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Hi I'm in the middle of my PhD - a sociophonetic study looking at the acquisition of a second dialect in a second language, and I could really do with some...
Hi Jose, The course you're teaching sounds really interesting! Sorry if I implied that you were only using O & A - I didn't mean that! I find that "tonetic"...
Alex Selman invited me to join the PronSIG group - so here we are! We have submitted a proposal to IATEFL 2009 outlining the Dynamic Speech Corpus we are ...
Kudos to ya boys, good luck on the proposal. My name is Chris P. Madden (yes, that an Irish last name; great grandfather left in 1890 for Toronto Canada...)...
Rob Drummond wrote: "I could really do with some information about English pronunciation models used in Polish schools and universities. Basically, I need to ...
Dear Chris (Madden!), Â Your e-mail? Â Jose Tiziani Argentina ... From: japaneasynow <japaneasynow@...> Subject: [iatefl_pronsig] Re: Hello from Dublin...
Sure Jose, you can reply directly to my email, which is japaneasynow@... I am new to this group too, and dont quite know the in's and out's... Cheers, c....
Hello Dermott  Sounds really interesting. There must be a huge number of hours involved! Rcently I wanted to explain about corpora to my own adult ESOL...
Hi Sue and Chris, I am providing an outline of what we propose to talk about at IATEFL 2009 (if accepted!). It concerns the nascent Dublin Institute of ...
Well, Dermot, have a Guinness on me! That is one fantastic looking project, especially the pitch/speed variable control. Every single English learner in the...
Two  WOWS! First wow - that's fantastic - what a resource! Second WOW !   what a lot of work for yous!! Thanks for the inspiring goal!  Sue ... From:...
Welcome! I like the simplicity and memorability of the equations. Exactly what 'minus 1' and 'minus 2' are needs elaboration, of course, and the elaboration...
Well, thank you very much, Johnathan, yes, the 'Minus 1 and 2' quotients are really just metaphors for a small change and large change. The real issue is,...
Hi ALL, My name is Yi WANG and I am a PhD student at the Dublin Institute of Technology. My research area is how to help Chinese learners to cope with natural...
Hi everyone! Welcome to those who have joined in the past few weeks and thanks for posting. There's clearly a lot of interesting stuff happening in the world...
Hi all, A "Links" section is now available on this site on the menu to the left. It has actually existed all along, but I hadn't changed the default setting of...
Hi Peter, Thanks for that. I haven't used this one as I work mostly on a Mac and it's not compatible. Does it have advantages over Praat and Wavesurfer? Alex....
Dear Colleagues, My name is Anastazija Kirkova-Naskova, Teaching Assistant in English Phonetics and Phonology at Skopje University. I am writing this e-mail to...
Hi everyone! Well, 2009 has arrived and everyone I've spoken to in the last few days is stressed about the return to work. Hope you are all coping ok! I'm...
Hello Alex, (et al) and "Akeh omeh, koto yolo" to you too! For those of you who dont know Japanese, they are big-time 'clippers', wherein they will take a...
Dear All, I'm attaching, below, a message from an MA student in Macedonia who is looking for English native speakers to rate and comment on samples of ...
Thanks for the tips. I've been reading up on the "Rendaku" rules for Japanese pronunciation (the rules concerning when certain consonants are voiced) and found...
Hi everyone! Hope the year is going well. Speak Out! 40 has been arriving through letter boxes, and I would normally be posting a summary and inviting...
Hello Alex, and group. Yes, the Spanish rolling /r/ will not help you much in Japanese, unless of course you are feeling very incensed! The only time the...
Hi, Judy Gilbert asked me to forward this to the group: You might find the website below useful. Cambridge University Press has produced a series of...
Hi, Â recently someone posted a very informative message about the pronunciation of "r" for Japanese speakers. I've lost the message and name of the poster....
Hello Scott, i was that poster. Do you have Japanese students in Bankok? Let me be brief: Over 120 years the Japanese chose the letter /r/ to describe their 5...
