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Comparing timing models of two Swiss German dialects [PDF]
, 2010 Research on dialectal varieties was for a long time concentrated on phonetic aspects of language. While there was a lot of work done on segmental aspects, suprasegmentals remained unexploited until the last few years, despite the fact that prosody was ...
Siebenhaar, Beat
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Most research into the relationships of linguistic complexity and accuracy to functional adequacy has focused on either spoken or written mode. The current study extended previous studies by investigating these associations across both modalities and how the nature of these relationships was influenced by learners’ L2 proficiency and task type.
Xiaojun Lu, Yui Suzukida
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Evaluating Pronunciation Textbooks
HOW, 2016 The purpose of this article is to present an evaluation of six textbooks on pronunciation, specifically on how intonation is treated in each textbook. Intonation has been chosen because as Kelly (2000) states: "There are languages in which intonation has
Ana Clara Sánchez Solarte +1 more
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Zilbes intonāciju stabilitāte divu paaudžu laikā
Baltistica, 2011 STABILITY OF SYLLABLE INTONATION IN TWO GENERATIONS Material for the history of Latvian intonationsSummaryThe purpose of this study is to investigate: 1) the retention of the Latvian language syllable intonation in the course of an individual's lifetime,
Velta Rūķe-Draviņa
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, 2006 The X_System makes the playing, writing, and learning of music – even when using unconventional tunings – more intuitive, more logical, more expressive, and better sounding. The X_System allows for: • different temperaments to be chosen at the flick of
Milne, Andrew +2 more
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Peer collaboration is an essential part of learning in mixed‐age (M‐A) classrooms, and the same applies to writing and learning grammar in the secondary school curriculum. Although a growing body of research has shown language learning benefits of collaborative writing (CW), only very few have been conducted with secondary school students ...
Tomáš Kos, Friedrich Zoe Lara
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Speech intonation in Persian declarative sentences
مجله پژوهش در علوم توانبخشی, 2011 Introduction: Considered as an important factor in communication, prosody is composed of a number of features including intonation, pitch, stress, rhythm and duration, among others.
Maryam Nikravesh, Mahshid Aghajanzade
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Structuring information through gesture and intonation [PDF]
, 2005 Face-to-face communication is multimodal. In unscripted spoken discourse we can observe the interaction of several “semiotic layers”, modalities of information such as syntax, discourse structure, gesture, and intonation.
Jannedy, Stefanie, Mendoza-Denton, Norma
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Automatic prosodic clustering of humpback whales song
, 2008 6pWe automatically segmented a humpback whale song using the Roger Payne's principle of sound unit and we patterned and automatically classified intonations of sound units thanks to an unsupervised algorithm to describe recurrent patterns.
Adam, Olivier +4 more
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores how multimodal input modes affect young EFL learners’ incidental collocation learning performance and experience. A total of 97 EFL learners (aged 12–13) in a Chinese secondary school were randomly assigned to two multimodal groups (reading‐while‐listening and viewing‐with‐captions) and a reading‐only group (as a control ...
Pu Pu +2 more
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