D. Litt. et Phil. / Evidence from several sociolinguistic studies suggests that second language speakers' pronunciation of their target language embodies several varieties of the target language pronunciation. These varieties have developed as a result of the particular social contexts of their language learning and language use. An acquaintance with the Tsongas who speak Afrikaans as a second language will confirm this suggestion- yet no in-depth study of any repute has been done among the Tsongas in this area. The only related study in this field was carried out by Nkatini (1978)...

Le langage et la musique sont deux éléments majeurs structurants une société. ils permettent aux membres de cette dernière d'entretenir et d'échanger avec autrui. ces objectifs sont communs à ceux de l'enseignant de langue-culture : créer des actes de langage. la production orale fait appel aux différentes connaissances de l'apprenant qu'elles soient syntaxiques, lexicales, phonétiques. les activités, telles que le théâtre ou le chant favorisent les acquisitions nécessaires à l'enseignement des langues et, plus particulièrement dans ce cas-ci, du français langue étrangère. ces deux supports sont un moyen didactique d'apprentissage qui, par le travail de création, puis de mémorisation, se détache des problèmes purement linguistiques pour se focaliser sur les compétences verbales, phonétiques et prosodiques de chaque apprenant.nous nous interrogerons sur l'évolution de l'enseignement de la phonétique en langues vivantes et plus particulièrement en fle puis des enseignements proposés par le théâtre et le chant d'un point de vue théorique. cette théorisation nous permettra par la suite d'observer si elle peut mener à une pratique plus performante. nous observerons les particularités des disciplines artistiques au niveau corporel, vocal, mais aussi d'un point de vue relationnel que ce soit au niveau vertical ou au niveau horizontal. ce dernier élément nous permettra ainsi d'observer le rôle de l'enseignant, la préparation que cela implique, les difficultés (choix du texte, gestion du temps, notation de ce type d'enseignement, l'implication ou non des apprenants, l'utilisation du métalangage propre au domaine de la phonétique, pallier les connaissances préalables et les transferts des apprenants…) auxquelles il peut être confronté ainsi que les apports que cela procure d'un point de vue pédagogique. nous tenterons de décrire et d'analyser ainsi une approche transdisciplinaire d'un enseignement-apprentissage possible de la phonétique et ainsi de répondre à la problématique de ce domaine : comment reconnaître et reproduire les phonèmes d'une langue étrangère. / The following study discusses the influence of drama and singing in the teaching and learning of French pronunciation as a foreign language. The theoretical part of this reflexion relies on interactionism, socio-constructivism and emergentist approaches. We will review the different methods of teaching pronunciation as well as the concepts of “norm” “correction”, “body langage” and “voice setting” in such context. Therefore, we conducted two experiments. The first study took place at the University Paris 3 Sorbonne-Nouvelle. We managed a singing project with students who learn French pronunciation at the A2 level. The second one dealt with drama and pronunciation with a group of A2 level students at the Catholic University of Paris. Through the observation and collection of pre- and post-tests we will present the results of the analysis of /y/ and /u/ of female voices through such protocols. This study aims to contribute to the field of pronunciation with artistic approaches.

University of Macau / Faculty of Arts and Humanities. / Department of Chinese

This diploma thesis occupies itself with non-systematic differences between British and American English. In its initial section, this thesis outlines the historical background, the origins of American English and its influence of British English. Subsequently, the systematic differences are defined, in order to distinguish them from the non-systematic ones. The comparison of two regional varieties is done on the basis of two respective pronunciation norms, i.e. Received Pronunciation for British English and General American for American English. The main part of the thesis is focused on the identification of isolated examples of dissimilarity which follow from the irregularities of both systems. An alphabetical list of transcribed words, personal or geographical names organized into segmental and suprasegmental areas is included in the Appendix.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:23:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gabriela Luiza Daneluci.pdf: 2534460 bytes, checksum: 24411d991d0093793c3694878f2b7cf0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-18 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The aim of this study is to verify how a teaching proposal, based on findings of a research developed in acoustic phonetics and with the support of technological resources, may contribute to the development of English L2 pronunciation. We will analyze the results that, in terms of speech production and perception, can be obtained from exercises to promote attention to acoustic cues that are relevant for sound discrimination in L2 and can contribute to sound acquisition. The theories that guide this study are the Acoustic Theory of Speech Production (Fant); the speech-learning model developed by Flege, and researches about phonetics applied to pronunciation teaching. Our research consisted in evaluating two subjects in semi-spontaneous tasks reading a monologue and a dialogue and in conducting perception tests for sound discrimination and identification. Based on test results, we developed phonetic training with the instrumental support of phonetic acoustic analysis and technological resources. Finally, the tasks were reapplied to verify the effect of the phonetic training and analyze whether subjects improved their perception and production abilities. According to comparative analyses of the tasks pre and post training, we could verify that both subjects showed improvements in their perception and production tasks. The results corroborate the principle of assimilation as devised by the Speech Learning Model / O presente estudo tem como objetivo verificar as contribuições que uma proposta de ensino, orientada por achados da pesquisa desenvolvida em fonética acústica e apoiada em recursos tecnológicos, pode oferecer para o aprimoramento de pronúncia do inglês como LE. São analisados os resultados que, em termos de produção e percepção de fala, podem ser obtidos pela aplicação de exercícios direcionados a promover a atenção a pistas acústicas relevantes para a discriminação de sons em LE e contribuir para a aquisição destes sons. Os fundamentos teóricos que embasam esta pesquisa são: a Teoria Acústica da Produção da Fala de Fant; o Speech Learning Model criado por Flege e trabalhos em fonética aplicada ao ensino de pronúncia. A pesquisa foi realizada com base na avaliação de dois sujeitos, na tarefa de leitura de um monólogo, um diálogo e atividade de fala semi-espontânea e em testes de percepção de discriminação e identificação de sons. Com base nos resultados de tais testes foi elaborado um treinamento fonético com apoio instrumental da análise fonético-acústica e recursos tecnológicos. Finalmente, as tarefas foram reaplicadas para verificar qual o efeito do treinamento fonético, analisando o quanto os sujeitos melhoraram sua capacidade de percepção e produção. De acordo com a análise comparativa das tarefas pré e pós-treinamento pudemos verificar que ambos os sujeitos apresentaram melhoras nas tarefas de percepção e produção. Os resultados corroboram o princípio da assimilação postulado pelo Speech learning Model

