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Download full textWigfield, Jack – 1975
This paper compares the tone systems of Vietnamese and English, with emphasis on the teaching of English as a second language. Rising, level, high, low, and falling tones are identified for English. Vietnamese has all of these except the last. While in Vietnamese, tones are predictable in the sense that tones and words go together, English tones…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Intonation
Abraham, R. C. – 1967
This analysis of Ibo is not intended as a definitive work, but rather represents a novel approach to the description of the phonology and grammar of this language. The analysis is organized under the following headings: (1) "Sounds"; (2) "Tones"; (3) "Words Beginning in a Consonant"; (4) "Plurals"; (5) "Possessives"; (6) "As To"; (7) "Numerals";…
Descriptors: African Languages, Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages)
