Practical Phonetics for Students of African Languages

Phonetics of intonation in South African Bantu languages

Much is already known about the prosodic systems of the indigenous South African languages from descriptions and analyses in the existing literature. All of the existing work has been carried out in the field of African studies or formal linguistics. In order to be able to implement the generalisations obtained into computational models in speech processing, the existing sources and results mus...

study of cohesive devices in the textbook of english for the students of apsychology by rastegarpour

this study investigates the cohesive devices used in the textbook of english for the students of psychology. the research questions and hypotheses in the present study are based on what frequency and distribution of grammatical and lexical cohesive devices are. then, to answer the questions all grammatical and lexical cohesive devices in reading comprehension passages from 6 units of 21units th...

A System for Independent E-learning of Practical Phonetics

This paper presents a web-based system that supports students in their learning of phonetic transcription and production. It allows students to create their own exercises from an integrated database of recordings, according to their specific learning needs. Every recording in the system has been meta-tagged. For example, a cardinal vowel will have, among others, the tags ‘vowel’ and ‘cardinal’....

A Laboratory Course for Undergraduate Students of Phonetics

A laboratory course for undergraduate students of phonetics has been developed and tested at the Department of Phonetics at Umeå university. The course consists of exercises designed to acquaint the students with basic acoustic analysis methods, along with a small section on speech perception. All instructions are in the form of web pages. In addition it is posible to administer questionnaires,...

LMF for a selection of African Languages