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Acquisition of the Closing Diphthongs /əʊ/ and /eɪ/ in English L2 and Jamaican Creole

SAGE Open, 2015
This study investigates the claim that the strategies used by second/foreign language learners are, more or less, the same as those used by speakers of pidgin/creole languages.
Ahmed Mousa
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Ontronding in wit en bruin Afrikaans

Literator, 1994
The aim of this presentation is firstly to describe the phenomenon of delabialization of abnormal front vowels in Afrikaans, concentrating on the language of a few white and brown native speakers, and secondly to shed some light on the theoretical ...
D. Wissing
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Formant Trajectory Dynamics In Swabian Diphthongs

, 1997
The vowel quality in some diphthongs of Swabian (an upper German dialect) was determined by measurement of first and second formant values. A minimal contrast could be shown between two different diphthong qualities /Ae/ and /i/, where for Standard ...
Sprachliche Kommunikation, Anja Geumann
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Ditongos nasais na perspetiva de aprendentes de português em Itália

Lidil
The hypothesis of this study is based on the influence of L1 knowledge and spelling in the awareness that Italian learners of Portuguese L2 have of the nasal diphthongs [ɐ̃j̃] and [ɐ̃w̃] in the third person plural of the Simple Present and the ...
Cláudia Alexandra Moreira da Silva
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Error Analysis in Pronouncing English Words Containing Diphthong Sounds Made by EFL Students

Journal of English Education and Teaching
This research aims to find out the ability in pronouncing diphthong sounds /ai/, /ei/and /oi/ the English Department Students of the English Education Study Program at the University of Bengkulu. This research was descriptive quantitative analysis.
Tia Suciati, Ildi Kurniawan, Elfrida Elfrida   +2 more
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Acoustic measurements and intelligibility of English vowels produced by Thai speakers

Studies in English Language and Education
Effective English communication across different languages and cultures has become increasingly important in a globalised world. To gain a deeper understanding of the segmental features of Thai speakers of English, this study aims to investigate the ...
Kamonnate Iadkert, Roshidah Hassan, Azirah Hashim   +2 more
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The range and beauty of internal reconstruction: probing Hausa linguistic history

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2014
Using examples from Hausa, this paper demonstrates the probative value of Internal Reconstruction (IR) as a method for unearthing linguistic history. Five developments in the history of Hausa discovered by means of IR are described.
Paul Newman
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BR1-066 - Consonant wordlist and diphthongs

Consonant wordlist and some diphthongs with MK.

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Het Vriezenveens : Waar komt het vandaan? Waar gaat het heen?

Brünner Beiträge zur Germanistik und Nordistik, 2016
The Vriezenveen Dialect. Where Does it Come from? Where Does it Go to? The village of Vriezenveen (not far from Almelo in Twente, an eastern region of the Netherlands) has a dialect that differs from its neighbouring dialects in a number of features. For
Cor van Bree
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An Acoustic Analysis of Diphthongs in Pakistani and British English [PDF]

This study investigates the acoustic differences in closing diphthongs between Pakistani English and Standard British Pronunciation. Both quantitative and qualitative research design were employed, and speech samples were collected from 20 participants ...
Farhana Mahjabeen,Tayyaba Ishtiaq,Dr. Ali Hussain Bin Sadiq
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