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Colantoni, Laura, and Liliana Sánchez. "The Role of Prosody and Morphology in the Mapping of Information Structure onto Syntax." Languages 6, no. 4 (2021): 207. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages6040207.

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The mapping of information structure onto morphology or intonation varies greatly crosslinguistically. Agglutinative languages, like Inuktitut or Quechua, have a rich morphological layer onto which discourse-level features are mapped but a limited use of intonation. Instead, English or Spanish lack grammaticalized morphemes that convey discourse-level information but use intonation to a relatively large extent. We propose that the difference found in these two pairs of languages follows from a division of labor across language modules, such that two extreme values of the continuum of possible

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Gut, Ulrike. "Nigerian English prosody." English World-Wide 26, no. 2 (2005): 153–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.26.2.03gut.

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Nigerian English (NigE) prosody has often been described as strikingly different from Standard English varieties such as British English (BrE) and American English. One possible source for this is the influence of the indigenous tone languages of Nigeria on NigE. This paper investigates the effects of the language contact between the structurally diverse prosodic systems of English and the three major Nigerian languages. Reading passage style and semi-spontaneous speech by speakers of NigE, BrE, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba were analysed acoustically in terms of speech rhythm, syllable structure and

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Fazyudi Ahmad Nadzri, Ridwan Wahid, and Zahariah Pilus. "The rise tone in the English and Malay intonations of Malay learners of English." Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature 16, no. 2 (2022): 56–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.31436/asiatic.v16i2.2648.

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   English is a widely spoken language around the world and its intonation may vary significantly across its varieties. Miscommunication is possible given that intonation may function differently in different varieties. Given this context, this study sets out to describe functions of the rise tone in the English and Malay intonations of Malay learners, and to determine the influence of their L1 on the use of the rise tone in Malaysian English. Sixty ESL learners were asked to narrate a short story individually according to a series of pictures presented to them. Eight of them

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Cruz-Ferreira, Madalena. "Portuguese and English intonation in contrast." Languages in Contrast 4, no. 2 (2004): 213–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lic.4.2.03cru.

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The current surge of interest in studies on intonation, in areas ranging from L2 teaching to child language acquisition, finally mirrors the crucial role played by intonation in the whole of human communication through language. In studies on non-native linguistic proficiency, a ‘foreign intonation’ appears as the last stronghold of a non-native accent, consisting in the use, in a second language, of intonation patterns belonging to the first language of the learner. The use of a foreign intonation does not, however, only characterise an accent. Intonation patterns convey specific meanings in

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Dehé, Nicole. "The Intonation of Polar Questions in North American (“Heritage”) Icelandic." Journal of Germanic Linguistics 30, no. 3 (2018): 213–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1470542717000125.

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Using map task data, this paper investigates the intonation of polar questions in North American (heritage) Icelandic, and compares it to the intonation of polar questions in Icelandic as spoken in Iceland and in North American English as spoken in Manitoba, Canada. The results show that intonational features typical of Icelandic polar questions are present to a considerable extent in heritage Icelandic. Furthermore, intonational features typical of North American English polar questions can frequently be observed in heritage Icelandic, too. In addition, there is a tendency for intonational fe

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Kundrotas, Gintautas. "Lithuanian language intonation: history of research, in the context of language intonology." Językoznawstwo 14, no. 1(14)/2020 (2021): 195–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.25312/2391-5137.14/2020_12gk.

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The linguists Jablonskis (1911) and Durys (1927) were the first to study Lithuanian language intonation. Research on intonation in other European languages (English, Russian) began earlier, in the 16th and 17th centuries (English: Hart (1551) and Butler (1634); Russian: Lomonosov (1743, 1765)). The beginning and the second half of the 20th century were the most productive research periods on Lithuanian language intonation. Intonation was studied by Lithuanian linguists – syntax specialists and phoneticians. A considerable amount of research using methods of experimental phonetics was carried o

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Mat Nayan, Noor, and Jane Setter. "Malay English intonation." English World-Wide 37, no. 3 (2016): 293–322. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.37.3.03mat.

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This paper presents the findings of a study on the intonational features in ten proficient Malay Speakers of English (MSEs), focusing on a distinct rising tone (the Cooperative Rise, CR). Using Brazil’s (1985) Discourse Intonation as a framework for analysis, the CR discourse function differs from the rise and fall-rise of Standard Southern British English (SSBE). The CR is a referring tone used to provide extra emphasis on important information and create a more cooperative and supportive tone. The form and function of the CR are examined in relation to SSBE and other varieties of World Engli

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Ortega-Llebaria, Marta, and Laura Colantoni. "L2 ENGLISH INTONATION." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 36, no. 2 (2014): 331–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0272263114000011.

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Although there is consistent evidence that higher levels of processing, such as learning the form-meaning associations specific to the second language (L2), are a source of difficulty in acquiring L2 speech, no study has addressed how these levels interact in shaping L2 perception and production of intonation. We examine the hypothesis of whether access to contextual meaning increases the chances of first language (L1) influence on L2 intonation. To test this hypothesis, we compared the perception and production of sentential English focus by 27 advanced English language learners (n= 13 L1 Man

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Col, Gilles. "Prosodie et émergence du sens : propositions pour une étude cognitive de l’intonation." Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 52, no. 3 (2007): 255–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008413100004308.

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AbstractThis paper aims at giving English intonation a driving role in the building and the emergence of meaning. It presents four propositions, going from the perception of intonation to its role in the representation of meaning. First, the concept of intonational form, based on the gestalt model of good form, is introduced. Second, the fundamental characteristic of intonational form is its dynamic nature. Third, intonation is positioned in the semantic layer, and is on par with the other linguistic components (syntax, lexicon, grammar). Finally, it is the evolution of the verbal scene that g

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Cruttenden, Alan. "Intonational diglossia: a case study of Glasgow." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 37, no. 3 (2007): 257–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025100307002915.

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Auditory and acoustic data were produced from recordings of a Glaswegian English speaker in conversational and reading modes. Clearly different intonational systems were used in the two modes. The reading style used an intonation similar to that used in standard British intonation (the intonation of ‘Received Pronunciation’ (RPI)). The conversational style was an example of the type of intonation used in a number of cities in the north of the UK (Urban North British Intonation (UNBI)), characterised by a default intonation involving rising or rising-slumping nuclear pitch patterns. This speake

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