Denis Burnham
List of John Benjamins publications for which Denis Burnham plays a role.
Articles
2013 Phonics vs. whole-word instruction in a tone language: Spelling errors on consonants, vowels, and tones over age Written Language & Literacy 16:1, pp. 60–76 | Article
Phonics vs. whole-word instruction effects on spelling proficiency were investigated for Thai, an alphabetic script that represents tonemes orthographically. Errors made by a cross-sectional convenience sample of 128 children aged 6, 8, 10, and 12 years old and 25 adults were categorized by… read more
2007 The perception of tones and phones Language Experience in Second Language Speech Learning: In honor of James Emil Flege, Bohn, Ocke-Schwen and Murray J. Munro (eds.), pp. 259–280 | Article
Tone languages use lexical tone at the syllable level to contrast word meaning. In this chapter we present an overview of the status of tone research to date – what tone is, its unique status as both a segmental and suprasegmental feature of speech, and how it differs from other pitch-related… read more