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Kunitz, Stanley – Translation, 1973
Presented at "Translation 73," a conference on the present state of literary translation, Columbia University, March 30, 1973. (DD)
Descriptors: English, Language Fluency, Language Patterns, Language Rhythm
Download full textKeller, Eric; Zellner, Brigitte – York Papers in Linguistics, 1996
A three-tiered statistical model for predicting the temporal structure of French, as produced by a single, highly fluent subject at a fast speech rate, is outlined. The first tier models segmental influences due to phoneme type and contextual interactions between phoneme types. The second tier models syllable-level influences of lexical versus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Language Fluency, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedScanlan, Timothy – Foreign Language Annals, 1987
Reviews the different categories of native pauses and describes techniques for incorporating them cautiously into the spoken French of anglophones (especially Americans), suggesting that proper pause behavior is actually a definite mark of authentic sounding and well-controlled speech. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), French, Language Fluency
Peer reviewedvon Raffler Engel, W.; Sigelman, C. K. – Language Sciences, 1971
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Cultural Differences, Language Acquisition, Language Fluency
Arellano, Sonya I.; Draper, Jean E. – 1970
This study explores the relationships between a child's discriminatory abilities in the areas of pitch, intensity, rhythm, timbre, and tonal memory and his capacity to comprehend and speak the Spanish language. The Spanish accent is analyzed on the basis of intonation, stress, sinalepha, and phone production. These factors were tested both in…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Aptitude Tests, Articulation (Speech), Basic Skills
