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Ramos, Jorge E.; Shea, Christine – Hispania, 2023
In this study we show that the perception of lateral variants by Puerto Rican listeners changes according to who the listener believes is speaking. Puerto Rican listeners heard sentences with target words featuring either rhotic [voiced alveolar tap or flap] or lateral [l] (amo[voiced alveolar tap or flap] -- amo[l]) codas, a sociophonetic…
Descriptors: Race, Racism, Puerto Ricans, Language Variation
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Mompean, Jose A.; Fouz-González, Jonás – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
This article explores the potential of phonetic symbols in pronunciation teaching/learning, with a focus on English language teaching (ELT). After a brief contextualisation of current views of pronunciation instruction in the second-language (L2) teaching literature, the article reviews some of the potential advantages of, conditions for, and…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Deutschmann, Mats; Borgström, Eric; Falk, Daroon Yassin; Steinvall, Anders; Svensson, Johan – Language Awareness, 2023
The study describes a pedagogic adaptation of the matched guise technique with the aim to raise linguistic self-awareness of L2 accentedness stereotyping effects among Swedish pre-service teachers. In the experiment, 290 students attending teacher training programs were exposed to one of two matched guises, representing either L1 accented Swedish,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Metalinguistics, Swedish
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Biers, Kelly; Osterhaus, Ellen – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2021
Wisconsin Walloon is a heritage dialect of a threatened language in the langue d'oïl family that originated in southern Belgium and expanded to northeastern Wisconsin, USA in the mid-1850s. Walloon-speaking immigrants formed an isolated agricultural community, passing on and using the language for the next two generations until English became the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dialects, Immigrants, Agricultural Occupations
Amanda Mahnaz Yazdani – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation investigated how a bilingual's experiences can affect how their first language pronunciation can differ from monolingual speakers of their two languages. We used a methodology incorporating quantitative phonetic measurements of voice onset time and vowel formants, grammar and vocabulary tests, and qualitative measures of language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Phonetics, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Sneller, Betsy – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The traditional Philadelphia allophonic /ae/ system (henceforth: PHL shown in (1) below) is characterized by a set of complicated conditioning factors and a dramatic acoustic distinction between the two allophones. In recent years, some Philadelphians have begun to exhibit a new allophonic system (NAS, shown in (2) below). Like PHL, NAS is…
Descriptors: Phonology, Language Variation, Pronunciation, Acoustics
Smith, Jerry – Online Submission, 2015
This paper discusses the similarities between the Bible record of the Tower of Babel and the resulting confusion of languages and how it relates to modern times and the trend we see of English as an International Language (EIL). This paper then briefly examines the trend of being culturally sensitive in EIL by accepting cultural or "world…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Grammar, Phonetics
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Suarez Budenbender, Eva-Maria – Hispania, 2013
Dialectal differences are frequently cited by members of a majority group as their main means of identifying members of a minority ethnic group. However, existing stereotypes of minority language varieties and their speakers often suggest that social prejudices influence attitudes towards minority groups and their linguistic varieties. The present…
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Social Influences, Language Attitudes, Language Minorities
Callier, Patrick R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation investigates the linguistic and social constraints on the occurrence of creaky voice quality (creak) in Beijing Mandarin (BM), as well as the effect of linguistic and prosodic context on creak's social meanings for Mandarin listeners. It is a two-phase study, composed of 1) a production study of the distribution of creak in the…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Foreign Countries, Interviews, Computational Linguistics
Lamy, Delano Sydney – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The present study is concerned with language contact between Creole English and Spanish spoken by bilingual West Indians who live in Panama City, Panama. The goal of this study is to examine the speech patterns of monolinguals of Creole English and Spanish and Spanish-Creole English bilinguals in the local communities of this region, by employing…
Descriptors: Creoles, Phonetics, Spanish, English
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Butcher, Andrew – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2008
It is probable that the majority of the 455 000 strong Aboriginal population of Australia speak some form of Australian Aboriginal English (AAE) at least some of the time and that it is the first (and only) language of many Aboriginal children. This means their language is somewhere on a continuum ranging from something very close to Standard…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Phonetics, Foreign Countries, Language Variation
Matter, Marc; Ziberi, Johanna – Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (Tranel), 2001
This article explores the modalities of accommodation of two dialectophones [speakers of a dialect] in the Haut-Valais [this is a regional place name], one of whom has lived in Berne, Switzerland for more than 20 years, the other for several years. By exploiting the notion of repertoire, the study focused on the greater or lesser convergence…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Foreign Countries, German, Language Attitudes
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Ossipov, Helene – French Review, 1994
Salient lexical, phonetic, and morphological peculiarities of the vernacular French of Quebec are examined and explained, and similarities to European popular French are discussed, both as a guide to texts written in the vernacular and to place this variety in its sociolinguistic context. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Canadian Literature, Foreign Countries, French, Language Attitudes
Knops, Uus – 1988
There is a substantial discrepancy between normative and empirical views on Dutch standard pronunciation. The discrepancy between these views can be reduced by looking at the empirical range as being structured from an imagined point of reference. The prescriptive standard then operates as the ultimate model toward which the submodels for standard…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Dutch, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
Johnson, Ruth; Jenks, Frederick L. – 1994
A study investigated the perceptions of native English-speakers concerning the spoken grammatical and phonetic (accent) errors of non-native speakers. Speech samples were collected from three non-native speakers of English of varied linguistic backgrounds (German, Spanish, and Arabic) and one speaker of North American English. Each of the four…
Descriptors: Arabic, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, German
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