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Kansa, Metee. "Body part-related metaphors in Thai and English." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1259310.

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The study of body part metaphors provides a convenient way to examine human conceptual structuring because we start from what we as humans share. This study collected and compared Thai and English body part metaphors: one hundred and eighty-four English body part expressions and four hundred and eighty-eight Thai body part expressions were considered.The data are discussed in terms of the body part involved, the underlying conceptual metaphors, and syntactic and morphological form. The data show that basically, Thai and English share many conceptual metaphors, and there are a number of equival

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Shen, Li. "Third foot or fifth wheel a comparison of figurative language in Chinese and English persuasive essays written by Mandarin-speaking advanced EFL students /." access full-text online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 1996. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?9701510.

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Winberg, Christine. "The comprehension of figurative language in English literary texts by students for whom English is not a mother tongue." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002649.

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This study applies Sperber and Wilson's relevance theory to the comprehension of figurative language in poetry. Students' understanding of metaphor as a linguistic category and comprehension of metaphorical texts are analysed in terms of the principle of relevance. Patterns of comprehension in English first language (Ll) and English second language (ESL) students' analyses of metaphorical texts are discussed and through an analysis of similarities and differences in these patterns of comprehension an attempt is made to develop a pedagogy around relevance theory. Relevance theory's particular e

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Gullström, Sofia. "Pura Vida : A study on translation of proper nouns, figures of speech and terminology in an English travel guide about Costa Rica." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-26412.

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The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the difficulties that came up in the translation of an English travel guide about Costa Rica into Swedish, and what strategies may be employed in order to solve them. The focus is on how to handle proper nouns, figures of speech and terminology. In order to gather material for the study an English travel guide about Costa Rica was translated into Swedish and then some of the translation problems encountered during translation were chosen for an in-depth analysis. The analysis is mainly based on Rune Ingo’s and Peter Newmark’s theories, but other

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Hofmann, Petra. "Infernal imagery in Anglo-Saxon charters." Thesis, St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/498.

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Shutova, Ekaterina. "Computational approaches to figurative language." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609681.

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Almisned, Othman A. "Metaphor in the Qur'an : an assessment of three English translations of Suurat Al-Hajj." Thesis, Durham University, 2001. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1663/.

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Srinivasan, Nandini. "Acoustic Analysis of English Vowels by Young Spanish-English Bilingual Language Learners." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10815722.

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<p> Several studies across various languages have shown that monolingual listeners perceive significant differences between the speech of monolinguals and bilinguals. However, these differences may not always affect the phoneme category as identified by the listener or the speaker; differences may often be found between tokens corresponding to unique phonological categories and, as such, be more easily detectable through acoustic analysis. We hypothesized that unshared English vowels produced by young Spanish-English bilinguals would have measurably different formant values and duration than t

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Kropf, Corinne Ann. "Perception and analysis of Spanish accents in English speech." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2000. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1404.

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Baderoon, Gabeba. "Oblique figures : representations of Islam in South African media and culture." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7965.

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Includes bibliographical references.<br>In 1996 stories in South African newspapers about the group Pagad articulated a new vision of Islam. In this thesis I conduct a long reading of the ways in which Islam has been represented in South Africa to provide a context for analysing the Pagad stories. Drawing on Edward Said's Orientalism and later elaborations that emphasise gender, the thesis is attentive to the latent weight of fantasies of 'race' on non-fictional representations. In the introduction I look at the use of the offensive word 'kaffir' in colonial South Africa and contend that, in t

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Song, Buseon. "Emotion metaphors in Korean." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1263925.

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Cook, John A. "The structure and significance of hendiadys in the Hebrew Bible." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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Kuerten, Anna Belavina. "Assessing speech production in english as a foreign language." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2012. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/93736.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente, Florianópolis, 2010<br>Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-25T02:54:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 281154.pdf: 791073 bytes, checksum: e30d66ee3c9be48b47c2601e0ac13178 (MD5)<br>Este estudo investigou os componentes da habilidade oral que são tratados nas escalas orais de dois testes de proficiência em inglês como lingual estrangeira (TOEFL e IELTS) e duas diretrizes para orientações em ensino, aprendizagem e testagem (AC

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Wood, David. "Formulaic language in speech fluency development in English as a second language." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/29274.

