... 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...
... 105 First Conditional 106 End ofCourse Oral Examination 106 End ofCourse 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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... word and meaning ._ Introducing lexical and semantic field of word._ Analyzing the culture and linguist of the word “meal” in Englishand 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 drinksAs 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 theinfluence of language upon thought, and the existence of an “intermediateuniverse” of concepts interposed between man and the...
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... word-initial and word-finalclusters 33Sotillo, C. F. 3–4, 94sound, and meaning, united in themental lexicon 91–3type of, and place of occurrence12sound changes,directionality of 115prediction of ... 29as a topic-comment language16varieties of 19–20vowel reduction 76West Midlands 87see also American English; Australian English; Cockney;New Zealand English environment, phonetic/phonological ... 58New Zealand English 20, 35, 38Wellington Corpus of Spoken 85 154 IndexStampe, D. 8, 48, 52–3, 54–6,61, 69, 115standard,percolation up in languagefamilies 117reduced forms become 2 and variation...
... 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 inNew Zealand English. English World-Wide, 15, 195–224.Holst, T. and Nolan, F. (1995a)...
... standard in Englishand other pronunciations are regarded asnonstandard. On the other hand, what is spelled ‘d’ and was oncepresumably 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 hislife . . . 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 anarticle in a 1971 English newspaper...
... percept of stress may be achieved by alittle 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 sortas well as tradeoffs ... bothspeech production and perception. It postulates that speech iscomposed of gestures and complexes of gestures. The limits of these are set by the nature of the vocal tract and the humanperceptual ... family of models) of speech perception (Marslen-Wilson and Welsh, 1978; Cole and Jakimik, 1978; Cutler and Norris, 1988, Norris, 1994) assumesthat the word is the basic unit of perception and that...
... sides of a screen. The lack of visual cues and the fact that the maps which the two parties arelooking at are somewhat different causes much repetition of thelandmark names under a variety of ... suggests thata → b, we often find, phonetically, cases of a, b, and a rainbow of intermediate stages, some of which cannot be detected by ear. Theysuggest that accents of the same language can ... importance of non-binary output to phonologicaltheory (Nolan, 1992, Holst and Nolan, 1995a, 1995b) and onmodelling assimilation (Nolan and Holst, 1996) have also comeout of this work.The majority of...
... contribute to an understanding of casual speech is not easy: much of what has been done on speechanatomy and physiology has contributed to our understanding of thephysical and neurological constraints ... adults:listeners learn to match the degree of optionality of their languageenvironment. 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 donot have alphabetic writing systems. Players include young chil-dren and illiterates,...
... icon.A pair of words which might be thought of as genuine weakforms in SSB. are ‘Sir’ and ‘Saint’, which are, unpredictably, [sv] and 44 Processes in Conversational English *<yfl SSB. And they’re’Ñ:?is ... betweenthe language behaviour of a community and the mental grammar of an individual is unknown and probably unknowable. How couldan individual keep track of the percentages of rule application intheir ... are eight consonant clusters, six of two con-sonants and two of three consonants. In the latter, we see threeconsonant clusters, two of two consonants and one of three.The movement towards a...
... [v/0] alternation in the word ofand (2) the loss of tongue contact for /l/ syllable-finally. Theformer 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’ ofof are much more like the‘a/an’ forms of the indefinite article in English, the main differencebeing that it is not actually unheard of ... (1984)stresses the importance of this distinction in English casual speechprocesses.In English, the type of cluster allowed is, of course, differentinitially and finally: barring clusters beginning...