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Baills, Florence; Prieto, Pilar – Language Teaching Research, 2023
This study tested the effects of hand-clapping to the rhythm of newly learned French words on the pronunciation of these words by 7- to 8-year-old Catalan children. In a short training experiment with a pre- and posttest design, 28 children either repeated cognate words in French (e.g. French "aspirateur," Catalan "aspirador"…
Descriptors: French, Language Rhythm, Motor Reactions, Pronunciation
Delattre, Pierre – IRAL, 1969
Results of study indicate that vowel reduction is much more marked in English than in French, German or Spanish and that each one of the four languages offers a reduction pattern of its own. (Author/FWB)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Articulation (Speech), Contrastive Linguistics, English
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Benguerel, Andre-Pierre – Language and Speech, 1971
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), French, Intonation, Language Patterns
Dolbec, Jean, Ed.; Ouellet, Marise, Ed. – 1996
The collection of essays on phonetics and phonology, entirely in French, includes: "Le calcul de la frequence intrinseque. Necessite du rapport a une ligne de reference" (calculation of intrinsic frequency; necessity of a line of reference) (Conrad Ouellon); "Caracteristiques microprosodiques de duree et d'intensite en lecture et en…
Descriptors: African Languages, Arabic, Bulgarian, Consonants
Lee, Sook-Hyang, Ed.; Jun, Sun-Ah, Ed. – Working Papers in Linguistics, 1994
This collection of papers on linguistic experiments includes: "Initial Tones and Prominence in Seoul Korean" (Ken de Jong); "The Domains of Laryngeal Feature Lenition Effects in Chonnam Korean" (Sun-Ah Jun); "The Timing of Lip Rounding and Tongue Backing for /u/" Gina M. Lee); "Prosody and Intrasyllabic Timing in…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Akan, Arabic, Articulation (Speech)