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Teaching Pronunciation In An Undefined Curriculum, Joan Elaine Branson
Teaching Pronunciation In An Undefined Curriculum, Joan Elaine Branson
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Observations On The Language Acquisition Of A Thai/English Bilingual Child, Michael A. Betcher
Observations On The Language Acquisition Of A Thai/English Bilingual Child, Michael A. Betcher
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A child subject, bilingual in Thai and English, was studied during his 25th months for aspects of transference* and interference in his developing speech. A speach diary was kept on a daily basis. Attention was focused on prosodic features (intonation/tonality), word borrowing and code switching. Examples of all these phenomena were recorded, but the most significant was that of prosodic interference, wherein English intonation indicating stress, excitement or urgency was carried over into the strictly regulated Thai intonation system. * A term which is used to avoid the negative implications of "interference" and to indicate the use of a syncretic …
Bengali Sound-Color Fidel And Spelling Charts And Their Analysis, Husne Jahan Alam
Bengali Sound-Color Fidel And Spelling Charts And Their Analysis, Husne Jahan Alam
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The Sound-Color Fidel represents in color all the sounds of modern Bengali and is designed to facilitate the easy recognition and reproduction of those sounds. The colored Spelling Charts are a group of phonic codes which include all the signs and spellings of written Bengali arranged in vertical columns corresponding to the Sound-Color Fidel. They are designed to organize and simplify the complexities of written Bengali. My paper explains the assumptions about teaching and learning I developed during the production of the charts, my understanding of the sounds and spellings of the Bengali language and their arrangement on the charts …