Phonetics experts have completed a project to reveal the hidden workings of our tongues and vocal tracts using 1,500 ultrasound videos. The unique corpus of ultrasound videos was compiled as part of a research project looking ...
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May 28, 2015
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Pronunciation accuracy may not be the most important thing for making non-native English speakers easier to understand, but rather it is their fluency, including fewer pauses, restarts and speech rate, according to research ...
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May 9, 2014
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Non-native speakers exposed to English before moving to America are more likely to use the language in their daily lives in the United States, according to a report led by Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public ...
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Apr 2, 2014
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(Phys.org) —U.S. high school "sink or swim" placement policies that propel immigrant students into courses that they're linguistically and academically unprepared for – or conversely, that funnel all newcomers into remedial ...
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Mar 8, 2013
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Native English speakers should give up their claim to be the guardians of the purest form of the language and accept that the ways it is used and changed by millions around the world are equally valid.
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Nov 2, 2011
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A study at the University of Leicester highlights the need for a new approach to the teaching of English pronunciation given that English is now a lingua franca, with more non-native speakers in the world than native speakers.
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Jul 20, 2009
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Southern dialects may be spreading across the UK, but the North is pushing back in some areas, new research has shown.
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Aug 8, 2022
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Britain is facing an uncertain future and an uneasy relationship with Europe after Brexit. Among other things, the country's woeful inability to learn languages has been raised as a key stumbling block—with the decline ...
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Jul 8, 2019
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For decades, more women have been entering male-dominated educational fields and careers. The proportion of men in female-dominated areas, on the other hand, has remained mostly unchanged. Now, gender gaps in female-dominated ...
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Apr 30, 2019
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University of Miami Frost School of Music Professor Carlos R. Abril has recently published findings of a research study designed to construct a national demographic profile of high school band, choir, and orchestra students ...
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Sep 8, 2011
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