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Showing 1 to 20 of 140 for “"American English"”.
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A study of vowels /ɛ/ and /ɪ/ in African American English and standard American English
… /ɪ/ as in tin and /ɛ/ as in ten in African American English (AAE) and Standard American English (SAE) spoken in the Detroit, Michigan area. I first analyzed the acoustic properties of a number of speech samples to determine vowel quality and duration measurements. I then performed speech …
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A characterization of American English intonation.
Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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African-American Attitudes Concerning African-American English
… significant studies done on the topic of African-American English. For the past quarter-century, a controversy over the recognition, value and use of African-American English has captured the attention of media, professionals, educators and parents nationwide. This study examined the opinions of …
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Differential Listener Perceptions of African -American English
A total of 210 undergraduates attending three universities in Chicago and in two western suburbs participated in the study. The participants were administered a 22-item questionnaire to determine their attitudes toward AAE speakers. It was found that taking courses in cultural diversity that …
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Invitations in American English and Mandarin Chinese
… been motivated by Wolfson's series of studies on American English invitations, and is intended to investigate the similarities and differences in the invitation patterns of speakers of American English and Mandarin Chinese with two research questions in mind: 1) To what extent do native American …
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Speech Aerodynamics of American English and Japanese Speakers
… across group and across gender for seven American English speakers and seven Japanese speakers. Estimated subglottal air pressure, laryngeal air flow, and laryngeal airway resistance were measured during a syllable production task, and volume per syllable was measure during a sentence …
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Taboo lexeme conditioning and obscenities in American English
… describe the most potent taboos of a culture. American English Obscenities meet all of these criterion: 1) they exhibit independent, nonpropositional limbic activation, as seen in brain imaging of patients with neurological damage or disorders; 2) they receive highly negative emotional …
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Speech Rhythm in American English: A Corpus Study
This dissertation investigates speech rhythm in American English based on the speech from the Boston University Radio News corpus, comparing the patterns of rhythmic shortening in two different types of prosodic domains, the ISI (inter-stress interval) and the IAI (inter-accent interval). The main …
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Acoustic correlates of word stress in American English
… Results from male native speakers of American English show that when the high focal pitch accent was on the novel word, vowel differences in pitch, intensity prominence, and amplitude of the first harmonic, H1 * (corrected for the effect of the vocal tract filter), accurately …
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A Corpus-based Approach to Determining Standard American English
… to determine what is correct standard written American English. Unfortunately, though, experts often disagree about what is correct and what is incorrect, and this disagreement can create problems with validity when people create and assess instruction about usage. One way to discover the rules …
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The structure of variation in spontaneous American English stops
One of the inherent characteristics of speech is that the same discrete units like phonemes, syllables, or words appear vastly different in the articulatory and acoustic domain. Acoustic variation can be thought of as the consequence of various forces driving speech production, including production …
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Analysis and synthesis of the American English lateral constant
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.
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ISOLATING EFFECTS OF PERCEPTUAL ANALYSIS AND SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT ON CHILDREN’S COMPREHENSION OF TWO DIALECTS OF ENGLISH, AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH AND GENERAL AMERICAN ENGLISH
… gap in literacy achievement between African American and European American students (e.g., NAEP, 2019, 2022). A large body of research has examined different factors that continue to reinforce performance differences across students. One variable that has been a long-term interest to …
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Mary/merry and horse/hoarse: Mergers in Southern American English
Phonetic mergers in American English have been studied throughout the last half century. Previous research has contributed social and phonetic explanations to the understanding of front and back vowel mergers before /l/, front vowel mergers before nasals and phonetically unconditioned back vowel …
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Capturing the Significance of African American English (AAE): An Insider Perspective
… study that explores the ways in which African American English (AAE) speakers understand and use their own language. The study is based on 10 individual interviews with participants who self-identified as fluent speakers of AAE and Mainstream American English (i.e., Standard English). …
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Variation In African American English: The Great Migration And Regional Differentiation
While African American English is among the best studied language varieties, it was historically taken to be relatively uniform, and it is only recently that regional variation in AAE has become an object of sustained study among sociolinguists. There has been as of yet no comprehensive, …
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