Differential effects of instruction on the development of second language comprehensibility, word Stress, rhythm, and intonation: the case of inexperienced Japanese EFL learners [PDF]
, 2016 The current study examined in depth the effects of suprasegmental-based instruction on the global (comprehensibility) and suprasegmental (word stress, rhythm, and intonation) development of 10 Japanese English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) learners ...
Saito, Kazuya, Saito, Y.
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Designing and Piloting a Tool for the Measurement of the Use of Pronunciation Learning Strategies [PDF]
, 2010 What appears to be indispensable to drive the field forward and ensure that research findings will be comparable across studies and provide a sound basis for feasible pedagogic proposals is to draw up a classification of PLS and design on that basis a ...
A. Cohen +26 more
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Effects of two teaching methods of connected speech in a Polish EFL classroom [PDF]
, 2016 The results demonstrate that in general, NF proved more effective than NNF. With regard to individual processes of connected speech, NF was more effective in production, whereas no such effect was found for ...
Bell +74 more
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Research in Language, 2023 This paper reports on a study in which Polish first-year university students of English, self-studied the massive open and online course (henceforth MOOC) entitled “Pronunciation in a Global World” to gain some knowledge on the fundamentals of phonetics (
Marta Nowacka
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Tradition et changement phonétique dans une variété de contact : l’anglais de Lewis et Harris
Corela, 2018 From a grammatical and lexical point of view, the variety of English spoken in the Outer Hebrides is akin to Standard Scottish English (SSE). From a phonetic and phonological point of view, however, it is absolutely distinctive, mainly because of the ...
Stephan Wilhelm
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Communicative focus on form and second language suprasegmental learning: teaching Cantonese learners to perceive mandarin tones [PDF]
, 2014 The current study examined how form-focused instruction (FFI) with and without corrective feedback (CF) as output enhancement can facilitate L2 perception of Mandarin tones at both the phonetic and phonological levels in 41 Cantonese learners of Mandarin.
Abramson +22 more
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Prosodic elements to improve pronunciation in English language learners:A short report [PDF]
Applied Research on English Language, 2013 The usefulness of teaching pronunciation in language instruction remains controversial. Though past research suggests that teachers can make little or no difference in improving their studentsâ pronunciation, current findings suggest that second ...
Rachel Adams-Goertel
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Prosody Learning Strategies and What English Philology Students Know about Them
Crossroads, 2013 Although learning strategies are in the focus of attention of both theorists and foreign language teachers, only few scientific descriptions highlight the significance of the prosodic skills and strategies to practice them.
Ewa Lewicka-Mroczek, Dorota Szymaniuk
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Stressed vowel duration and phonemic length contrast [PDF]
, 2012 As far as phonemic length contrast is concerned, we observe a high degree of durational overlap between phonemically long and short vowels in monosyllabic CVC words (which is enforced by a greater pitch excursion), whereas in polysyllables the ...
Ciszewski, Tomasz
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Tonogenesis and the Kickapoo Tonal System
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1980 Voorhis 1967 describes the suprasegmentals of pitch in Kickapoo as a system of "limited and unlimited intonations". The present paper seeks to identify the sentence-level pitch patterns, which correspond to what has usually been called "intonation", and ...
Gathercole, Geoffrey
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