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An Acoustic Phonetic Analysis Of The Intelligibility Of Nepali-Accented English Vowels, Ettien Koffi
An Acoustic Phonetic Analysis Of The Intelligibility Of Nepali-Accented English Vowels, Ettien Koffi
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This research is carried out to gauge the intelligibility of vowels produced by 19 Nepali international students (10 male and 9 female) enrolled at St. Cloud State University (SCSU) in fall 2017. At the time of the study, the average length of residency of students was 2.4 years. The students’ data were collected for two interrelated projects. One focused on the social network of Nepali students at SCSU (see companion paper in this volume) and this one investigates the intelligibility of their vowels. Vowels are singled out because they play a greater role in intelligibility than consonants (Prator and Robinett …
A Social Network Analysis Of Nepali Students At A Us University, Ettien Koffi
A Social Network Analysis Of Nepali Students At A Us University, Ettien Koffi
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Individuals in a community interact with others in small and large social groupings. Such interactions provide a wealth of information that can be exploited in multiple ways. In this paper, we investigate the social networks of Nepali students at St. Cloud State University, a comprehensive university in central Minnesota, USA. The participants are 10 males and 9 females. Their responses to survey/interview questions serve as the basis for this research. The aggregated data show that Nepali students have 76 “best friends” in their social networks, and that 45 of those are Nepali, 31 are international students from 12 different countries, …
An Acoustic Phonetic Account Of Vot In Russian-Accented English, Mikhail Zaikovskii, Ettien Koffi
An Acoustic Phonetic Account Of Vot In Russian-Accented English, Mikhail Zaikovskii, Ettien Koffi
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Russian is known as a true voice language with pre-voicing of voiced stops and no aspiration. It has been noted in many linguistic studies that the native language plays an important role in second language acquisition. There is a study which shows that people continue using their L1 processing strategies of linguistic information to communicate in their second language (Culter and Norris, 1988; Koda, 1997). In this research, we are interested in seeing whether or not Russian speakers prevoice voiced stops when speaking English.
An Acoustic Phonetic Account Of The Confusion Between [L] And [N] By Some Chinese Speakers, Ettien Koffi
An Acoustic Phonetic Account Of The Confusion Between [L] And [N] By Some Chinese Speakers, Ettien Koffi
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Richards (2012) and Zhang (n.d.) report that some Chinese L2 speakers of English confuse /l/ and /n/. Koffi (2019:249-50) indicates that some acoustic correlates of /l/ and /n/ produced by Mandarin 6F, 8M, 9M, and 17M mask each other. Preliminary evidence suggests that this pronunciation is confined to speakers from Hubei, Sichuan, and Shangai. The goal of this investigation is to undertake a comprehensive study involving 27 Chinese speakers and their pronunciations of [l]s in the nouns and and of the [n] in the verb . The first part of the investigation is a confusion study. The second deals with …
A Longitudinal Acoustic Phonetic Study Of English Vowels By A Panamanian Speaker, Ettien Koffi, Fernando G. Lesniak
A Longitudinal Acoustic Phonetic Study Of English Vowels By A Panamanian Speaker, Ettien Koffi, Fernando G. Lesniak
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Longitudinal acquisitions of English vowels have been previously studied by Monroe (2008), Lai (2010), and others. Most of these studies rely primarily on an impressionistic methodology, i.e., native speaking judges listen to oral inputs by non-native speakers and rate the intelligibility of their vowels on a Likert scale. This is not so for this study. The assessment relies primarily on the speech signals emitted by Author 2 when reading vowels in citation form and in running speech. The F1 and F2 correlates of his vowels are measured at three different intervals: in 2011, in 2017, and in 2018. The measured …
Teaching Chinese Students To Ask Wh-Questions, Xue Jiang, Ettien Koffi, Chad Kuehn
Teaching Chinese Students To Ask Wh-Questions, Xue Jiang, Ettien Koffi, Chad Kuehn
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The challenges of a second language are many: one of those challenges for Chinese students of English is asking WH questions. This paper will attempt to illuminate what makes WH-questions in English challenging for the Mandarin L1 speakers, and why. Negative transfer from Mandarin structure and its effect on word order are especially analyzed. The implications for ESL/EFL learners and possible teacher interventions will also be explored, including the sequence in which Wh-Question words are to be introduced to learners.
An Acoustic Phonetic Analysis Of Northern Minnesota English Vowel Spaces, Michel Backstrom
An Acoustic Phonetic Analysis Of Northern Minnesota English Vowel Spaces, Michel Backstrom
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The dialect of Northern Minnesota English (NMNE) has been acknowledged as a leading suspect in the search for the Minnesota accent. Bartholdi (2015) produced a video, asking Minnesotans: “Are You MN Enough”? The majority of those who responded associated the Minnesota accent in the video with Northern Minnesota. This study seeks to reveal just what that particular dialect of Northern Minnesota actually looks like acoustically. Twenty speakers from the queried region were recorded saying the following eleven vowel phonemes three times [i, ɪ, e, ɛ, æ, ɑ, ɔ, o, ʊ, u, ʌ] within an isolated hVd structure. The recordings were …
A Comprehensive Review Of F0 And Its Various Correlations, Ettien Koffi
A Comprehensive Review Of F0 And Its Various Correlations, Ettien Koffi
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This paper examines many acoustic characteristics of F0 and their relevance in linguistic analysis. It also highlights correlations between F0 measurements and vowel height, gender, accentedness, and phonation types. The latter is the center piece of the paper. This correlation is needed for a more reliable account of pitch contrasts in accent and tone languages. Two approaches are used in establishing this correlation. The first relies on a subharmonic equation and the second makes use of Critical band calculations. Both yield the same results. The data used to highlight these various correlations come from Peterson and Barney (1952), Hillenbrand et …
Editor's Prologue To Volume 8, Ettien Koffi
Editor's Prologue To Volume 8, Ettien Koffi
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