Die fokus van hierdie studie is ‘n intervensie deur middel van die Klanke, Klinkers en Klawersprogram op Afrikaanse Graad 1-leerders se fonologiese bewuswording ten opsigte van leesgeletterdheidsvaardighede. Daar is gepoog om onderrig in fonologie te versterk en meer verrykend te maak deur middel van die integrering van musiekaktiwiteite. Die versterking van fonologiese bewuswording het leesgeletterdheidsvaardighede versterk. Tydens die aanleer van leesvaardighede is leerders aktief betrek deur na stories te luister, liedjies aan te leer en aan ander musiekaktiwiteite deel te neem. Volgens internasionale en nasionale leesstatistieke word leesgeletterdheids-vaardighede oral in die wêreld as ‘n probleem beskou, maar in Suid-Afrika neem dit kritieke afmetings aan waar die gemiddelde leerder in die grondslagfase groot probleme toon ten opsigte van lees. ‘n Moontlike rede vir hierdie probleem is dat fonologiesevaardighede nie onderrig word in Graad 1 nie. Weglating van die onderrig van sekere taalvaardighede soos fonologiese bewuswording lei tot swak leesprestasie by jong leerders. Oneffektiewe onderrigmetodes het ‘n beduidende negatiewe invloed op leerders se leesgeletterdheidsvaardighede. Hierdie agtergrond het my gelei tot die ondersoek van die navorsingsvraag naamlik: Tot watter mate sal ʼn Afrikaanse fonologiemusiekprogram ʼn invloed op Graad 1-leerders se fonologiese bewuswording as leesgeletterdheidsvaardigheid hê? In hierdie navorsing is daar gebruik gemaak van ‘n konseptuele raamwerk gebaseer op Howard Gardner (1983:9) se multi-intelligensies, met die klem op musikale en linguistiese intelligensies. Gardner (1983) bevestig dat leerders baat daarby vind wanneer onderwysers verskeie intelligensies in hulle aanbiedinge betrek. Die integrasie van musiek met geletterdheid soos voorgestel deur Russell-Bowie, speel verder ook ‘n belangrike rol in die konseptuele raamwerk. Russell-Bowie (2006) beveel die integrasie van musiek en ander vakke ten sterkste aan. Musiek dra by tot die ontwikkeling van effektiewe leesvaardighede deur die deelname aan genotvolle aktiwiteite. Onderwysers met of sonder musiekkennis of -vaardighede kan musiek onderrig, maar onderwysers met gespesialiseerde vaardighede word benodig wanneer gevorderde musiekvaardighede en -konsepte vir leerders aangeleer word. ʼn Kwalitatiewe, interpretivistiese benadering tot ʼn gevallestudie is gebruik om die intervensieprogram en navorsingsvraag te verken, te verklaar en te beskryf. Data is ingesamel deur visuele bewysstukke, dokumente, waarneming, onderhoude en ‘n navorsingsjoernaal. Die data-analise het plaasgevind deur kodering en tematiese analise naamlik: Tema 1 Geletterdheidsvaardighede; Tema 2 Musiekvaardighede en Tema 3 Die rolspelers se ervaring van die intervensie. Onderwysers speel ‘n noemenswaardige rol in die aanleer van fonologiese bewuswording deur die korrekte uitspraak van fonologiese spraakklanke. Bevindinge van die navorsing het getoon dat musiek wel ‘n positiewe rol speel in fonologiese bewuswording van Graad 1-leerders se leesgeletterdheidsvaardigheid. Die intervensie program het duidelik die leerders se fonologiese bewuswording versterk wat weer hulle leesgeletterdheidsvaardighed bevorder het. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / 6 CDs available with the study. Kept at the Open Scholarship Office in the Embargo room. / gm2014 / Early Childhood Education / unrestricted

The diploma thesis An analysis of the history of French borrowings' pronunciation from Middle to Modern English on the basis of corpus data attempts to account for the influence of Old French borrowings and their pronunciation on the Middle English phonological system with respect to Modern English. The theoretical part of the thesis explains extralinguistic and intralinguistic aspects of language contact and the related lexical and phonological borrowing, which is followed by an overview of the history of the English and French phonological systems and complemented by the corresponding scribal practices. The research is carried out on a list of French loans extracted from and further studied in Oxford English Dictionary. Selected samples are looked up in a Middle English corpus and their probable pronunciation is inferred on the basis of their orthography. The analysis is concerned with five French phonemes absent in the medieval English.

TITLE: Distinctive Features of Irish Accent AUTOR: Tomáš Uher DEPARTMENT: Department of English Language and Literature SUPERVISOR: Mgr. Kristýna Poesová ABSTRACT: The aim of this thesis is to examine the distinctive phonetic and phonological aspects of Irish English. The theoretical part provides a comprehensive description of the segmental and suprasegmental features of the Irish accent in contrast with the Received Pronunciation. The first section of the practical part analyses the speech of three Irish actors in Irish films and TV shows in order to examine the use of the distinctive features described in the theoretical part. The second section of the practical part presents a 45 minute long lesson plan on the Irish accent with suggested exercises for intermediate (B2) learners. KEY WORDS: accent, Irish, pronunciation, phonetics, phonology, lesson plan

The thesis presents a semi-supervised morphology learner developed by extending Paramor (Monson, 2009), an unsupervised system, to accept easy to obtain manually provided data in the form of inflections with marked morpheme boundary. In addition, a hierarchical clustering framework allowing combination of multiple sources of information was developed as a part of the thesis. The approach was tested on Czech, Slovene, German and Catalan and has shown increased F-measure in comparison with the Paramor baseline.

Inaugural dissertation: --Königl. Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 1906.

Inaugural dissertation: --Königl. Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 1906.

Thesis (doctoral)--Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [290]-303).

Proefschrift--Leyden. / Bibliography: p. [175]-181.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Florida, 1980. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 176-179).

TITLE: Teaching of French pronunciation aimed at nasal vowels SUMMARY: The thesis deals with the issues of French pronunciation teaching at Czech schools. The theoretical part is aimed at teaching of pronunciation, the key concepts of phonetics and its importance in learning of foreign language. Then the thesis deals with the base of French phonetic system, especially the nasal vowels, the comparison of Czech and French phonetics and the main methods of teaching phonetics. The nasal vowels and their pronunciation are the starting point for the practical part - research in the field of the ability of Czech students to recognize and pronounce the nasal vowels in a good way. The research is based on 95 recordings of Czech students from different classes (from high school to bachelor's programme). KEYWORDS: French language, phonetics, phonology, teaching of phonetics, nasal vowels