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The Politeness Prosody of the Javanese Directive Speech [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This experimental phonetic research deals with the prosodies of directive speech in Javanese. The research procedures were: (1) speech production, (2) acoustic analysis, and (3) perception test.
Rahyono, F. X. (F)
core  

Indexing Power Through Self‐Reference: Electoral Margins and the Use of Běnxí Among Taiwanese Parliamentarians

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how Taiwanese members of parliament (MPs) deploy self‐referring expressions—specifically, the formal first‐person singular běnxí—to negotiate their institutional standing and project political power. By operationalizing access to objective power using the margin of victory (MoV) as one possible proxy, the research shows ...
Tsung‐Lun Alan Wan
wiley   +1 more source

Von Kempelen et al. : remarks on the history of articulatory-acoustic modelling [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The contribution of von Kempelen’s “Mechanism of Speech” to the ‘phonetic sciences‘ will be analyzed with respect to his theoretical reasoning on speech and speech production on the one hand and on the other in connection with his practical insights ...
Pompino-Marschall, Bernd
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Journalists’ Use of Gender‐Inclusive Language in German Youth Radio: Ethnographic Insights From On‐ and Off‐Air Communication

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The use of gender‐inclusive language (GIL) in German is frequently examined in linguistics and related fields. While journalistic texts are often the central element of such analyses, research on the actual language users – the journalists – and their complex linguistic practices behind the scenes is rather scarce.
Sarah Josefine Schaefer
wiley   +1 more source

Eye Movements, Item Modality, and Multimodal Second Language Vocabulary Learning: Processing and Outcomes

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examined second language vocabulary processing and learning in reading only (RO) versus reading while listening (RWL). 119 English learners read or read‐while‐listening to a story embedded with 25 pseudowords, 10 times each, and had their eye movements tracked.
Jonathan Malone   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Scopes of Experimental-phonetic Analysis

open access: yesTheory and Practice in Language Studies, 2016
The article investigates the nature of prosodic features of speech. The discussed problem has always been interested the linguists for many years. The prosodic features such as length, accent and stress, tone, intonation and others are analysesd in the article. The article states that from the beginning of the investigation of these features were based
openaire   +1 more source

An analysis of the McKee phonetic inventory for grade three. [PDF]

open access: yes, 1959
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston ...
Campbell, Margaret Helen   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Children's Foreign Word Recognition at First Exposure: The Role of Phonological Similarity and Utterance Position

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract The current study examined how children apply their phonological knowledge to recognize translation equivalents in a foreign language. Target words for recognition were either phonologically similar (cognate) or dissimilar (noncognate) to words they already knew in their first language.
Katie Von Holzen, Rochelle S. Newman
wiley   +1 more source

Head Gestures Do Not Serve as Precursors of Prosodic Focus Marking in the Second Language as They Do in the First Language

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Research shows that children use head gestures to mark discourse focus before developing the required prosodic cues in their first language (L1), and their gestures affect the prosodic parameters of their speech. We investigated whether head gestures also act as precursors and bootstrappers of prosodic focus marking in second language (L2 ...
Lieke van Maastricht   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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