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Title: AN ACOUSTIC CONSIDERATION OF TENSENESS IN SOME FRENCH AND ENGLISH VOWELS.
Creator: SWIFT, PATRICIA WORRELL, Florida Atlantic University, Resnick, Melvyn C.
Abstract/Description: This thesis investigates articulatory tenseness in French and English oral vowels. Chapter I reviews notions of tenseness, Chapter II presents experimental procedure, Chapter III contains results and conclusions. Tense vowels within a language demonstrate greater formant frequency deviation from a neutral vowel position than lax vowels. The deviations of the French nuclei [...] and the English nuclei [...] are compared using spectrograms made from recordings of Standard French and American...
Show moreThis thesis investigates articulatory tenseness in French and English oral vowels. Chapter I reviews notions of tenseness, Chapter II presents experimental procedure, Chapter III contains results and conclusions. Tense vowels within a language demonstrate greater formant frequency deviation from a neutral vowel position than lax vowels. The deviations of the French nuclei [...] and the English nuclei [...] are compared using spectrograms made from recordings of Standard French and American English speakers. Measurement is based on the difference in Hertz of the first three formant frequencies of each vowel and the corresponding frequencies of the neutral vowel position of that language. The French nuclei [...] exhibit greater deviation than the English nuclei [...] from their respective neutral vowel positions and are said to be comparatively more tense. The same measurement and criteria show that the English nuclei [...] are comparatively more tense than their French counterparts.
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Date Issued: 1972
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13536
Subject Headings: French language--Vowels, English language--Vowels, French language--Phonetics, English language--Phonetics
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: AN ACOUSTIC AND PERCEPTUAL STUDY OF SHORT AND LONG /A/ IN MODERN GERMAN.
Creator: LUDMER, MORRIS STANLEY., Florida Atlantic University, Resnick, Melvyn C.
Date Issued: 1971
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13419
Subject Headings: German language--Phonetics, German language--Vowels
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: AN EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF THE PHONEMIC STATUS OF OPEN AND CLOSED VOWELS IN SPANISH.
Creator: HAMMOND, ROBERT M., Florida Atlantic University, Resnick, Melvyn C.
Abstract/Description: The phoneme /s/ appEars as the sibilant [s] in standard Spanish and has a high functional load. In those dialects of Spanish in which /s/ --> [ø], however, the question arises as to how, apart from context, those morphological distinctions carried by /s/ are maintained. This study attempts to verify experimentally the often-repeated hypothesis that a compensatory phonemic change in quality takes place in the vowel immediately preceding this [ø] allophone of /s/ in syllable-final and word...
Show moreThe phoneme /s/ appEars as the sibilant [s] in standard Spanish and has a high functional load. In those dialects of Spanish in which /s/ --> [ø], however, the question arises as to how, apart from context, those morphological distinctions carried by /s/ are maintained. This study attempts to verify experimentally the often-repeated hypothesis that a compensatory phonemic change in quality takes place in the vowel immediately preceding this [ø] allophone of /s/ in syllable-final and word-final positions. Speech samples were elicited from four native speakers of Cuban Spanish; a perception test was constructed from these samples and was administered to 20 test subjects. The items used on the perception test were also studied spectrographically. In neither the acoustic nor the perceptual portions of this study could we find evidence of any phonemicization of differences in vowel quality before word-final /s/ --> [ø]. This investigation did show that vowel length is phonemic, in this particular dialect of Spanish, in syllable-final position before /s/ appearing as [ø]. A significant increase in vowel length provided the test subjects used in this study with sufficient acoustic cues to correctly discriminate pairs of words such as patillas [patiyas] and pastillas [paøtiyas] at a rate of 91.6%.
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Date Issued: 1973
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13599
Subject Headings: Spanish language--Dialects--Phonetics, Spanish language--Phonemics
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Title: A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH AND YORUBA SEGMENTAL PHONEMES.
Creator: RING, JAMES ANDREW., Florida Atlantic University, Resnick, Melvyn C.
Abstract/Description: This study is intended as an aid to the teaching of English as a foreign (or second) language to speakers of Yoruba. Four areas are discussed in relation to this aim: 1. the need for Nigeri an teachers who have studied the sound system of English 2. the theoretical basis and applications of contrastive analysis and error analysis (It is suggested that the two can operate together to reveal a learner's problems at the performance and competence levels respectively.) 3. the actual contrastive...
