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Learner Perspective on English Pronunciation Teaching in an EFL Context [PDF]

, 2013
On the basis of the findings, the learners do not seem to have aspirations to native-like pronunciation, but rather aim at achieving intelligible and fluent speech. Only few reported an accent preference (British or American).
Breitkreutz, Breitkreutz, Burgess, Burgess, Celce, Celce, Cenoz, Cenoz, Cunningham, Cunningham, Cunningsworth, Cunningsworth, Dalton, Dalton, Denzin, Denzin, Derwing, Derwing, Elina Tergujeff, Fontana, Fontana, Foote, Foote, Fraser, Fraser, Gilbert, Gilbert, Henderson, Henderson, Iivonen, Iivonen, Iivonen, Iivonen, Janicka, Janicka, Jenkins, Jenkins, Jones, Jones, Kachru, Kachru, Kumpulainen, Kumpulainen, Kvale, Kvale, Kääntä, Kääntä, Leppänen, Leppänen, Lintunen, Lintunen, Luukka, Luukka, Macdonald, Macdonald, Morley, Morley, Pihko, Pihko, Purcell, Purcell, Saito, Saito, Suomi, Suomi, Suter, Suter, Tergujeff, Tergujeff, Tergujeff, Tergujeff, Tergujeff, Tergujeff, Waniek, Waniek, Waniek, Waniek, Waniek, Waniek, Wells, Wells   +80 more
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Le discours rapporté dans un corpus d’anglais oral : formes et frontières

E-REA, 2019
This paper investigates the intonational phrasing of reported speech clauses. It is based on the acoustic analysis of an oral corpus drawn from the radio (BBC Radio for British English and National Public Radio for American English) which has been ...
Sylvie HANOTE
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The Unsupervised Acquisition of a Lexicon from Continuous Speech [PDF]

, 1995
We present an unsupervised learning algorithm that acquires a natural-language lexicon from raw speech. The algorithm is based on the optimal encoding of symbol sequences in an MDL framework, and uses a hierarchical representation of language that ...
de Marcken, Carl
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Saillance des îlots textuels dans un corpus de presse britannique sur le Brexit et conséquences interprétatives associées

Anglophonia
The purpose of this contribution is to examine, in a British press corpus of 90 articles dealing with Brexit, the segments inserted between inverted commas within the narrative speech of the journalist (called “îlots textuels” in French) and to highlight
Laure Cataldo
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Language Modeling with Highway LSTM

, 2017
Language models (LMs) based on Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) have shown good gains in many automatic speech recognition tasks. In this paper, we extend an LSTM by adding highway networks inside an LSTM and use the resulting Highway LSTM (HW-LSTM) model ...
Kurata, Gakuto, Ramabhadran, Bhuvana, Saon, George, Sethy, Abhinav   +3 more
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Developing professional learning for staff working with children with speech, language and communication needs combined with moderate-to-severe learning difficulties [PDF]

, 2010
Children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) often present challenges in interaction where teachers may need specialist knowledge. In this article, Carolyn Anderson of the University of Strathclyde examines how teachers and classroom ...
Bolton, Boud, Boud, Carpenter, Coupe O'Kane, Davis, Dewey, Edwards, Eraut, Eraut, Glazer, Hammersley-Fletcher, Harris, Julian, Kennedy, Kolb, Malcolm, Manolson, McClarty, Menmuir, Miller, Nind, Olivero, Rose, Schuck, Schön, SEED (Scottish Executive Education Department), Shields, Warren, Yoder, Zeichner   +30 more
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Vozes em embate na mídia de informação e produção da objetividade: polêmicas em torno da precarização do trabalho na escola Voices in struggle in information media discourses and the production of objectivity: on precarization of work in school

DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2011
Neste artigo, procedemos à análise de modos de produção de sentidos sobre o trabalho dos profissionais de Educação do ensino médio na mídia impressa, a partir de uma perspectiva enunciativa.
Bruno Deusdará, Décio Rocha
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Papa, maman : noms propres ou noms de parenté ordinaires ?

Discours, 2018
This paper is devoted to some uses of papa [dad], maman [mom] without a determiner, some naked uses in which they refer to a third person’s father or mother, like a possessive anaphoric phrase such as his father or his dad, or to a member of a family ...
Mathilde Salles
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Multilingual Repertoires at Play: Structure and Function in Reported Speech Utterances of Alyawarr Children

Languages, 2021
While there is increasing international interest in approaching language analysis with the prism of repertoire, research on repertoire on the Australian continent is still very much in the shadow of “traditional” language-centric documentary work.
Sally Dixon
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Rhythm in the speech of a person with right hemisphere damage: Applying the pairwise variability index [PDF]

, 2007
Although several aspects of prosody have been studied in speakers with right hemisphere damage (RHD), rhythm remains largely uninvestigated. This study compares the rhythm of an Australian English speaker with right hemisphere damage (due to a stroke ...
Abercrombie D, Ackermann H., Behrens S. J, Charcot J, Crystal D, Dankovičová J., Dauer R. M, Edmunds L. A., Fischer-Jørgensen E., Fletcher J., Gay T, Grabe E., Halliday M. A. K, Horvath B. M, Kent R. D., Low E. L., Monrad-Krohn G. H, Monrad-Krohn G. H, Peterson G. E., Pike K. L, Ramus F., Raven J. C, Roach P, Roach P, Ross E. D, Smith A, Trask R. L, Wechsler D, Wells J. C, White L., Whitworth N   +30 more
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