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... are potentially useful in the understanding of spoken English, pitch and pause information have received the most attention due to ease of measurement and their relative importance (Cruttenden ... ical and structural ambiguities in spoken English. In this paper we present some results of employ- ing two types of prosodic information, namely pitch and pause, to assist syntactic and semantic ... recognition and natural language understanding to produce a system capable of understanding spoken dia- logues, we are confronted with a range of prob- lems not found in text processing. Spoken...

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... 105 First Conditional 106 End of Course Oral Examination 106 End of Course Oral Examination 110 Talk a Lot Course Certificate – Template 1 111 Talk a Lot Course Certificate – Template 2 ... examinations and an end of course review. We recommend that you hold one lesson per week, making this a twelve week course comprising 30 guided learning hours, plus 6 hours of guided revision and examination. ... writing and grammar-based activities that could complement the intensive speaking and listening work of the Talk a Lot lessons. You could follow a standard EFL or ESL course book such as New English...

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... this Course For more fun worksheets, games and quizzes log onto www.englishbanana.com now! Talk a Lot Elementary Book 2 â English Banana.com 1 Course Outline: ã Before the course ... examinations and an end of course review. We recommend that you hold one lesson per week, making this a twelve week course comprising 30 guided learning hours, plus 6 hours of guided revision and examination. ... writing and grammar-based activities that could complement the intensive speaking and listening work of the Talk a Lot lessons. You could follow a standard EFL or ESL course book such as New English...

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... International copyright for English Banana.com materials belongs to Matt Purland /English Banana.com 2002-2010. Why Free Licences? Matt Purland, sole author of all English Banana.com materials, ... Purland: Matt Purland, Founder and Writer, English Banana.com, Date: 7 th December 2008 Talk a Lot Learning English For more fun worksheets, games and quizzes log onto www.englishbanana.com ... (Past Continuous) Kenneth and Maria were writing the vowels and consonants of the English alphabet in their notebooks. / Who was writing the vowels and consonants of the English alphabet in their...

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... word and meaning . _ Introducing lexical and semantic field of word. _ Analyzing the culture and linguist of the word “meal” in English and in Vietnamese equivalents. _ Comparing the cultural and ... course, the national drink of Scotland, and “Scotch” is exported to the rest of the world. 3.2.3. Other drinks As well as large amounts of hot drinks such as tea, coffee and coca-cola, British people ... concepts and the whole knowledge of the world. His idea about the influence of language upon thought, and the existence of an “intermediate universe” of concepts interposed between man and the...

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... Most of the foods we buy today are chemically processed. This includes fruits, vegetables, and everything else. Food processing takes a huge chunk of this energy away, and often adds a ton of ... in your energy and health. These drinks are made from UN-PROCESSED foods and they SUPER alkalize and energize your body. How to Free Yourself of ANY Disease, Stop Fatigue, And Create Unstoppable ... energy, vitality and absolute health in us? There are of course a thousand answers to this age-old question, but what I want to introduce you here to is the concept of acidity and alkalinity...

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... word-initial and word-final clusters 33 Sotillo, C. F. 3–4, 94 sound, and meaning, united in the mental lexicon 91–3 type of, and place of occurrence 12 sound changes, directionality of 115 prediction of ... 29 as a topic-comment language 16 varieties of 19–20 vowel reduction 76 West Midlands 87 see also American English; Australian English; Cockney; New Zealand English environment, phonetic/ phonological ... 58 New Zealand English 20, 35, 38 Wellington Corpus of Spoken 85 154 Index Stampe, D. 8, 48, 52–3, 54–6, 61, 69, 115 standard, percolation up in language families 117 reduced forms become 2 and variation...

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... perception of conversa- tional speech in English courses for those planning to live in English- speaking countries and may even be an argument for explicit teaching of types of phonological reduction and ... contexts. Language and Speech, 31, 307–19. Fowler, C. A. and Housum, J. (1987) Talkers’ signalling of ‘new’ and ‘old’ words in speech. Journal of Memory and Language, 26, 489–504. Fox, R. and Terbeek, ... conversation. Language and Speech, 41, 3–4. Holmes, J. (1994) New Zealand Flappers: An Analysis of T-Voicing in New Zealand English. English World-Wide, 15, 195–224. Holst, T. and Nolan, F. (1995a)...

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... standard in English and other pronunciations are regarded as nonstandard. On the other hand, what is spelled ‘d’ and was once presumably pronounced as [d] is now [ẻ] intervocalically in stand- ard ... who, after 6 years of Eng- lish at a grammar school and after a whole year of studying English at a Dutch university, goes to England for the first time in his life . . . steps off the train, goes ... to teach English as spoken by native English speakers. Though many foreign visitors speak English reasonably comprehensibly, they cannot understand it. She cites an article in a 1971 English newspaper...

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... percept of stress may be achieved by a little bit of each of these, a moderate amount of any two of these, or a lot of one. Massaro’s model allows for tradeoffs of this sort as well as tradeoffs ... both speech production and perception. It postulates that speech is composed of gestures and complexes of gestures. The limits of these are set by the nature of the vocal tract and the human perceptual ... family of models) of speech perception (Marslen-Wilson and Welsh, 1978; Cole and Jakimik, 1978; Cutler and Norris, 1988, Norris, 1994) assumes that the word is the basic unit of perception and that...

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... sides of a screen. The lack of visual cues and the fact that the maps which the two parties are looking at are somewhat different causes much repetition of the landmark names under a variety of ... suggests that a → b, we often find, phonetically, cases of a, b, and a rainbow of intermediate stages, some of which cannot be detected by ear. They suggest that accents of the same language can ... importance of non-binary output to phonological theory (Nolan, 1992, Holst and Nolan, 1995a, 1995b) and on modelling assimilation (Nolan and Holst, 1996) have also come out of this work. The majority of...

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... contribute to an understanding of casual speech is not easy: much of what has been done on speech anatomy and physiology has contributed to our understanding of the physical and neurological constraints ... adults: listeners learn to match the degree of optionality of their language environment. This approach is, of course, subject to the same criti- cisms made of Labov and the Variationists with respect ... of the onset and coda and the insertion of [ei]) are played in a wide range of languages, many of which do not have alphabetic writing systems. Players include young chil- dren and illiterates,...

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... icon. A pair of words which might be thought of as genuine weak forms in SSB. are ‘Sir’ and ‘Saint’, which are, unpredictably, [sv] and 44 Processes in Conversational English *<yfl SSB. And they’re’ Ñ:?is ... between the language behaviour of a community and the mental grammar of an individual is unknown and probably unknowable. How could an individual keep track of the percentages of rule application in their ... are eight consonant clusters, six of two con- sonants and two of three consonants. In the latter, we see three consonant clusters, two of two consonants and one of three. The movement towards a...

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... [v/0] alternation in the word of and (2) the loss of tongue contact for /l/ syllable-finally. The former of these is well-known and well-documented, and in fact, of is frequently cited as a ... of jobs’ [l∞tsvcu∞bz]. The ‘weak and strong forms’ of of are much more like the ‘a/an’ forms of the indefinite article in English, the main difference being that it is not actually unheard of ... (1984) stresses the importance of this distinction in English casual speech processes. In English, the type of cluster allowed is, of course, different initially and finally: barring clusters beginning...

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