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This thesis is an investigation of the role of formulaic language in second language (L2) speech fluency development, within a cognitive and information processing framework. Fluency has been studied and defined in terms of temporal variables of speech such as rate of speech, pause frequency and distribution, and the length of fluent runs between pauses. It has been suggested by several researchers that the key to fluency in spontaneous speech is mastery of a repertoire of formulaic language sequences, multiword strings processed mentally as single words (Schmidt, 1991; Towell, Hawkins, and Ba

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Wizinowich, Janice Ingrid 1951. "Figures of speech, signs of knowing: Towards a semiotic view of science conceptualization." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/288989.

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Models for science education, rather than paralleling the process of scientific discovery, have traditionally involved the dissemination of information through texts and controlled lab experiences. These have had limited effect in the development of science concepts. Therefore, the focus of this study was to investigate alternative avenues, such as the use of narrative, for science conceptualization. Despite the potential for narrative as an avenue for science conceptualization, for the most part studies involving literature have not explored this relationship. The purpose of this study was to

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Bass, April R. VanPool Todd L. "Social perceptions of speech a study of student awareness of standard American English and one rural Missouri variant /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6482.

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Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on Feb 17, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Thesis advisor: Dr. Todd VanPool. Includes bibliographical references.

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Djafarova, Elmira. "Language in tourism advertising : the contribution of figures of speech to the representation of tourism." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2008. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/1581/.

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This study explores the ways figures of speech such as metaphors, puns and alliteration contribute to the creation of tourism images in print advertising. Extensive research has been conducted within the areas of advertising, tourism and linguistics. However, little has been done to emphasise the importance of textual analysis. The majority of the research used the more common visual semiotics approach in tourism. This study provides a detailed analysis of the figures of speech in tourism advertising. The choice of the above figures of speech was dictated by the previous research indicating th

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Freedman, Skott Elliot. "A beautiful day in the neighborhood the influence of neighborhood density on speech production /." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego ; [San Diego] : San Diego State University, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3386582.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University, 2009.<br>Title from first page of PDF file (viewed January 12, 2010). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-169).

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Morales, Lorenzo. "Validation and optimization of the speech transmission index for the English language." Thesis, London South Bank University, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.646863.

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Snow, David P. "Phrase-final syllable lengthening and intonation in early child speech /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8192.

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Dalby, Jonathan Marler. "Phonetic structure of fast speech in American English." Bloomington : Reproduced by the Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1986. http://books.google.com/books?id=6MpWAAAAMAAJ.

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José, Brian. "Speech acts as a focus of variation studies AAE vs. EAE /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2000. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1570.

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Wu, Mian, and 吴冕. "Speech perception of English as a foreign language by Mandarin Chinese speakers." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/206725.

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Whittaker, Edward William Daniel. "Statistical language modelling for automatic speech recognition of Russian and English." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621936.

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Jooste, Nikki. "Learning through a second language : a comparative study of the performance in reading comprehension and the cognitive-linguistic processes involved in reading comprehension between first-language English learners and second-language English, first-l." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/2921.

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Cummings, Victor. "Speech and writing : an analysis of expository texts composed by native and non-native speakers of English at the City University of New York /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1990. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/10938783.

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Felker, Helen Margaret. "Effects of Language Dominance in Spanish-English Bilingual Speakers." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/523710.

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Communication Sciences<br>M.A.<br>Despite the rise of globalization and increasing multilingualism, the effect of language dominance on thought and perception in bilingual speakers has received little attention. This study examines the semantic networks of Spanish-English bilingual adults and monolingual English-speaking peers to determine whether language dominance structures the semantic space of a bilingual speaker to more closely match the semantic space of a monolingual speaker of the dominant language. It is predicted that semantic ratings produced by English-dominant bilinguals will cor

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Osle, Ezquerra Ángel. "The speech intelligibility of English learners of Spanish at Key Stage 4." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2013. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/8602.

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This study offers an assessment of the non-native speech intelligibility of a group of English learners of Spanish at word level and in connected speech. Specifically, we aimed at analysing the impact of certain categories of phonemic errors, as well as three temporal variables of L2 speech (speech rate, pause frequency and pause duration) on intelligibility scores. In addition, the possible correlation between degree of intelligibility and certain individual factors (gender, level of proficiency, motivation, aptitude and L1) was also studied. Sixty evaluators, native speakers of Peninsular Sp

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Wang, Costello Jingjing. "Comprehending synthetic speech personal and production influences." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5077.