Show moreThis study is intended as an aid to the teaching of English as a foreign (or second) language to speakers of Yoruba. Four areas are discussed in relation to this aim: 1. the need for Nigeri an teachers who have studied the sound system of English 2. the theoretical basis and applications of contrastive analysis and error analysis (It is suggested that the two can operate together to reveal a learner's problems at the performance and competence levels respectively.) 3. the actual contrastive analysis (using Ladefoged's prime features as criteria for compariLon and prediction) 4. the error analysis, where errors are classified and discussed in regard to their explanation. It is shown that the articulatory parameters which cause allophonic variation in the native language (e.g. rate of breath release, vocal tract tension and coarticulation) are carried over into the pronunciation of the language being learned, and are major factors in producing a nonstandard accent.
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Date Issued: 1977
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13860
Subject Headings: English language--Study and teaching--Nigerian students
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Title: A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF PAPIAMENTO AND SPANISH VERBS, AND SOME THEORIES ON THE ORIGIN OF PAPIAMENTO (ANTILLES, CREOLE).
Creator: QUINN, ROBERT ANTHONY., Florida Atlantic University, Resnick, Melvyn C.
Abstract/Description: The first chapter of this thesis examines the influences of Spanish and Portuguese on the development of Papiamento, and concludes that Papiamento is most likely of Afro-Portuguese origin. The influence of Spanish, however, has grown steadily and to such an extent that Papiamento, regardless of its origin, has definitely become a Spanish creole. A contrastive analysis of the internal constituents of Papiamento and Spanish verb phrases, constituting the principal objective of this thesis, is...
Show moreThe first chapter of this thesis examines the influences of Spanish and Portuguese on the development of Papiamento, and concludes that Papiamento is most likely of Afro-Portuguese origin. The influence of Spanish, however, has grown steadily and to such an extent that Papiamento, regardless of its origin, has definitely become a Spanish creole. A contrastive analysis of the internal constituents of Papiamento and Spanish verb phrases, constituting the principal objective of this thesis, is presented in chapter two. Points of conflict and agreement in the formation of verb constructions in the two languages are emphasized in the course of the contrastive analysis, and the salient points are summarized in charts. The last part of the the sis consists o f a thematic index of works on Papiamento and a linguistic bibliography.
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Date Issued: 1971
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13463
Subject Headings: Papiamentu language, Comparative linguistics, Spanish language--Verb, Creole dialects, Dutch--Netherlands Antilles
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Title: A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPTS OF ASPECT IN THE VERB SYSTEMS OF ENGLISH AND SPANISH.
Creator: PRUCE, SUSAN MARILYN., Florida Atlantic University, Resnick, Melvyn C.
Abstract/Description: The Spanish verb is obligatorily inflected for aspect in the past tense: the speaker must indicate by his use of either a preterite or an imperfect form whether an action is perfective or imperfective. Because no such obligatory morphological distinction exists in English, the English-speaking student of Spanish may not always make the proper distinction between tense and aspect in the forms of the target language. The problem, then, is to teach the student to express the aspect of any past...
Show moreThe Spanish verb is obligatorily inflected for aspect in the past tense: the speaker must indicate by his use of either a preterite or an imperfect form whether an action is perfective or imperfective. Because no such obligatory morphological distinction exists in English, the English-speaking student of Spanish may not always make the proper distinction between tense and aspect in the forms of the target language. The problem, then, is to teach the student to express the aspect of any past verbal action so that he will be able to choose correctly between the preterite and the imperfect. A contrastive analysis of the role of aspect in all tenses of the verb systems of English and Spanish is presented for the purpose of ultimately formulating the best possible set of rules for differentiating between perfective and imperfective past actions.
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Date Issued: 1972
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13483
Subject Headings: Spanish language--Aspect, English language--Aspect, Spanish language--Grammar, Comparative--English, English language--Grammar, Comparative--Spanish
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Title: THE PHONOLOGY OF THE SPANISH OF TAMPA, FLORIDA.
Creator: HULME, ANTONIA LALA., Florida Atlantic University, Resnick, Melvyn C.
Abstract/Description: Thi s study consists of a descriptive phonological analysis of the Spanish of Tampa, Florida. Selected segmental features are then compared with those of the Castilian of Asturias and Galicia, as well as with present-day Cuban Spanish. The predominant influence in the phonology of Tampa Spanish is determined to be Cuban, rather than the Castilian of Asturias or Galicia spoken by many of the early settlers of Tampa. Several highly distinctive traits of Tampa Spanish are pointed out which would...
Show moreThi s study consists of a descriptive phonological analysis of the Spanish of Tampa, Florida. Selected segmental features are then compared with those of the Castilian of Asturias and Galicia, as well as with present-day Cuban Spanish. The predominant influence in the phonology of Tampa Spanish is determined to be Cuban, rather than the Castilian of Asturias or Galicia spoken by many of the early settlers of Tampa. Several highly distinctive traits of Tampa Spanish are pointed out which would facilitate dialect identification.
