Native Listening

Author : Anne Cutler
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262527510
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native Listening written by Anne Cutler and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that the way we listen to speech is shaped by our experience with our native language. Understanding speech in our native tongue seems natural and effortless; listening to speech in a nonnative language is a different experience. In this book, Anne Cutler argues that listening to speech is a process of native listening because so much of it is exquisitely tailored to the requirements of the native language. Her cross-linguistic study (drawing on experimental work in languages that range from English and Dutch to Chinese and Japanese) documents what is universal and what is language specific in the way we listen to spoken language. Cutler describes the formidable range of mental tasks we carry out, all at once, with astonishing speed and accuracy, when we listen. These include evaluating probabilities arising from the structure of the native vocabulary, tracking information to locate the boundaries between words, paying attention to the way the words are pronounced, and assessing not only the sounds of speech but prosodic information that spans sequences of sounds. She describes infant speech perception, the consequences of language-specific specialization for listening to other languages, the flexibility and adaptability of listening (to our native languages), and how language-specificity and universality fit together in our language processing system. Drawing on her four decades of work as a psycholinguist, Cutler documents the recent growth in our knowledge about how spoken-word recognition works and the role of language structure in this process. Her book is a significant contribution to a vibrant and rapidly developing field.

Author : Alison Owings
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813549655
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Voices written by Alison Owings and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary oral history documenting what Native Americans from 16 different tribal nations say about themselves and the world around them.

Author : Dylan Robinson
Publisher : Indigenous Americas
ISBN 13 : 9781517907693
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hungry Listening written by Dylan Robinson and published by Indigenous Americas. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This highly theoretical work of ethnomusicology is a reclamation of Indigenous ceremonial and artistic practice arguing that the inclusion and appropriation of Indigenous performers in classical music traditions only enriches the settler nation-state. Robinson gives shape to Western musical and aesthetic practices as well as to Indigenous listening practices in order to eschew traditional (Western) forms of musical analysis. Instead, the work argues that new modes of listening and studying reception, emerging out of critical Indigenous studies, are essential to understanding Indigenous musical expression in ways that do not reify the power of the settler state"--

Author : Lee Schweninger
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820330587
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Listening to the Land written by Lee Schweninger and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Looks at the challenges faced by Native American writers who confront stereotypical representations as they assert their own ethical relationship with the earth. Lee Schweninger considers a range of genres by Native writers from various parts of the United States. Contextualizing these works within the origins, evolution, and perpetuation of the 'green' labels imposed on American Indians, Schweninger shows how writers often find themselves denying some land ethic stereotypes while seeming to embrace others"--From publisher description.

Author : Gary Rybold
Publisher : IDEA
ISBN 13 : 9781932716245
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speaking, Listening and Understanding written by Gary Rybold and published by IDEA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first text designed specifically to introduce debate to new English language speakers. Written in clear, easily accessible prose, it presents the basics of debate while avoiding the complexity and excessive cultural references that make standard texts difficult for this audience to use. Each chapter includes a list of the important concepts and key vocabulary terms as well as exercises that will help students master the skill discussed. All definitions are listed in a glossary.

Author : Wayne F. Peate
Publisher : Rio Nuevo Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781887896528
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Listening with Your Heart written by Wayne F. Peate and published by Rio Nuevo Pub. This book was released on 2003 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rx: Take small miracles daily. "The spirit runs through the body," says Dr. Peate, a practicing physician who draws on his Iroquois heritage as well as his Western medical training. Listening with Your Heart is a rich gathering of time-honored sayings, sacred words, and practical suggestions to improve your health. Listenwith your heartto the words of these wise men and women. "Close your eyes and you see better and hear better."Navajo healer "The White man talks about the mind and body and spirit as if they are separate. For us they are one. Our whole life is spiritual from the time we get up until we go to bed."Yakima healer "May the story give you strength. May the belief relieve your pain."Mohawk-Onondaga healer

Author : National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
Publisher : National Geographic Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Listening to Our Ancestors written by National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) and published by National Geographic Society. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with never-before-published artifacts from the unique treasures in the museum's Northwest Coast collections, Listening to Our Ancestors profiles native communities of the Pacific Northwest and showcases the region's rich cultural history and artwork. Sophisticated in conception and execution and rich with symbolism, the totem poles, painted housefronts, masks, dance regalia, feast bowls, and elaborately decorated boxes made by the native people of the North Pacific Coast have long been recognized as masterworks of art. Here, in a series of community self-portraits, cultural figures from eleven Northwest Coast nations discuss the ways in which these masterpieces, as well as everyday tools and utensils from the museum's collections, connect them with their forbears, who made and used these beautiful objects. Kwakwaka'wakw Chief Robert Joseph and the community curators contrast the approach anthropologists and art historians have taken to the treasures of the Northwest with Native people's perspective on their cultural legacy. In addition, Mary Jane Lenz explores the Northwest as a crossroads of native and non-native worlds in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when many of these works were collected, and today. With its striking images and community self-portraits, Listening to Our Ancestors invites readers to appreciate Northwest Coast art as its native inheritors do—for the spirit with which it is endowed. Official companion to the exhibition opening at the National Museum of the American Indian in November 2005.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 106-1 Hearing: Federally Funded Native Hawaiian Programs, S. Hrg. 106-409, August 16, 1999 written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 106-2 Joint Hearing: Native Hawaiian Federal Recognition, S. Hrg. 106-753, Pt. 3, August 30, 2000 written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 106-2 Joint Hearing: Native Hawaiian Federal Recognition, S. Hrg. 106-753, Pt. 5, September 1, 2001 written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: