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• The Sound and the Shapey - Conclusion

  
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  The results of the poll from the post, The Sound and the Shapey  - The blue shape is a kiki and the green shape is a bouba. 91.8% The results of the poll from the post,  The Sound and the Shapey 2  - The shape on the left is a takete, and the shape on the right is a maluma. 91.3% The ...
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• "Chinese" well beyond Mandarin

  
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  A topic which I have raised here and elsewhere a number of times is that of Sinitic topolects and languages ( www.sino-platonic.org/complete/spp029_chinese_dialect.pdf ), and I have also called attention to the increasing domination of Mandarin in education and the media.  Even native speakers within China ...
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• Phonetics: /k/

  
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  In British English the Phonetic symbol  /k/  corresponds to the initial consonant sound in words like " kiss ", and " cold " and the final one in " book " and " black ". Just to keep students on their toes, there are also a few words where it corresponds to " ch ". It is a voiceless consonant.  ...
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• Ordinary Sounds That Come From Foreign Languages

  
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  A list of everyday sounds, and where they appear in languages other than English:Bilabial trill -...
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• The Sound and the Shapey 2

  
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  A variation of last weeks post  regarding the mapping between speech sounds and the visual shape of objects. One of the above shapes is a takete and one is a maluma; which is which? Please participate in the following poll only if you are not familiar with the experiment. There is not a right or wrong ...
  2 weeks ago

• Early Childhood Education: the Importance of Phonological Awareness

  
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  There are many factors that go into how a child learns to read, write, and spell.  Phonological awareness in early childhood is a proven predictor of how well a child will progress in their literary performance.  Today’s post explains the basics of phonological awareness and how to better develop it in young ...
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• The Sound and the Shapey

  
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  The following shapes were used in a well-known psychological experiment regarding the mapping between speech sounds and the visual shape of objects. The original experiment was conducted in the late 1920s; it has been repeated since then with slight variations. I have included a poll below to see what my ...
  3 weeks ago

• Phonetics: /eə/

  
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  In British English the phonetic symbol  /eə/  corresponds to the vowel sound in words like "hair" and "wear". It is a long vowel sound, this is called a diphthong.  Some common words which practice the pronunciation of /eə/ include the following: with " ar ":  bare - care - dare - fare - hare ...
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• nativefunkk:Proper evaluations of words and letters in their...

  
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  nativefunkk: Proper evaluations of words and letters in their phonetic and associated sense can bring the people of earth to the clear light of pure cosmic wisdom :: SUN RA
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• Art Inspired by Phonetics

  
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  “Dialogues” is a phonetics-inspired piece by designer Steve Haslip that is featured in...
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• Computer game trains ability to distinguish sounds

  
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  Language impairment in children is defined as language problems that are not due to hearing difficulties. Children with language impairment have difficulty registering the components of language correctly, and also have difficulty producing sounds, words and sentences. Professor of Speech and Language Therapy Birgitta ...
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• Alexander Ellis on the chameleon nature of language

  
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  Alexander John Ellis (1814–90) was a musicologist, philologist and phonetician whose approach to language was systematic and descriptive. He gave primacy to speech over written forms, writing in chapter 1, vol. 1 of his magnum opus On Early English Pronunciation (1869–89) that “a real, living, growing ...
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