Este trabalho pretende contribuir para o estudo da Lexicografia no Brasil e abordar um assunto pouco estudado na literatura metalexicográfica: a informação fônica nos dicionários. Ainda que a principal função dos dicionários seja a de inventariar as palavras de um idioma e oferecer seu significado, é sabido que os consulentes esperam muito mais dessas obras. Além do significado, os usuários desejam encontrar nos dicionários a maior quantidade possível de esclarecimentos gramaticais. Dado que a pronúncia está entre as informações que constam nos dicionários, este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar essas indicações em dicionários monolíngues das línguas italiana e portuguesa e em dicionários bilíngues italiano/português. A pesquisa visa responder, com a metodologia empregada, as seguintes indagações: 1) qual sistema de notação é utilizado para anotar a pronúncia das entradas? 2) como a informação fônica é descrita no guia de pronúncia dos dicionários? 3) os dicionários descrevem as variações de pronúncia existentes nas línguas em estudo? Instruções de como pronunciar as palavras propiciam autonomia para que os aprendizes possam produzir oralmente as palavras. Com as análises, foi possível verificar se os dicionários em estudo conseguem fornecer ao consulente, de forma clara e satisfatória, as informações que ele busca quanto à pronúncia. Por fim, a proposta de melhorias nos sistemas adotados pelos dicionários no que tange a pronúncia tem o intuito de tornar o dicionário uma ferramenta mais útil no ensino/aprendizagem da produção oral das línguas italiana e portuguesa. / This work is intended to collaborate with the study of lexicography in Brazil as well as to address the subject yet little studied in literature metalexicography: phonic information in dictionaries. Although the main function of dictionaries is to relate a series of words from one language and also to offer its meaning it is known that the querents expect a lot more of this kind of publication. Besides the meaning, users wish to find in dictionaries as much grammatical clarification as possible. Since the pronunciation is among the information contained in the dictionaries, this work aims to analyze these indications in monolingual dictionaries of the Italian and Portuguese languages and in bilingual Italian / Portuguese dictionaries. The research primarily aims to answer, with the methodology applied, the following questions: 1) Which notation system is used to annotate the pronunciation of the entries? 2) How is phonic information described in the dictionary pronunciation guide? 3) Do the dictionaries describe the variations of pronunciation in the languages studied? The instructions on how to pronounce the words provide autonomy so the learners can produce words orally. By the conduced analysis it was possible to verify if the studied dictionaries can provide the querent with the information for pronunciation searched in a clear and satisfactory way. Finally, the proposed improvements in the systems adopted by the dictionaries in terms of pronunciation aims to make the dictionary a more useful tool in teaching-learning oral production of the Italian and Portuguese languages.

Geographically, Sweden is significantly closer to England as opposed to America, two English speaking countries with two rather different varieties of the language. With regard to Britain’s history of colonization it could be assumed that British English (RP-variety) would be most frequently used globally. However, America’s power position in politics, economics, international businesses, and movie industries have contributed to making the American English (GA-variety) the more predominantly used variety of the two (Barber, 2000, p. 236). In the different varieties, the vowels /əu/ /ou/ /ju:/ /u:/ /ɑ:/ /æ/ /ɒ/ /ɑ/ /aɪ/ /i:/ and the consonants /ə/ /r/ /t/ /d/ show the most prominent difference in pronounciation (Navrátilová, 2013). Furthermore, Axelsson (2002, p.144) (in Alftberg, 2009, p. 4) claims that with regard to the previously mentioned factors, Swedish students come in contact with several different varieties of English on a daily basis, thus a one-accent-only approach seems outdated for learning purposes. In addition to this, the syllabus for teaching English in Sweden, LGY11 (SNAE, 2011) lays focus, not explicitly on pronunciation, but on intonation and fluency, two factors which are certainly affected by one’s pronunciation and prosody. The document also emphasizes the importance of incorporating different varieties of English from different English speaking cultures and countries into the lessons (SNAE, 2011).This raised the question of whether or not Swedish upper secondary school students tend to follow the global Americanization of pronunciation, if they still adhere to using RP due to its geographical proximity and former prestige, or if they mix different varieties. Therefore, a study was conducted on Swedish students’ pronunciation tendencies and attitudes towards different pronunciations. 58% of the students claimed to use GA and said that TV/YouTube is where they hear English the most. Only 17% claimed they used RP. However, the recordings of the students indicated that the majority used a mixture of the two, and only one student was completely consistent in their variety. Keywords: English pronunciation, Sweden, General American, Received Pronunciation, Teaching, Upper secondary school

Liu, Duo. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 133-147). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract also in Chinese; appendix in Chinese.

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