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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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Yang, Tzu-Hsuan, and Annie C. Tremblay. "Perception of English lexical stress in different intonational contexts by Mandarin listeners." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 152, no. 4 (2022): A264. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0016218.

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The present study seeks to elucidate the nature of first language transfer effects on the perception of English lexical stress in different intonational contexts. Pitch (F0) is one of the acoustic cues to lexical stress in English, but crucially, pitch can only serve as a cue to stress when interpreted within the intonation system of English. In contrast, Mandarin is a tonal language where pitch carries greater functional weight for signaling lexical contrasts. Associating pitch to lexical contrasts, Mandarin listeners might therefore assume a one-to-one relationship between pitch and lexical

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Ran, Yunyun, Jeroen Van De Weijer, and Marjoleine Sloos. "Intonation in Hong Kong English and Guangzhou Cantonese-accented English: A Phonetic Comparison." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 11, no. 5 (2020): 724. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1105.07.

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Hong Kong English is to a certain extent a standardized English variety spoken in a bilingual (English-Cantonese) context. In this article we compare this (native) variety with English as a foreign language spoken by other Cantonese speakers, viz. learners of English in Guangzhou (mainland China). We examine whether the notion of standardization is relevant for intonation in this case and thus whether Hong Kong English is different from Cantonese English in a wider perspective, or whether it is justified to treat Hong Kong English and Cantonese English as the same variety (as far as intonation

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Burdin, Rachel Steindel. "The Perception of Macro-rhythm in Jewish English Intonation." American Speech 95, no. 3 (2020): 263–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00031283-7706542.

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This article investigates intonation’s place in what Sarah Bunin Benor calls the American Jewish English repertoire, a collection of features that speakers can use to index Jewish identity. Results from a perceptual experiment show variation in which intonational contours listeners associate with Jewishness. Jewish listeners, particularly those with connections with Yiddish speakers, pick out a phonetically distinct rise-fall as indicating Jewishness; however, non-Jewish listeners hear a different set of contours—a less phonetically distinct rise-fall and a rise—as sounding Jewish. The author

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Benjamin F.C. Nwokedi. "Effects of Mother Tongue Interference in the Learning of English Intonation." International Journal of Sustainable Applied Sciences 1, no. 5 (2023): 673–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.59890/ijsas.v1i5.736.

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The learning of English intonation by non-native speakers is a nuanced process significantly influenced by the interference of their mother tongue. This interference, often categorized under linguistic interference or language transfer, manifests in various facets of English language acquisition, including the critical aspect of intonation. Intonation, which encapsulates the variation in pitch while speaking, is integral to the effective communication and comprehension of spoken English. This study delved into the multifaceted impacts of mother tongue interference on English intonation learnin

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Hussein, Abdullah Uday, and Rafida Mansour. "Intonation Analysis of The Movie." Al-Adab Journal 3, no. 143 (2022): 17–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.31973/aj.v3i143.3935.

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Language has really changed in many aspects through the past hundred years or so. There are many factors due to which this transformation is seen in the present-day life in comparison with the more distant life; the modernization of the lives of the individuals as well as the communities around the globe, the invention of advanced technology in all fields of science, the awakening scientific discoveries and the rapidity of life has brought upon some coarse changes in languages, especially in English language. The purpose of this research is to know whether the language has really changed in te

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Ouafeu, Yves Talla Sando. "Intonational marking of new and given information in Cameroon English." English World-Wide 28, no. 2 (2007): 187–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.28.2.05oua.

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Studies on English intonation have shown that native English speakers consistently accent new information and deaccent given information in the discourse structure (Brown 1983; Fowler and Housum 1987; etc.). On the other hand, findings on the intonation of some non-native English varieties, Nigerian English (Gut 2003, 2005) and Indian English (Gumperz 1982) for example, suggest that speakers of these varieties of English rarely deaccent given information in the discourse structure, hence making both types of information prominent. This study reports findings of the analyses of the intonational

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Yi, Wang. "The Influence of Shandong dialect on English learning." Communications in Humanities Research 10, no. 1 (2023): 93–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/10/20231262.

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Phonologythe material shell of languagehas its own peculiarities because language structures and realizations vary. Behaviorist phonological theory implies that prior phonological patterns interfere with second-language communication. Learners inadvertently transfer their native language pronunciation to foreign language acquisition. The transfer is a psychological phrase that used to refer primarily to the influence of former learning on subsequent learning but now refers to the influence of one type of learning on another. Positive and negative transfers exist. English is Indo-European, whil

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Jowitt, David. "Patterns of Nigerian English intonation." English World-Wide 21, no. 1 (2000): 63–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.21.1.04jow.

