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Acquiring a non-native phonology; linguistic constraints and social barriers.


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Acquiring a non-native phonology phonology, study of the sound systems of languages. It is distinguished from phonetics, which is the study of the production, perception, and physical properties of speech sounds; phonology attempts to account for how they are combined, organized, and convey meaning ; linguistic constraints and social barriers.

Hansen, Jette G.

Continuum Publishing Group

2006

197 pages

$125.00

Hardcover

P118

Hansen (English, Chinese U. of Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. ) works on both the theoretical and practical levels in this study of phonological pho·nol·o·gy  
n. pl. pho·nol·o·gies
1. The study of speech sounds in language or a language with reference to their distribution and patterning and to tacit rules governing pronunciation.

2.
 progress of English learners in a Vietnamese family over nearly one year, with the family arriving in the US about a year before the study. She focuses on the acquisition of consonants This is a list of all consonants, ordered by place and manner of articulation. Ordered by place of articulation
Labial consonants

Bilabial consonants

  • bilabial click [ʘ] 
 and consonant clusters, with the goal of illustrating developmental sequences in acquiring a second language. She reviews the literature in linguistic constraints, developmental effects, "markedness" and linguistic environment, social factors such as gender and social identity along with the extent of use of the first

and second languages, and variation based on linguistic, social and task effects. She offers her research on the family in terms of method and linguistic analysis and describes a unified approach in analyzing the resulting data. Thoughtfully, she also gives readers an epilogue ep·i·logue also ep·i·log  
n.
1.
a. A short poem or speech spoken directly to the audience following the conclusion of a play.

b. The performer who delivers such a short poem or speech.

2.
 to the story of the participants in the study.

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