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Peer reviewedShibles, Warren – Italica, 1994
Develops an extended and precise rendering of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) in order to clarify difficulties in analyzing Italian. The method used is the paradigm method of analysis since there are no universal phonemic rules of pronunciation that will allow one to correctly pronounce Italian. Tables of transcriptions are included. (32…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Italian
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
Download full textMajor, Roy C. – 1977
This study is a detailed analysis of the phonological development of Sylvia, a bilingual child, in her acquisition of American English and Brazilian Portuguese from the age of 1 year, 7 months to 3 years, 8 months. The study is divided into four stages: ages 1.7 - 1.9; 1.9 - 2.1; 2.1 - 2.3; and 2.3 - 2.8. Up to the age of 1.9, the same…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Bilingualism, Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics
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
Nickel, Gerhard, Ed. – 1971
This conference report of the second annual meeting of the Society for Applied Linguistics contains 38 articles grouped under the following headings: (1) technology and multimedia instruction, (2) theory of translation, (3) the didactics of foreign language instruction, (4) a description of present-day language and linguistics, (5)…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Communications, Computational Linguistics, Conference Reports
