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Chládková, Katerina; Šimácková, Šárka – Language Learning, 2021
Distributional learning is typically understood as (unattended) tracking of stimulus probabilities. Distributional training with speech yields mixed results and the influencing factors have not yet been fully investigated. This study explored whether prior linguistic experience could have an effect on distributional learning outcomes. Czech and…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Native Language, Greek, Slavic Languages
Michael Obiri-Yeboah – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation documents and analyzes phonetic and phonological features of Gua, an under-documented, understudied and nearly-endangered Guang language, spoken in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The language has two dialects, Anum and Boso. The data for this dissertation is from the Boso dialect spoken in the Boso community. The dissertation…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Phonology, Vowels, Oral Language
Annie Grey Helms – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation analyzes the production and perception of lexical stress in trilinguals' first, second, and third languages (L1, L2, and L3) to evaluate how the cue-weighting transfer hypothesis applies to L3 acquisition. According to this hypothesis, acoustic cues to stress have different weights across languages, and results from both…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Acoustics, Cues
Kerry Christine McCullough – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation investigates a typologically rare linguistic phenomenon found in Irish from three different perspectives: how it challenges phonological theory, how it is used by contemporary speakers, and how its written representation affects its acquisition. Initial consonant mutation (ICM), as it appears in the Celtic languages, is known to…
Descriptors: Phonology, Irish, Pronunciation, Language Research
Lochland, Paul – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020
This paper investigates the phonology of L2 speech and its impact on intelligibility in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) contexts. Many studies have considered speaker-related characteristics, such as speech styles and pronunciation features, that influence the intelligibility of L2 speech for both nonnative speakers (NNS) and native speakers…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Classification
Hyunah Baek – ProQuest LLC, 2020
To avoid potential miscommunication resulting from structural ambiguity, speakers and listeners often rely on differences in prosodic realization. For instance, the sentence "Jennifer blackmailed the boss of the clerk [who was dishonest"][subscript RC'] is realized with different prosody depending on the attachment of the relative clause…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Korean, Language Classification
Hyman, Larry M. – Language Sciences, 2009
In this paper I argue for a property-driven approach to phonological typology. Rather than seeking to classify or label languages, the central goal of phonological typology is to determine how different languages systematize the phonetic substance available to all languages. The paper focuses on a very murky area in phonological typology,…
Descriptors: Tone Languages, Language Classification, Phonology, Phonetics
Llama, Raquel; Cardoso, Walcir; Collins, Laura – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2010
Research in the field of third language acquisition has consistently identified two key factors which have an effect on the ways in which the two known languages may influence the acquisition of a third. These factors are language distance (typology) and language status (more specifically, second language, L2, or non-native language status). To…
Descriptors: Phonology, Word Lists, Spanish, Second Language Learning
Cuetos, Fernando; Suarez-Coalla, Paz – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
The relationship between written words and their pronunciation varies considerably among different orthographic systems, and these variations have repercussions on learning to read. Children whose languages have deep orthographies must learn to pronounce larger units, such as rhymes, morphemes, or whole words, to achieve the correct pronunciation…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Pronunciation, Phonology, Morphemes

Lodge, Ken – Journal of Linguistics, 1986
Presents an analysis of colloquial-spoken Thai, showing how different tempi can be interrelated. Analysis of language processes, deletion paths, and syllable structure leads to the conclusion that phonological processes found synchronically in related but different rates of delivery should be captured by a universally applicable rule with certain…
Descriptors: Consonants, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Classification, Language Patterns
Skaer, Peter M. – 1984
A language typology based on common errors made in pronunciation of English by speakers of other languages is presented and discussed. The classification system was developed from the concept of interlanguage, the intermediate step between a language learner's native and target languages, and the notion that interference in learning a new language…
Descriptors: Amharic, Cambodian, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
Ferguson, Charles A. – 1971
This paper constitutes the fifth chapter of the forthcoming volume "Language in Ethiopia." In an effort to better define the particular linguistic area, the author analyzes phonological and grammatical features that languages in the area have in common. A number of features have been identified as characteristic of the area, and this…
Descriptors: Amharic, Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)
Underwood, Gary N. – 1973
What has been labelled mainstream dialectology has been criticized soundly on theoretical grounds, yet mainstream dialectologists have responded with the assertion that their critics have not been intimately familiar with dialect methodology and are therefore not qualified to criticize. Claiming that while theoretical issues are far from being…
Descriptors: Atlases, Dialect Studies, Geographic Distribution, Language Classification