Abstract We analyze Asian American comedian Ali Wong's linguistic and embodied performance in her 2016 stand‐up special, Baby Cobra, through a genre‐specific lens to investigate how stand‐up comedy's performance conventions shape her comedic persona. We argue that Wong uses communicative forms indexically associated with Blackness to perform racialized
Kendra Calhoun, Joyhanna Yoo
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The Production of the english interdental fricatives by brazilian former and future EFL teachers [PDF]
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente, Florianópolis, 2010The present study investigated the production of the English ...
Trevisol, Juliane Regina
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Substituição na produção de /ɵ/ e /ð/ por falantes do português: uma análise não linear [PDF]
The present work describes the production of the Interdental Fricatives of the English language by Brazilian Portuguese speakers (BP) who are learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in the Foreign Language Program of UFPA/ILC/FALEM.
PINTO, Antonio Sergio da Costa
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TESOL versus SLP Techniques for the Development of L2 English Pronunciation [PDF]
This study investigated the techniques used in Teaching English of Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and Speech-language Pathology (SLP) fields for the development of English pronunciation. First, a four-week, one-on-one training (one hour twice a week)
Li, Yingya
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Complex Spanish Consonant Phonemes for Chinese Learners: a Contrastive Study of Spanish and Chinese Phonetics [PDF]
El español y el chino son dos lenguas muy distantes entre sí, lo que puede generar problemas a la hora de enseñarlo y aprenderlo. Una de esas dificultades se encuentra en la fonética, un aspecto de la destreza oral muchas veces dejado de lado por no ...
Cubas Godoy, Raquel
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Confusión grafemático-fonológica en las silibantes, según documentación inédita de la Baja-Navarra (siglos XIV-XV) [PDF]
As is well known, one of the characteristic features of Spanish is the way it altered a series of medieval sibilants that were shared from the XII to the XV centuries by Portugese, Catalan, French and Occitane.
Ciérbide, Ricardo
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An Acoustic Analysis of the Different Realization of the (th) Sounds in Serbian Pronunciation of English [PDF]
This study investigates several acoustic correlates of the phonetic realizations of [0] and [o] produced by Serbian speakers of English. The impressionistic phonetic transcriptions and aural perception accounts indicate that Serbians have difficulty ...
Marinovic, Jovana
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The Effect of Listener Experience and Social Expectation on Illusory Percepts [PDF]
Listeners’ expectations and predictions about their interlocutors during the course of speech perception have had a central role in the development of sociophonetic models of speech perception. These models emphasize that listeners use their expectations
Craft, Justin
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Lenition of the segment /-d/ in the Spanish imperative [PDF]
En español, se documenta un uso popular, no aceptado por la norma, que consiste en sustituir los imperativos de segunda persona del plural (cantad) por un infinitivo (cantar).
Mateo Segura, Beatriz
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The linguistic relationship between Southern and Northern Ndebele [PDF]
Thesis (DLitt)--University of Pretoria, 2010.This study investigates the linguistic relationship between Southern and Northern Ndebele. The focus is on the historical background of the two main South African Ndebele groups, covering various linguistic ...
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