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A Survey of an International EFL Coursebook Series in Terms of Pronunciation Treatment [PDF]

Ilha do Desterro
Despite digital advances, coursebooks remain central to language education (Modén et al., 2023), yet pronunciation is still underrepresented (Topal, 2022).
Ibrahim Halil Topal
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Non-manuals and tones : a comparative perspective on suprasegmentals and spreading [PDF]

Linguística, 2016
Sign languages, i.e. language in the visual-gestural modality, are known to make abundant use of grammatical non-manual markers (NMMs) that fulfill functions at all linguistic levels.
Roland Pfau
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THE DURATION AS AN ACOUSTIC CORRELATE OF WORD STRESS IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE AND SPANISH: CHALLENGES FOR TEACHING SUPRASEGMENTAL AND PREPARATION OF TEACHING MATERIALS

Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2014
This paper follows the line of contrastive linguistics and aims to analyze the contrast mechanism that differentiates stressed from unstressed syllables, in Brazilian Portuguesa (BP) and Spanish, in relation to duration.
Letânia Patricio FERREIRA
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Changes in Perceptions of Suprasegmentals in Pronunciation Among Korean EFL learners [PDF]

, 2021
The current study investigates changes in perceptions of suprasegmental features among nine adult Korean learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) after offering three hours of one-on-one pronunciation instruction.
Choi, Yunsun
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Contrastive Analysis in Second-Language Teaching : Spanish Suprasegmentals [PDF]

Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this exploratory study is to find an accepted methodology for teaching second-language suprasegrnentals by investigating the question of whether or not the use of contrastive analysis is superior to another method ...
Hart, Dianne Walta, 1939-
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Self-Study of the MOOC English Pronunciation in a Global World: Metaphonetic Awareness and English Accent Variation

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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Teaching suprasegmentals through strategy use and technology [PDF]

, 2015
textIn an increasingly global world, there is a growing demand for pronunciation instruction. A focus on intelligibility as the goal in pronunciation instruction has risen to the forefront of the literature.
Noble, Emily Marie
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Explicit teaching of segmentals versus suprasegmentals in developing speaking skills by interpreter trainees:An experimental study

, 2019
The present study investigates the effect of explicit teaching of segmentals and suprasegmentals in developing speaking skills for Farsi-English interpreter trainees. Three groups of student interpreters were formed. All were native speakers of Farsi who
Yenkimaleki, Mahmood
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The use of suprasegmentals in the production of emotion-affected speech between native English and native Korean speakers [PDF]

, 2020
This study contributes to the literature investigating emotion in speech by examining the use of suprasegmental features in emotion production in native English and native Korean speakers by studying four specific research questions: (1) do native ...
Coates, Catherine
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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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