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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Japanese speakers"”.
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Speech Aerodynamics of American English and Japanese Speakers
… 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 production task. …
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Nominal phrases in English and Japanese speakers' L2 Mandarin grammars
… (L2) acquisition of Mandarin nominal phrases by Japanese and English learners. Four nominal prope1iies shared by Mandarin and Japanese are the classifier projection (ClP), the incompatibility of . \ . the numeral-classifier phrase with the plural marker, adjectival possessives and the …
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Irony in a second language: exploring the comprehension of Japanese speakers of English
… thesis focuses on the extent to which non-native speakers of English understand potentially ironic utterances in a similar way to native speakers. Barbe (1995: 4) sees irony as one of ‘the final obstacles before achieving near native-speaker fluency.’ This assumption is supported by the findings …
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Teaching connected speech rules to Japanese speakers of English so as to avoid a staccato speech rhythm
This study explores the effectiveness of teaching Japanese speakers of English how to connect speech so as to avoid a robotic speech rhythm. A control and an experimental group were each given three one-hour classes in English. The control group read poetry aloud without any explicit instructions. …
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A sociolinguistic study of the effects of ethnocentrism and cultural traits on proficiency of Japanese speakers of English
… Japan has been acknowledged by both foreign and Japanese linguists and ESL teachers for nearly a century. Attitudinal and affective factors such as ethnocentrism, Japanese cultural traits, and values and beliefs expressed through modern myths were conjectured by several linguists and researchers …
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Speaking Japanese: L1 and L2 grammatical encoding of case particles and adjectives/adjectival nouns
… encoding processes that occur during L1 Japanese sentence production were investigated; second, L2 Japanese learners' sentence production processes were examined. Because any L2 data that we can observe is necessarily the product of both speakers' underlying knowledge and their capacity …
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L1 Transfer in the L2 Acquisition and Processing of the English Genitive Alternation: Combining Learner Corpus and Psycholinguistic Methodologies
… comprehension and processing among L1 Japanese and Spanish speakers in this domain, combining learner corpus data with experimental data to address L1 transfer from multiple perspectives and to provide insight into the role of metalanguage in L2 learning. The learner corpus analyses …
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Exploring Japanese learners' perception, production, and beliefs concerning spoken English contractions
… examined the beliefs and performance of 10 adult Japanese speakers of English regarding the phenomenon of contraction in spoken English. Over the course of three months, a collective case study approach involving listening tasks and semi-structured interviews was employed to investigate the topic …
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Deconstructing narrative identity in English language teaching: an analysis of teacher interviews in Japanese and English
… language teachers. It offers an analysis of how speakers used linguistic resources to construct identities for themselves during life story interviews. Both interviewer (the author) and interviewees (21 native English speakers and 21 native Japanese speakers) taught English in Japan. All …
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Pitch Contour of Japanese Traditional Verse
… to investigate how pitch pattern is realized in Japanese Traditional Verses. My observation consists of four parts: (i) investigation of lexical pitch and accentual combinations of Contemporary haiku in prose and in verse (ii) investigation of lexical pitch and accentual combinations of Basho’s …
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Pitch Contour of Japanese Traditional Verse
… to investigate how pitch pattern is realized in Japanese Traditional Verses. My observation consists of four parts: (i) investigation of lexical pitch and accentual combinations of Contemporary haiku in prose and in verse (ii) investigation of lexical pitch and accentual combinations of Basho’s …
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Performance Intensity Functions for Digitally Recorded Japanese Speech Audiometry Materials
… recorded speech audiometry materials in the Japanese language to evaluate Speech Reception Threshold (SRT) and speech discrimination. Trisyllabic words were used to evaluate the SRT and bisyllabic words were used for speech discrimination. Words were recorded by one native female talker and …
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Causativity in Chinese and its representations in English, Japanese and Korean speakers' L2 Chinese grammars.
… Chinese verbs and constructions in English-, Japanese- and Korean-speaking learners' L2 Chinese grammars. The aim of the research is to find out whether Ll transfer persists in L2 Chinese and whether L2 learners can acquire the functional AspP involved in Chinese resultative and compound …
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Interactive Effects of Perception and Production Training on L2 Phonetic Acquisition
… of the English /l/-/r/ contrast with L1 Japanese speakers and examines the relationship between PSTM and L2 phonetic learning. Based on the findings, the relationship between perception and production is explored and the effective methods for phonetic acquisition are discussed. …
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Interactive Effects of Perception and Production Training on L2 Phonetic Acquisition
… of the English /l/-/r/ contrast with L1 Japanese speakers and examines the relationship between PSTM and L2 phonetic learning. Based on the findings, the relationship between perception and production is explored and the effective methods for phonetic acquisition are discussed. …
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The Pragmatic Strategy of Main-Clause Omission in Japanese: Its Contrast with Hebrew, and Its Learnability
… study on main-clause omission constraints in Japanese after the concessive particle <em>ga</em> (‘although’/’but’), the first known controlled experiment of its kind in the literature. It investigates, from a pragmatic and discourse-analytic perspective, intuitive judgments regarding the …
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Politeness and paradigms of family: A perspective on the development of communicative competence in the Japanese ESL speaker
… politeness in English with specific reference to Japanese ESL speakers. It develops a theoretical framework that sees shared assumptions concerning the marking of social-power and social-distance differentials as crucial. Developing the notion that linguistic politeness is a function of a …
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