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発音指導に関する日本人英語教員対象のアンケート調査：音声知識と指導の実践 [PDF]
, 2018 英語による授業の実施が推進され教員と生徒ともに英語運用能力の向上が求められる中、英語教員の正しい音声知識と適切な発音指導能力の習得が必要不可欠となっている。本研究者らは現役の英語教員がどのような音声指導を行いどれだけの音声知識を有しているかを解明し、改善策を提案することを目的に、2015 年に中学校英語教員に対して発音指導に関するアンケート調査を実施した。100 名の回答によると、大人数クラスで行いやすい全員での発音練習等が実践されることが多い活動であった。また以前と比べ ...
Junko Sugimoto +3 more
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Alzheimer's &Dementia, Volume 21, Issue S2, December 2025.Abstract Background Age related hearing loss (HL) is highly prevalent in older adults and is frequently exacerbated by cognitive decline, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). While speech communication primarily focusses on segmental content, the prosody‐ i.e suprasegmental aspects encompassing rhythm, stress and intonation play a critical role in ...
Deepashri Agrawal +2 more
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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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Human Brain Mapping, Volume 46, Issue 17, 01 December 2025.Functional activation during a task has been suggested to be part of a shared functional architecture between rest and tasks, which is unique to an individual. We here studied how auditory task activation can be predicted in the whole brain and in the auditory cortices from resting‐state functional connectivity.
Christine Ahrends +4 more
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New Perspectives in Teaching Pronunciation [PDF]
, 2008 pp.165 ...
Busà, Maria Grazia
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Neural Coding of Fundamental Frequency and Processing of Discrete Pitch Accents in Middle Age
European Journal of Neuroscience, Volume 62, Issue 9, November 2025.Middle‐aged adults exhibited reduced neural encoding of fundamental frequency (F0) in response to both syllabic and naturalistic speech compared with younger adults. They also showed less distinct cortical processing of pitch accents, reflected by increased classification uncertainty in a neural network model.
Jacie R. McHaney +4 more
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Using metacognitive strategies to raise awareness of stress and intonation
Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal, 2018 Few studies have analyzed the impact of language awareness and metacognitive strategies for intelligibility in the context of English as an international language.
Diana Carolina Peñuela
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Speech Melody Properties in English, Czech and Czech English: Reference and Interference [PDF]
, 2015 Two major objectives were set for the present study: to provide reference data for the description of Czech and English F0 contours, and to investigate the limits of the ‘interference hypothesis’ on Czech English data.
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Clip Voice: Misogyny and the Renegotiation of a Gendered Vocal Style in Chinese Digital Discourse
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 5, Page 348-359, November 2025.ABSTRACT The participatory culture of social media allows women's voices to be heard but also parodied and policed. On Chinese social media platforms, where performers rapidly adopt and transform vocal trends for engagement, discourse on gendered vocal styles has proliferated.
Zichuan Yu, Rebecca Lurie Starr
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Speech Characteristics of Japanese Speakers Affecting American and Japanese Listener Evaluations
Working Papers in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, 2015 The study examines what pronunciation features (i.e., segmental and suprasegmental features, as well as other acoustic properties such as speech rate, intensity, pitch, and pitch range) affect the intelligibility of Japanese learners of English, when ...
Atsuko Kashiwagi, Michael Snyder
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