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A perception study on the third tone in Mandarin Chinese
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2007)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: This experimental study examines the role of the shape of the pitch contour in the perception of the Mandarin Chinese tone 3.2 A set of stimuli was constructed by ... -
Phonetic emphasis in Tamil
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The present paper is based on a study conducted following Balasubramanian’s (1981) method: a native speaker was asked to emphasize a given item in a sentence and ... -
Predicting near-native pronunciation in Spanish as a foreign language
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The objective of the present study is to examine the acquisition of pronunciation by 66 undergraduate students enrolled in three sections of an intermediate Spanish ... -
Preliminary tone analysis of possessed nouns in Chicahuaxtla Trique
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2007)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Chicahuaxtla Trique is one of the Trique languages spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico. Among three Trique languages, Chicahuaxtla Trique has the most complicated tone system ... -
Primary stress assignment in Brazilian Portuguese
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Brazilians display a great interest in the prosody of their own language. Much classroom time is spent counting syllables, enumerating detailed rules for stress ... -
Speech Act, Evidentiality, and Implicature in the Korean Topic-Construction
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2010-11-17)Is it possible to map pragmatic or discourse-oriented features onto the syntax level? The Korean topic marker -(n)un has a contrastive reading that induces conventional implicature, and is closely associated with a modal ... -
Subjectless sentences in English
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: One of the goals of modern linguistics is to develop a model of Universal Grammar which captures natural language features that are universal, while also accounting ... -
The variable (th) in Dallas African American Vernacular English
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: It is well-known that African American Vernacular English (hereafter AAVE) displays regional variation. In the case of the (th) variable, Wolfram (1969) found that ... -
The variable elision of unstressed vowels in European Portuguese: a case study
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: European varieties of Portuguese exhibit a process whereby unstressed vowels, particularly schwa, optionally undergo elision: an item such as idade ‘idea’ can be ... -
We Shall Be Watching You, You're Going to Die, and Other Threats: A Corpus-Based Speech Act Approach
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2010-11-17)Using a speech act approach, this paper examines the similarities and differences between English-language threats made by terrorists and those made by non-terrorists, with a focus on pronoun use and sentence-type. Both ...