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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"fluent speakers"”.
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The Perceptions of Psychotherapists-in-Training regarding People who Stutter versus Normally Fluent Speakers
… of stutterers as compared to normally fluent speakers. Two groups viewed a videotaped vignette of a male. In one, the male interviewee displayed stuttering behaviors. In the other, the same male spoke fluently. Participants then rated the male interviewee on several personality …
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The Relationship between Speech Disfluencies Produced under Delayed Auditory Feedback and Auditory Processing Skills in Fluent Speakers.
… (DAF) is known to produce speech disruptions in fluent speakers. The present study examined the relationship between individuals' susceptibility to DAF and their auditory processing skills. Forty participants (20 males and 20 females) read and produced monologue at no delay and 3 different delay …
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Auditory-motor integration influences on speech motor control and fluency: a comparison of normally fluent speakers and people who stutter
… motor stability and speech fluency in normally fluent adults (PWNS) and to compare them with effects on adults who exhibit persistent stuttering. If the auditory processing influences differently the two groups, it might shed light on the basic role of auditory-to-motor integration in speech …
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Teaching Culture through Social Situations in English as a Second Language Classes
… language learners can never succeed in being fluent speakers in the target language without developing both competences. The handbook includes series of lessons to promote a deeper appreciation of how culture and language interact.</p>
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Capturing the Significance of African American English (AAE): An Insider Perspective
… 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). Participants shared personal …
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Subvocalization and Stuttering
… subjects, thirteen stutterers and thirteen fluent speakers, were matched by age, sex and educational background. None had any history of neurosurgery, neuropathology or debilitating injury to the head or neck.</p> <p>Two GRASS silver chloride electrodes were attached to the chin and inferior …
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACOUSTIC FEATURES OF SECOND LANGUAGE SPEECH AND LISTENER EVALUATION OF SPEECH QUALITY
Second language (L2) speech is typically less fluent than native speech, and differs from it phonetically. While the speech of some L2 English speakers seems to be easily understood by native listeners despite the presence of a foreign accent, other L2 speech seems to be more demanding, such that …
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TOPICS IN HAKHA LAI NOMINAL MARKING
… data collected in collaboration with three fluent speakers of Hakha Lai. Elicitation materials, carefully designed to control discourse context information, were adapted from three questionnaires which tested the role of nominal markers in encoding: 1) the spatial deictic properties of …
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The Use of Materials for the Teaching of Culture in ELT
… research. Teachers, both native and non-native speakers of English, participated in this research and have EFL teaching experience from 2 years to 30 years. An open-ended questionnaire (85) followed by semi-structured interviews (28) were conducted to learn more of teachers’ experiences and to …
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Local norms and innovations within the system of locative prepositions in Cajun French
… French norm or triggered by attrition although fluent speakers of Cajun French have always used them. In this sociolinguistic study, we analyze the use of locative prepositions. We add two important dimensions to existing studies: real-time evidence for a diachronic descriptive perspective, and …
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Phonetic variation, sound change, and identity in Scottish Gaelic
… sation. In particular, I concentrate on young fluent speakers of Scottish Gaelic, a minority language of Scotland that is currently undergoing revitalisation. Data from three groups of speakers are presented: older speakers in the Isle of Lewis, a Gaelic heartland area in north-west Scotland; …
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A documentation and description of Yelmek
… language family, which has less than a thousand fluent speakers by my estimation. The present work is the first in-depth description of any variety of this language family. It is based on a total of 12-month original fieldwork. In some ways, Yelmek is typical for a language of Southern …
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A documentation and description of Yelmek
… language family, which has less than a thousand fluent speakers by my estimation. The present work is the first in-depth description of any variety of this language family. It is based on a total of 12-month original fieldwork. In some ways, Yelmek is typical for a language of Southern …
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A history of the Bhojpuri (or "Hindi") language in South Africa
… informal interviews with over two hundred fluent speakers, including four who had been born in India during the time of immigrations. The study also draws upon the author's observations on language practices as an 'inside' member of the community under study.
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Afrikaans-English in the Western Cape : a descriptive socio-linguistic investigation
… English used by first-language (White) Afrikaans-speakers in the Western Cape. The first chapter outlines the aims of the thesis with respect to the study of English as a world phenomenon. Important work on other varieties of English, notably that of William Labov and that of Lesley Milroy, is …