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Saud Alharbi, Amirah; Foltz, Anouschka; Kornder, Lisa; Mennen, Ineke – Second Language Research, 2023
While much research has examined second language (L2) phonetic acquisition, less research has examined first language (L1) attrition in terms of the voice onset time (VOT) of voiceless stops. The current study examined L2 acquisition and L1 attrition in the VOT of word-initial voiceless stops among late English-Arabic and Arabic-English bilinguals…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Native Language, Language Skill Attrition, Arabic
Asadi, Ibrahim A.; Ibrahim, Raphiq – Journal of Education and Learning, 2014
The present study examined the impact of "diglossia", a characteristic of the Arabic language, on the development of phonological abilities in the spoken and the literary language forms. Participants were 571 children from 10 grade levels (1-7, 9, 11 and 12), which were recruited from 10 schools by taking into account two important…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Bilingualism, Dialects, Phonological Awareness
Dalton, Martha; Ni Chasaide, Ailbhe – Language and Speech, 2005
A comparison of the contour alignment of nuclear and initial prenuclear accents was carried out for the Irish dialects of Gaoth Dobhair in Ulster (GD-U) and Cois Fharraige in Connaught (CF-C). This was done across conditions where the number of unstressed syllables following the nuclear and preceding the initial prenuclear accents was varied from…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Dialects, Irish, Foreign Countries
Kamprath, Christine K. – 1986
A dialect of Rato-Romansh spoken in a Swiss town is examined in the context of lexical phonology. The structure of this dialect's lexicon consists of two levels defined by stress assignment, not cyclically in this case but at the end of each level. Other considerations that have been advanced as bases for level division within the lexicon, such as…
Descriptors: Dialects, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Lexicology

Stankiewicz, Edward; And Others – 1971
This is Part 1 of the first of three volumes presenting a structural description of Russian dialects. This book deals with the phonological patterns of the dialects and analyzes in detail the vocalic and consonantal systems, discussing distribution, environmental influences, prosodic features, and variations among the dialects. The description is…
Descriptors: Consonants, Dialect Studies, Dialects, Distinctive Features (Language)
Powell, Mava Jo, Ed. – 1995
Fifty-three papers on linguistic theory and language research, including a number of prize-winning essays, address these topics: aspects of discourse analysis; bilingualism; Chinese modal verbs; early bilingual speech; linguistic metatheory; music and accent discrepancy; diphthongs; hiatus; vowel patterns; suprasegmentals; neologisms; aspects of…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Bilingualism, Child Language, Computational Linguistics