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Adding Production To High Variability Phonetic Training, Caleb Crosby
Adding Production To High Variability Phonetic Training, Caleb Crosby
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The effectiveness of adding a production component to a High Variability Phonetic Training (HVPT) regimen to improve native Japanese speaker’s pronunciation of English [b], [v], [f], and [h] was investigated. L1 Japanese-speaking English learners were recruited as participants, and a pretest-posttest procedure was used to evaluate improvement at production of the target consonants. For the pretest and posttest, recordings were taken of participants pronouncing twelve tokens, and the recordings were rated for intelligibility by a phonetically trained native English-speaking rater. Participants were divided into two groups. Group A received only HVPT training, and group B received a regimen of half …
Penobscot Transformer Tales, Frank G. Speck
Penobscot Transformer Tales, Frank G. Speck
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This article describes part of a collection of mythological texts obtained from and dictated by Newell Lion of the Penobscot tribe at Oldtown Maine to Frank G Speck.