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Schmid, Beata – Language Learning, 1986
A study compared the Swedish tone accent acquisition of native-speaking children (N=2) and nonnative speaking college students (N=12). Both groups overgeneralized one pitch pattern to all bisyllabic words. Children used "Accent 2" (two-peaked) and adults "Accent 1" (one-peaked), analogous to the prevailing patterns of their…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Intonation

Abrahamsson, Niclas – Language Learning, 1999
This case study investigated whether patterns obtained from elicited speech also hold for conversational data. A longitudinal corpus of spontaneous/natural speech from an adult first-language Spanish learner of second-language Swedish is studied. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Interlanguage, Language Patterns
Nordenstam, Kerstin – 1990
A study investigated the use of tag questions in the private conversations of Swedish men and women. Conversations took place in single-gender dyads (six with two men and six with two women) and six mixed-gender dyads. Informants were aged approximately 25 or approximately 50, of different social classes, chosen by random selection, and asked to…
Descriptors: Adults, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication
Seferoglu, Golge C. – 1995
This study analyzed the pronunciation of English interdental fricatives by two native speakers of Turkish, focusing on whether there was systematic variation of forms according to the kind of discourse and the surrounding phonemes. Subjects were two adult Turkish learners of English as a Second Language, both of whom had been in the United States…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Kukkonen, Pirkko – 1990
Two studies of adult aphasia, focusing on phonological disturbances, are presented. In the first study, subjects were 15 adults wit moderate aphasia and five age-matched controls. A variety of speech production and speech perception tests were administered, including tests of syllable discrimination, auditive word-picture matching, articulation,…
Descriptors: Adults, Aphasia, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Discrimination
Kim, Julie – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1995
This study examined the ways in which adult, Korean, English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners performed the "request" speech act, with particular attention to deviations caused by negative transfer. An oral discourse completion test with six request situations was given to three groups of learners; situations varied in terms of the…
Descriptors: Adults, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Graduate Students
Kukkonen, Pirkko – 1994
Consonant harmony, a complex phonological assimilation in which segments (usually consonants, but sometimes even vowels) become identical, which occurs in the speech of young children and adult aphasics, is analyzed, particularly as it occurs in Finnish-speakers. Consonant harmony has an articulatory basis: it is a trend toward repetition of the…
Descriptors: Adults, Aphasia, Articulation Impairments, Articulation (Speech)