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Fogerty, Daniel; Ahlstrom, Jayne B.; Bologna, William J.; Dubno, Judy R. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2016
Purpose: This study investigated how listeners process acoustic cues preserved during sentences interrupted by nonsimultaneous noise that was amplitude modulated by a competing talker. Method: Younger adults with normal hearing and older adults with normal or impaired hearing listened to sentences with consonants or vowels replaced with noise…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Communication Disorders, Acoustics, Listening
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Catach, Nina – Langue Francaise, 1980
Analyzes the nature of punctuation, its functions (syntactic, suprasegmental, and semantic), its role in written language, and punctuation as grapheme. (AM)
Descriptors: Graphemes, Phonemes, Punctuation, Semantics
O'Malley, Michael H. – 1973
This paper focuses on linguistic prosodic units related to boundaries between syntactic units. Specifically, rules for predicting the location of such boundaries, and factors affecting their location, are discussed. Examples are given on how prosodies can be used for syntactic analysis. Addressing the question of prosodic units and their…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Grammar, Intonation, Language Rhythm
Defense Language Inst., Monterey, CA. – 1974
This contrastive analysis of English and Thai is designed to introduce ESL teachers to many of the differences between Thai and English. The material is intended to assist the teacher in defining the problems that Thai speakers are likely to have in learning English. The introduction includes background information on Thailand and its people. Part…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Contrastive Linguistics, Determiners (Languages), English (Second Language)