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With the increasing prevalence of voice-production technology across societies, clear comprehension while listening to synthetic speech is an obvious goal. Common human factors influences include the listener's language familiarity and age. Production factors include the speaking rate and clarity. This study investigated the speaking comprehension performance of younger and older adults who learned English as their first or second language. Presentations varied by the rate of delivery in words per minute (wpm) and in two forms, synthetic or natural speech. The results showed that younger adult

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Schrock, Lana Renee. "Phonological Processes in Sentences Produced by Adult Japanese English Language Learners." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1366823748.

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Rivera, Perez Jean F. "The Use of Text-to-Speech to Teach Vocabulary to English Language Learners." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1470753301.

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Chiam, Ruth. "Speech Motor Control in English-Mandarin Bilinguals who stutter." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Department of Communication Disorders, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7793.

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Research examining bilinguals who stutter (BWS) is limited; in particular there are few studies that have considered examining features of speech motor control in BWS. The present study was designed to examine features of speech motor control in bilingual speakers of Mandarin and English. Speech motor control was examined through the acoustic analysis of speaking rate, voice onset time (VOT) and stuttering adaptation. Participants ranged from age between 9 and 27 years. Upon completion of a language dominance questionnaire, two BWS participants were found to be English dominant and three were

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Leavell, Deborah Kay. "The avoidance of absolute commitment in speech acts: Modality." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2309.

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After defining speaker commitment as it pertains to propositional truth in speech acts and exploring influences and motivations that may effect speaker commitment, this thesis will introduce and define modality in the context of actual speech.

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Tsui, Haley May-Lai. "Ultrasound speech training for Japanese adults learning English as a second language." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43348.

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Japanese adults learning English as a second language often have difficulty perceiving and producing English /l/ and /ɹ/ due to specific acoustic and articulatory characteristics of these speech sounds and their absence in Japanese phonology. The current study investigated the effectiveness of using two-dimensional tongue ultrasound to teach pronunciation of these sounds to six adult native Japanese speakers. Each participant had four 45-minute training sessions over a two-week period where visual feedback from ultrasound was used to support the teaching of lingual configurations for /l/ and /

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Coley, David Kennedy. "The wheel of language representing speech in Middle English narrative, 1377-1422 /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8104.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.<br>Thesis research directed by: Dept. of English. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Hammonds, Phillip Edward. "Directive speech acts in conflict situations among advanced non-native speakers of English." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/252893.

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This study investigates tasks in which international graduate students who are non-native speakers of English must use a second or foreign language (L2) in simulated conflict and stressful situations with native speakers. In particular, the study examines conflicts where the non-native speaker (NNS) must issue a directive to a native speaker (NS) in order to achieve an important outcome or avoid unwanted or even dangerous consequences. Unlike previous studies which place equal or no emphasis on the consequences of the directive under investigation, this study focuses on the perlocutionary effe

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Yu, Kyong-Ae. "A Linguistic study of culture-specific speech acts : politeness in English and Korean." St. Lucia, Qld, 2001. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16327.pdf.

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Elangovan, Saravanan, and Andrew Stuart. "Categorical Perception and Auditory Temporal Processing in Bilingual English-Spanish Speakers." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1561.

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Karam, Kerry. "Knappin : standard versus dialect speech modification in Shetland." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2017. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=231903.

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Despite some excellent historical and contemporary research on the linguistic situation in the Shetland Islands, to date there have been no studies with an in-depth focus on a specific type of dialect-to-standard speech modification, known locally in Shetland as knappin. Specifically: as the speakers understand it, what is the precise definition of knappin and how might this feature be linked to dialect attrition? The concept of knappin is a widely debated and contentious issue within Shetland. Questions such as how, when and why does it occur, who does it, and whether its use is the final ste

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Muthiah, Kalaivahni Chelliah Shobhana Lakshmi. "Fictionalized Indian English speech and the representations of ideology in Indian novels in English." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12168.