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Date Issued: 1973
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13612
Subject Headings: Spanish language--Dialects--Florida--Tampa--Phonology, Spanish language--Dialects--Florida--Tampa
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Title: PERFORMANCE ERRORS AND COMPETENCE ERRORS IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING.
Creator: MARTIN, JOSE MANUEL., Florida Atlantic University, Resnick, Melvyn C.
Abstract/Description: Competence errors reveal a learner's lack of knowledge of target language (TL) rules. Other errors may be corrected immediately and are regarded as performance errors. Some errors involve rules also within the learner's TL competence even though these errors are left uncorrected in speech, possibly because the still-unconsolidated rules require conscious monitoring which has been impeded in a stressful situation. This study proposes and tests the hypothesis that such uncorrected errors are...
Show moreCompetence errors reveal a learner's lack of knowledge of target language (TL) rules. Other errors may be corrected immediately and are regarded as performance errors. Some errors involve rules also within the learner's TL competence even though these errors are left uncorrected in speech, possibly because the still-unconsolidated rules require conscious monitoring which has been impeded in a stressful situation. This study proposes and tests the hypothesis that such uncorrected errors are also performance errors. Five adult Spanish-speaking learners of English were asked to perform three speech tasks under differing degrees of monitoring difficulty. They later edited a transcription of their speech and attempted to discriminate the correct form on a test. Errors that a subject edited and discriminated correctly were considered performance errors. Stabilized variability errors were inconsistently edited or discriminated, while true competence errors were not recognized by the subjects.
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Date Issued: 1982
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14111
Subject Headings: Speech errors, English language--Study and teaching--Spanish students
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Title: PROGRAMMING THE COMPOUND TENSES IN FRENCH.
Creator: DUPUIS, ESTELLE DUGUET., Florida Atlantic University, Resnick, Melvyn C.
Abstract/Description: Examination of the several French-language teaching programs published in the last few years reveals many of these to be methodologically unsound when evaluated according to recognized criteria (e .g., Albert Valdman, Trends in Language Teaching) as well as being deficient in their treatment of the French compound tenses, which are generally left untaught in these texts. A completely self-instructional linear programmed course was then devised to teach the morphology and internal syntactic...
Show moreExamination of the several French-language teaching programs published in the last few years reveals many of these to be methodologically unsound when evaluated according to recognized criteria (e .g., Albert Valdman, Trends in Language Teaching) as well as being deficient in their treatment of the French compound tenses, which are generally left untaught in these texts. A completely self-instructional linear programmed course was then devised to teach the morphology and internal syntactic structure of French verb phrases containing all the compound tenses, with both regular and irregular participles and the auxiliaries etre and avoir. This program was then tested, evaluated, and finally revised. The results demonstrate that the morphology and structure of French verb phrases containing compound verbs can be successfully taught by a completely self-instructional programmed text.
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Date Issued: 1971
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13446
Subject Headings: French language--Study and teaching--English speakers, French language--Verb phrase, French language--Programmed instruction
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Title: A SURVEY OF CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS AND ERROR ANALYSIS.
Creator: ROGERS, WENDEE OLIVIA SMITH., Florida Atlantic University, Resnick, Melvyn C.
Abstract/Description: This thesis presents an overview of the paths taken by the proponents of contrastive analysis and error analysis, addressing specific positions held and studies done in these two areas of linguistics. A brief historical survey of linguistics, learning theories, and teaching strategies is given, dating from pre-structuralism through to poststructuralism. Following a discussion of contrastive analysis and its influence on the development of error analysis, the merits of interlanguage are...
Show moreThis thesis presents an overview of the paths taken by the proponents of contrastive analysis and error analysis, addressing specific positions held and studies done in these two areas of linguistics. A brief historical survey of linguistics, learning theories, and teaching strategies is given, dating from pre-structuralism through to poststructuralism. Following a discussion of contrastive analysis and its influence on the development of error analysis, the merits of interlanguage are discussed for the purpose of demonstrating its very vital contributions to the field of second-language learning.
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Date Issued: 1980
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14015
Subject Headings: Contrastive linguistics, Grammar, Comparative and general
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Title: A DESCRIPTIVE PHONOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE SPANISH OF LIBERIA, IN THE PROVINCE OF GUANACASTE, COSTA RICA.
Creator: COWIN, SUZANNE MARIE., Florida Atlantic University, Resnick, Melvyn C.
