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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"attention to speech"”.
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Variability in interlanguage phonology of Malaysian learners of English
… investigates patterns of style shifting in the speech performance of the Malaysian learners of English as they vary according to various stylistic environments i.e. verbal tasks viz, minimal pairs reading, word list reading, dialogue reading and free conversation representing different contexts …
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Interlanguage variability in verb tense/aspect
… How and why this ocurrs is what this thesis aims to discover. A preliminary study explores the viability of using the Labovian variable model to elicit and explain variability. Difficulties highlight problems which help refine the methodology used in the main study. A review of past research point …
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ON SOCIOLINGUISTIC VARIABLES IN CURATED SPEECH: A STUDY OF STYLISTIC VARIATION OF LIAISON, SCHWA AND NE AMONG CONTEMPORARY FRENCH POLITICIANS
… dissertation examines stylistic variation in the speech of French politicians. Using a variationist approach inspired by the Phonologie du Français Contemporain project (PFC), I provide a quantitative analysis of the linguistic and extralinguistic factors influencing the production of three …
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Neural Encoding of Continuous Attended Speech in Monolingual and Bilingual Listeners
… prospects, bilingualism has also been linked to changes to selective attention and inhibition of unwanted information. Although behavioural differences between monolinguals and bilinguals on tasks of selective attention remain controversial, the experience of learning and using a second …
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Speech Rate, Pause, and Linguistic Variation: an Examination through the Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project
<p>Recordings of speech play a central role in the diverse subdisciplines of linguistics. The reliance on speech recordings is especially profound in sociolinguistics, where scholars have developed a range of techniques for eliciting and analyzing natural talk. Despite the focus on naturalistic …