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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"American English Speakers"”.
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The Effect of Hyperarticulation on the Perception of Palatalization in Russian by L1 American English Speakers
… (casual and hyperarticulated). Forty-one L1 American English speakers – the students of the Russian program at The University of Mississippi – took part in two experiments. In addition, the research aimed to explore the influence of a hyperarticulated speech condition on a level of language …
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The effects of culturally-based computer software on the motivation and academic engagement of African American English speakers
… to respond to the educational demands of African American English (AAE) speakers based on standardized measures (Carnoy, Loeb & Smith, 2001). There is also a need to fill the gaps in our existing knowledge base of the effects of culturally and linguistically responsive intervention on achievement …
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Speech recognition of foreign accent
… words to detect foreign accents in spoken American English. The study involves thirty-one native American English speakers, and six native Brazilian speakers. Five different distance measures are used for classification. Results show that correct classification is obtained for 88 % of the …
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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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Discrimination of Tone Contrasts in Mandarin Disyllables by Naïve American English Listeners
… of Mandarin disyllabic tones by inexperienced American English speakers. Participants heard two naturally-produced Mandarin disyllables, and indicated if the two were the same or different. A small native Mandarin-speaking control group participated as well. All 21 possible Mandarin contrasts …
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Ultrasound Visual Biofeedback and Accent Modification: Effects on Consonant and Vowel Accuracy for Mandarin English Language Learners
… the United States who speak languages other than English continues to increase. With the increase of language diversity comes a potential rise in communication challenges for those who speak with non-mainstream American English accents as English language learners. A portion of these individuals …
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A comparison of Chinese and American student academic email requests to faculty in higher education in the United States
… their L1 pragmatic norms when writing emails to American English speakers. To contribute to the understanding of email requests in the institutional context of university settings, this study combines speech act research with discourse analysis methodology to examine how native speakers of …
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The Influence of Computer Electronic Mail (CEM) on the Performance and Competence of Middle Level English as a Second Language (ESL) Students in the State of Kuwait
… (CEM) as a tool for the teaching and learning of English as a second language (ESL). The participants in the study consisted of 26 students (18 females and 8 males) selected from the population of full time middle-level students of English as a Second Language Kuwaiti Students (ESLKS) in Kuwait …
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Prosodically Induced Acoustic Variation in English, Korean, and Hindi
… results from speech production experiments on English, Korean and Hindi that examine factors governing acoustic variation. The focus of this research is the patterns of variation in the acoustic expression of laryngeal phonological contrasts among stop consonants and supralaryngeal contrasts …
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Speech Rate, Pause, and Linguistic Variation: an Examination through the Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project
… speech rate and silent pause duration by North American English speakers of four ethnicities in North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Washington, DC, and Newfoundland. This work brings a wide range of previous research from different areas of sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and corpus linguistics to …