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Phillips, Lowana. "A study of the impact of foreign language anxiety on tertiary students' oral performance." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31649579.

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Rossouw, Katherine. "Intervention for bilingual children with speech sound disorders: A description of three English/isiXhosa speaking children." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22934.

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IsiXhosa is a language that is widely spoken in South Africa. Bilingualism is common in South Africa, with many children learning isiXhosa as a home language and English from a young age. This study investigated three case studies of bilingual children with speech sound disorders. It aimed to describe changes in their speech following intervention according to a tailor made intervention plan. The project aimed to add to the limited research available on intervention for bilingual children with speech sound disorders. The speech of Gcobisa* (4;2), Lulama* (4;0) and Ntando* (3;0) were assessed a

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Holmes, Frederika Kathinka. "A study of dominance in speech perception and production by German-English bilinguals." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309135.

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Lazewnik, Rochel. "Identifiers of Bilingual Spanish-English Speaking Children with Language Impairment." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1378114034.

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McKenzie, Robert M. "A quantitative study of the attitudes of Japanese learners towards varieties of English speech : aspects of the sociolinguistics of English in Japan." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1519.

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Language attitude studies focussing specifically on native speaker perceptions of varieties of English speech have demonstrated consistently that standard varieties tend to be evaluated positively in terms of competence/ status whilst non-standard varieties are generally rated higher in terms of social attractiveness/ solidarity. However, the great majority of studies which have investigated non-native attitudes have tended to measure evaluations of ‘the English language’, conceptualised as a single entity, thus ignoring the substantial regional and social variation within the language. This i

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Bitetti, Dana Lynn. "Language Dominance and the Language, Literacy, and Early Math of Spanish-English Bilingual Preschoolers." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/393035.

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Communication Sciences<br>Ph.D.<br>There is a growing need for more information regarding the early academic development of preschool-age children who are learning to speak Spanish and English. To achieve this, studies are needed that acknowledge the heterogeneity of language abilities within bilingual preschool children, and that these variations in language abilities may impact children’s early academic skills. This two-study dissertation investigated how four foundational skills: narrative production, phonological awareness, letter-word identification, and early math, differed depending on

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Pascoe, Michelle. "Segmental phonology and Black South African English speakers : communicative success with standard dialect listeners." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26323.

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The study investigated the nature of the listener 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. Written data of StdSAE subjects were analysed to determine patterns of success and failure in the communication of single word items by BSAE subjects. Specific difficulties with vowels, dipthongs and consonants are discussed in terms of their effect on int

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Huang, Yu-Chun. "The Influence of Speech Shadowing on English Word-initial Consonants Produced by Speakers of English as a Foreign Language." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10785321.

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<p> The purpose of this research is to determine whether speech shadowing influences the values of voice onset time (VOT) of word-initial consonants, /b/, /p/, /t/, /d/, and /k/ in reading and speaking conditions after a four-week training period. Twenty participants separated into two groups from a learning center in Taipei, Taiwan were recruited for this experiment. Mann-Whitney U tests were conducted to compare the values of VOT of five word-initial consonants in reading and speaking conditions, and narrative analyses were conducted to distinguish the differences among reading, speaking, an

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Kennedy, Sara 1973. "Second language learner speech and intelligibility : instruction and environment in a university setting." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=115651.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate changes in the pronunciation and intelligibility of instructed and uninstructed second language (L2) learners over time, and to identify instructional, environmental, and methodological factors playing a role in pronunciation and intelligibility.<br>Seventeen L2 graduate students at an English-medium university recorded three personal anecdotes over five months. The students also regularly logged their exposure to and use of English. Nine of the students (instructed group) were concurrently taking an oral communication course focussing on suprasegme

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Van, der Merwe Kristin Catherine. "The comprehension of figurative language by Afrikaans-speaking children with and without specific language impairment and by child second language speakers of Afrikaans." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/21912.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2008.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Children experiencing language disorders have often been noted to have difficulty in comprehending figurative language, to a greater or lesser degree. The present study examined and compared the comprehension of figurative language, namely idioms and similes, in three groups of boys between the ages of 8 and 10. These three groups included (i) typically developing Afrikaans first language speakers, (ii) typically developing Afrikaans second language speakers (L2) and (iii) Afrikaans first language speakers with specific language

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