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Delforge, Ann Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation describes the phonetic characteristics of a phenomenon that has previously been denominated "unstressed vowel reduction" in Andean Spanish based on the spectrographic analysis of 40,556 unstressed vowels extracted from the conversational speech of 150 residents of the city of Cusco, Peru. Results demonstrate that this…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Phonetics, Vowels, Form Classes (Languages)
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Pope, Rob – English in Australia, 2008
This opens with a critical and historical exploration of the terms that make up the phrase "English National Curriculum", breaking them down to build them up differently. This prompts a critique of the nominally singular subject "English" that stresses its plurality ("Englishes") and introduces the concept "Englishing" to highlight its ongoing…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Language Variation, Foreign Countries, Language Usage
Reichler-Beguelin, Marie-Jose, Ed. – Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (TRANEL), 1993
Papers from the conference on linguistic anomaly include: "La definition interactive de la deviance en situation exolingue et bilingue" ("The Interactive Definition of Deviation in Exolinguistic and Bilingual Situations") (Bernard Py); "La negociation ratee: pratiques sociales et methodes interactives du traitement de la…
Descriptors: Expert Systems, Foreign Countries, French, French Literature