Speech directed toward infants is characterized by differences in pronunciation relative to speech to adults. Overall, mothers talking to their infants tend to produce slower rates of speech (Fernald 1992), higher and broader pitch ranges (Fernald 1984; Smith and Trainor 2008), hyperaticulated vowe...
While most word list are arranged alphabetic based on an order of letters and the number of letters used in the languages' spelling system, this method would arrange word list based on an order of marks & symbols, and the number of unique sounds used in the languages' pronunciation system....
Homonym a word that is identical to another word in pronunciation and spelling but not in meaning E.g. An ambassador is an honest man who lies abroad for the good of his country. Homophone a word that is identical to another word in pronunciation but not in spelling and meaning 同音异义...
It is important to note that all speakers identified Catalan as their L1, and declared that they were dominant in this language, with no influence of Spanish pronunciation. To confirm this, they had to answer the Bilingual Language Profile questionnaire (BLP, Birdsong et al. 2012), which inclu...
Jonathan Adams July 03, 2013 1 min有很多以英文為母語的外籍老師或是ABC、一些自認為英文很好、或真的沒依靠KK音標而把英文學好的人常對KK音標抱著嗤之以鼻的態度,甚至一昩地批評它的缺點,認為它是一套愚蠢的東西,根本沒有學習的必要。但是這些人看待KK音標的角度,類似晉惠帝「何不食肉糜」的想法,他們只是從...