Phonetics and Phonology Research

This study proposes a new methodology for determining the relationship between child-directed speech and child speech in early acquisition. It illustrates the use of this methodology in investigating the relationship between the morphological richness of child-directed speech and the speed of morphological development…

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• SALİH SELÇUK İŞSEVER

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• RAHŞAN KEMERDERE

This cross-cultural study of emotional tone of voice recognition tests the in-group advantage hypothesis (Elfenbein & Ambady, 2002) employing a quasi-balanced design. Individuals of Chinese and British background were asked to recognise pseudosentences produced by Chinese and British native speakers, displaying one of…

• AYŞE KEYCE ÜSKÜL LOIZIDES

Previous studies on the role of vowel harmony in word segmentation are based on artificial languages where harmonic cues reliably signal word boundaries. In this corpus study run on the data available at CHILDES, we investigated whether natural languages provide a learner with reliable segmentation cues similar to the…

• FATMA NİHAN KETREZ SÖZMEN

In Central Italy several dialects display post-tonic regressive vowel harmony, by which post-tonic vowels copy all the features of the word-final vowel. On the basis of phonetic and phonological arguments I argue that the penultimate vowel of proparoxytones, the typical target of this process, is a prosodically weak p…

This paper aims at stressing current perspectives on pronunciation learning and teaching. It summarizes the background of pronunciation teaching, emphasizes the need for incorporating pronunciation into foreign language classes owing to regarding pronunciation as a key to gaining full communicative competence, and tak…

This paper aims at finding out pronunciation teaching techniques preferred by language teachers in either traditional or modern fashion. It summarizes the history and trends of pronunciation teaching in the world, lists traditional as well as modern techniques of teaching pronunciation, and tries to find out what thre…

OBJECTIVES: The Turkish matrix sentence test, TURMatrix, was developed for precise, internationally comparable speech intelligibility testing. DESIGN: The TURMatrix comprises a base matrix of ten well-known Turkish names, numbers, adjectives, objects, verbs, from which syntactically fixed sentences were randomly compo…

• DİLEK FİDAN
• GONCA SENNAROĞLU
• MERAL DİDEM TÜRKYILMAZ

OBJECTIVES: The Turkish matrix sentence test, TURMatrix, was developed for precise, internationally comparable speech intelligibility testing. DESIGN: The TURMatrix comprises a base matrix of ten well-known Turkish names, numbers, adjectives, objects, verbs, from which syntactically fixed sentences were randomly compo…

• GONCA SENNAROĞLU

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• UMUT ÖZGE

This chapter reviews current work on child second language acquisition from a generative perspective. The primary goal is to identify characteristics of child L2 acquisition in relation to child first language (L1) acquisition and adult second language (L2) acquisition and to discuss its contribution to these sister f…

• BELMA HAZNEDAR KESKİN