Heiss – 1978
Native speakers of Egyptian Arabic make errors in their pronunciation of English that cannot always be accounted for by a contrastive analysis of Egyptian analysis of Egyptain Arabic and English. This study focuses on three types of errors in the pronunciation of voiced and voiceless "th" made by fluent speakers of English. These errors were noted…
Descriptors: Arabic, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure
PDF pending restorationVago, Robert M.; Altenberg, Evelyn – 1977
This study identified two types of interference between Hungarian and English: phonetic and phonological interference. Four native speakers of Hungarian who are second language speakers of English read a passage containing a wide variety of sounds in different phonological environments. A set of rules mapping American English onto…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics
