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Morett, Laura M.; Nelson, Cailee M.; Hughes-Berheim, Sarah S.; Scofield, Jason – First Language, 2023
This research investigated whether observing beat gesture and hearing contrastive accenting with novel words enhances their learning in early childhood and whether these effects differ by sex in light of sex differences in the pace of language development. Fifty-three 3- to 5-year-old boys and girls learned pairs of novel words with contrasting…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Gender Differences, Pronunciation, Language Variation
Rojas, David Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Systematic differences among regional U.S. English speech are recognizable to native speakers to varying degrees. This has been demonstrated by researchers in perceptual dialectology who ask listeners to match a speaker to his or her dialect region. Machines have also been able to identify the regional origin of a speaker to some degree, although…
Descriptors: Dialects, Sociolinguistics, Phonemes, Identification