Abstract/Description: Selected segmental phonemes of the Spanish of the city and canton of Liberia, in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, are described and analyzed on articulatory criteria. Tabulation of frequencies of occurrence of principle allophones of each phoneme show the rural and urban speech of this area to be similar in all but one feature, the pronunciation of /tr/. A comparison of the Spanish of Liberia with published data on the Spanish of nearby Nicaragua and the socially and politically influential Valle...
Show moreSelected segmental phonemes of the Spanish of the city and canton of Liberia, in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, are described and analyzed on articulatory criteria. Tabulation of frequencies of occurrence of principle allophones of each phoneme show the rural and urban speech of this area to be similar in all but one feature, the pronunciation of /tr/. A comparison of the Spanish of Liberia with published data on the Spanish of nearby Nicaragua and the socially and politically influential Valle Central of Costa Rica shows the sharing of important phonological features with the speech of these two areas.
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Date Issued: 1978
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13902
Subject Headings: Spanish language--Costa Rica--Liberia--Phonology, Spanish language--Provincialisms--Costa Rica--Guanacaste
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The Regularization of Spanish Irregular Verbs.
Creator: Oro, Cesar, Resnick, Melvyn C., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: By reexamining the concept of regularity and irregularity as applicable to the Spanish verb, a set of rules has been devised and presented here to enable the regularization of the vast majority of the Spanish traditionally termed irregular verbs. To accomplish such regularization, we have introduced or redefined several terms. The dichotomous division of verbs into regular and irregular is reexamined, and a third group of verbs is formed and treated as REGULABLE, Six constituents have been...
Show moreBy reexamining the concept of regularity and irregularity as applicable to the Spanish verb, a set of rules has been devised and presented here to enable the regularization of the vast majority of the Spanish traditionally termed irregular verbs. To accomplish such regularization, we have introduced or redefined several terms. The dichotomous division of verbs into regular and irregular is reexamined, and a third group of verbs is formed and treated as REGULABLE, Six constituents have been distinguished in each verb form as followsa Stem, STEM MODIFIER, theme vowel, THEME VOWEL MODIFIER, TENSE-MOOD-STRESS MARKER, and person-number marker. These are used to permit the consistent use of phonologically predictable paradigms for almost all Spanish verbs including the vast majority of the so-called irregular verbs in the language, The stem and theme vowel of each verb are always constant to enable identification and classification of all verbs from these two constituents. No two forms out of the fifty finite forms which constitute each paradigm are identical (excluding defective verbs and those with more than one paradigm); distinction between two generated forms is never based on stress alone. Furthermore, the stress distribution, tense and mood are always predicted by tense-mood-stress constituent. The thesis contains seventy-four tables, five charts, and three appendices. However, neither defective verbs (unless the defective verbs follow a definite regulable pattern) nor non-finite forms have been treated here. These rules demonstrate that the apparent arbitrariness of many Spanish verb irregularities are reasonable consequences of phonological principles.
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Date Issued: 1970
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000945
Subject Headings: Spanish language--Verb
Format: Document (PDF)

Spanish language--Verb (2)	+ -
Comparative linguistics (1)	+ -
Contrastive linguistics (1)	+ -
Creole dialects, Dutch--Netherlands Antilles (1)	+ -
English language--Aspect (1)	+ -

English language--Grammar, Comparative--Spanish (1)	+ -
English language--Phonetics (1)	+ -
English language--Study and teaching--Nigerian students (1)	+ -
English language--Study and teaching--Spanish students (1)	+ -
English language--Vowels (1)	+ -
French language--Phonetics (1)	+ -
French language--Programmed instruction (1)	+ -
French language--Study and teaching--English speakers (1)	+ -
French language--Verb phrase (1)	+ -
French language--Vowels (1)	+ -
German language--Phonetics (1)	+ -
German language--Vowels (1)	+ -
Grammar, Comparative and general (1)	+ -
Papiamentu language (1)	+ -
Spanish language--Aspect (1)	+ -
Spanish language--Costa Rica--Liberia--Phonology (1)	+ -
Spanish language--Dialects--Florida--Tampa (1)	+ -
Spanish language--Dialects--Florida--Tampa--Phonology (1)	+ -
Spanish language--Dialects--Phonetics (1)	+ -
Spanish language--Grammar, Comparative--English (1)	+ -
Spanish language--Phonemics (1)	+ -
Spanish language--Provincialisms--Costa Rica--Guanacaste (1)	+ -
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Resnick, Melvyn C. (12)	+ -
COWIN, SUZANNE MARIE. (1)	+ -
DUPUIS, ESTELLE DUGUET. (1)	+ -
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HULME, ANTONIA LALA. (1)	+ -
LUDMER, MORRIS STANLEY. (1)	+ -
MARTIN, JOSE MANUEL. (1)	+ -
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