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Showing 1 to 20 of 234 for “"English speakers"”.
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Analyzing Communication Performance: A Comparison of Native-English Speakers and Non-Native English Speakers
… was to research how well native and non-native English speakers proficiently communicated using learned Air Traffic Control (ATC) phraseology, and how well they communicated using plain phraseology. The participants in this study were <a …
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L2 English Speakers' Acquisition of the Compounding Parameter
U of I Only Restriction set for Item 117526 on 2021-04-14T21:31:49Z with date by madinag@illinois.edu.
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The acquisition of resyllabification in Spanish by English speakers
… which is the norm in some languages, such as English (Bissiri et al., 2011), but not Spanish (Hualde, 2005). For word recognition, models of speech segmentation that emphasize the consonant as a likely segment for the beginning of a word (such as the Possible Word Constraint (Norris et al., …
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Applying New Technologies to Upgrade Non-English Speakers’ English Speaking Skills
… and methods of applying new technologies in English instruction to expose students in a more authentic learning environment and improve their speaking skills.</p>
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Brain plasticity in speech training in native English speakers learning mandarin tones
… Speech (IDS) to train monolingual American English-speaking listeners to perceive Mandarin lexical tones. Behavioral identification and discrimination tasks were conducted using naturally recorded speech, carefully controlled synthetic speech, and non-speech control stimuli. The ERP …
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Loanword and onset consonant cluster perception by L1 Korean/L2 English speakers
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Chinese sentence-final particles and their behaviours in English speakers' L2 Chinese
… SFP) and their features are represented in English speakers’ L2 Chinese. In this research, SFPs are analysed as heads instantiating different positions in the CP domain (Paul 2009, 2014, 2015), which are head-final, and in particular, they are considered to carry semantic, syntactic and …
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Measuring the Systemic Mutual Intelligibility of Five English Speakers: A Socio -Phonological Analysis
Finally, I conclude my study by suggesting that English language teachers deploy a contrastive analysis to help students understand how their ways of speaking differ from standard spoken English and other varieties of English, in preparation for developing appropriate speech accommodation …
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The Relationship Between The Oral Language of Black English Speakers and Their Reading Achievement
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Comparing the interpretation of text message punctuation by native and non-native English speakers
… design to investigate the ways native English speakers and L2 English learners perceive punctuation in text messages. The data set includes responses from a survey, which led participants to rate and describe a series of text messages, and from follow-up interviews, which allowed …
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Segmental phonology and Black South African English speakers : communicative success with standard dialect listeners
… confusion which occurs when Black South African English (BSAE) speakers communicate a list of common English words to speakers of standard South African (StdSAE) English. BSAE and StdSAE subjects were grouped into 10 dyads. BSAE subjects read 120 monosyllabic English words to StdSAE subjects. …
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A sociophonetic investigation of ethnolinguistic differences in voice quality among young, South African English speakers
… in voice quality between black and white speakers of South African English who had attended well-resourced middle-class schools. The principal objective of the study is to address the question of whether there is any acoustic evidence of such differences. The study then proceeds to …
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Size matters : a study of English proficiency levels of educated Maltese English speakers through lexical competence
… of measurable evidence of proficiency levels of English in Malta. This thesis represents a pilot study which examines the potential for measuring the levels of English proficiency of a small cohort of bilingual educated Maltese subjects. In an effort to measure L2 vocabulary depth, breadth and to …
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The Effect of Hyperarticulation on the Perception of Palatalization in Russian by L1 American English Speakers
… 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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Language universals, language typology and L2 acquisition: A cross-sectional study of adult English speakers learning Chinese
This study is an attempt to integrate the theories of language universals, language typology, and markedness with interlanguage (IL) phenomena, specifically those relating to the process of acquiring Chinese as a second language. The central question addressed is whether or not a composite theory …
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The effects of culturally-based computer software on the motivation and academic engagement of African American English speakers
… 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 and …
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(Im)politeness in email communication: how English speakers and Chinese speakers negotiate meanings and develop intercultural (mis)understandings
This thesis looks at the way in which Chinese and English speakers employ (im)politeness strategies in their emails to develop intercultural understanding. From a theoretical perspective, this thesis contributes to the discussions of intercultural communication in relation to the negotiation of …
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The Effect of Orthographic Mapping, Context, and Word Class on Sight Word Learning for Native and Nonnative English-Speakers
… learning differently in native and nonnative speakers? Additionally, this study investigated whether literacy and language skills predict the reading of words presented in isolation. Native (n = 40) and nonnative (n = 41) English-speaking kindergarten students' were randomly assigned to either …
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