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Review of Prosodies. With Special Reference to Iberian Languages. Edited by Sónia Frota, Marina Vigário & Maria João Freitas (2005). Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

open access: yesJournal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2007
The volume under review contains the written versions of twelve of the pres-entations at the first Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia (PaPI) conference. I wrote this review shortly after attending the third PaPI in Braga in 2007.
Carlos Gussenhoven
doaj   +2 more sources

L2 Korean Phonology: the acquisition of stops by English-and Finnish-speaking adults [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The purpose of this thesis is to find the reason why attaining nativelike pronunciation is difficult in adult L2A. This thesis attempts to take a purely linguistic approach to find it by hypothising that the acquisition of segmental phonology is more ...
Kim, Jeong Young
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M is for Apple: Biliteracy for Pre‐Service Teachers

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This qualitative study explores the dynamics between pre‐service and cooperating teachers, emphasizing the need to shift traditional power structures. It highlights the value of pre‐service teachers' biliteracy knowledge and the importance of reflective practice.
Jennifer Arcila
wiley   +1 more source

Weight gradience and stress in Portuguese [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper examines the role of weight in stress assignment in the Portuguese lexicon, and proposes a probabilistic approach to stress. I show that weight effects are gradient, and weaken monotonically as we move away from the right edge of the word ...
Garcia, Guilherme Duarte   +2 more
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Optimizing the Effectiveness of Captioned Viewing for Incidental Second Language Vocabulary Learning: The Effects of Repeated Viewing and Reading Fluency

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examined the effects of repeated viewing and reading fluency on incidental second language vocabulary acquisition through captioned video exposure. A total of 149 Japanese EFL learners watched a short animation with or without captions, varying in the number of repetitions (once, twice, or three times).
Satsuki Kurokawa, Takumi Uchihara
wiley   +1 more source

Unification and Transduction in Computational Phonology [PDF]

open access: yes, 1988
In this paper unification and transduction mechanisms are applied in a new approach to phonological parsing. It is shown that unification in the sense of Kay as used in unification grammars, and transduction, a process deriving from automata theory, are ...
Julie Carson, In Phonology
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Loanword adaptation as first-language phonological perception [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
We show that loanword adaptation can be understood entirely in terms of phonological and phonetic comprehension and production mechanisms in the first language. We provide explicit accounts of several loanword adaptation phenomena (in Korean) in terms of
Boersma, P.   +5 more
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Cumulative Testing for Learning Spoken Vocabulary

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Cumulative testing is known to improve vocabulary learning by integrating both new and previously introduced words in weekly quizzes. While evidence for its benefits is promising, prior research has primarily focused on the written mode of vocabulary, with target words studied, practiced, and tested in the visual mode only.
Ryo Maie, Takumi Uchihara
wiley   +1 more source

The phonology of A'ingae [PDF]

open access: yesLanguage and Linguistics Compass
Abstract A'ingae (or Cofán, ISO 639‐3: con) is an indigenous language isolate spoken in northeast Ecuador and southern Colombia. This paper presents the first comprehensive overview of the A'ingae phonology, including descriptions of (i) the language's phonemic inventory ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Multiple scansions in loanword phonology: Evidence from Cantonese [PDF]

open access: yes, 1991
In loanword phonology we seek to uncover the processes by which speakers possessing one phonological system perceive, apply native representational constraints on, and ultimately produce forms which have been generated by a different phonological system.
Daniel Silverman, Silverman, Daniel
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