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This paper presents some of the findings of a new experimental study based on Cruttenden’s model of intonation and using O’Connor and Arnold’s pedagogical materials. The study was designed to examine chiefly the form and frequency of intonation patterns among educated Nigerian speakers of English, not the communicative value of these patterns. The general conclusion is that certain patterns having a high frequency constitute a system in Nigerian usage, differing in important respects from native-speaker systems, though lacking stability.

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Qizi, Khasanova Mavluda Alisher. "COMMON INTONATION MISTAKES WHEN DEVELOPING ENGLISH AS AN OVERSEAS LANGUAGE FOR LOWER-INTERMEDIATE ADULTS." American Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanity Research 4, no. 1 (2024): 20–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/ajsshr/volume04issue01-04.

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Numerous pieces of evidence of studies into segmental phonology abound, however not a lot has been completed on intonation. From research, up to 70% of the issues related to the dearth of intelligibility in spoken verbal exchange are due to insufficient knowledge of patterns of English intonation amongst non-native speakers. The goal of this paper is to analyze the reasons accountable for relegation to the heritage of the coaching of intonation styles and check out the connections among intonation and that means. In conclusion, ion it becomes found that intonation has an exquisite influence on

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Luo, Shan. "The effect of pitch interplay on English-speaking learners of Mandarin." Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報). The journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA 52, no. 1 (2017): 28–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/csl.52.1.02luo.

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Abstract This study examines how native English speakers perceive and produce intonation and tone in Mandarin statements and unmarked questions. The results showed, as predicted, that English speakers had less difficulty perceiving intonation and sentence-final tone when the pitch movement of both was in the same direction than when it was not. On the production side, English speakers performed much better at producing tone than intonation. The intelligibility of their question intonation was especially compromised, likely due to their narrow pitch range. The English speakers also consistently

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Wennerstrom, Ann. "INTONATION AS COHESION IN ACADEMIC DISCOURSE." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 20, no. 1 (1998): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0272263198001016.

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This paper reports the results of a study of the intonation of 18 Mandarin Chinese speakers lecturing in English. As a basis for the study, it is proposed that intonation be considered a grammar of cohesion in English discourse: Drawing from the intonational model of Pierrehumbert and Hirschberg (1990), it is argued that discrete morphemes of intonation correspond to the categories of cohesion in Halliday and Hasan's (1976) typology. The study investigated the hypothesis that the nonnative speakers who were able to use the intonation system of English most effectively would score higher on a g

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Hedberg, Nancy, Juan M. Sosa, and Emrah Görgülü. "The meaning of intonation in yes-no questions in American English: A corpus study." Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 13, no. 2 (2017): 321–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2014-0020.

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AbstractIn order to investigate the distinct nuances of meaning conveyed by the different intonational contours encountered in yes-no questions in English, we conducted a corpus study of the intonation of 410 naturally occurring spoken interrogative-form yes-no questions in American English. First we annotated the intonation of each question using ToBI and then examined the meaning of each utterance in the context. We found that the low-rise nuclear contour (e.g., L*H-H%) is the unmarked question contour and is by far the most frequently occurring. Yes-no questions with falling intonation (e.g

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Local, J. K., J. Kelly, and W. H. G. Wells. "Towards a phonology of conversation: turn-taking in Tyneside English." Journal of Linguistics 22, no. 2 (1986): 411–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226700010859.

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Remarkably little is known in detail about the phonetics and phonology of naturally occurring conversational talk. Virtually nothing of interest is known of theinteractionalimplications of particular kinds of phonetic events in everyday talk: in particular about the ways in which participants in talk deploy general phonetic resources to accomplish specific interactional tasks. This is in part a consequence of the tendency of recent research on the phonological aspect of discourse to limit itself to ‘intonation’ as an area of primary interest. This work has moved away from the type of phonologi

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Zhang, Hongjie, and Jingna Li. "Intonation in L2 Discourse: Research Insights: Book Review." International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation 6, no. 3 (2023): 217–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.3.24.

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This book originates exactly from the interest in the discourse functions of intonation. It investigates the phonetic, phonological, and pragmatic functions of L2 English intonation in spoken discourse, grounded in Halliday’s systemic functional linguistic theories and taking advantage of a contrastive inter-language corpus approach. Structurally comprised of ten chapters, the compelling volume is split into two parts. The first part of the volume consists of the theoretical framework and the empirical methodology on which the present research is founded. The second part of the volume includes

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Nguyen, Hai Linh, Thi Luong Nguyen, and Duc Hanh Le. "Non-English-majored Freshmen's Investigating Perspectives and Attitudes towards English Intonation through Podcast Integration in a Vietnamese University." AsiaCALL Online Journal 14, no. 2 (2023): 168–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.54855/acoj.2314211.

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Intonation is a significant aspect of mastering effective communication but is often underemphasized in language education, particularly for non-English-majored students. This study aims to examine the background knowledge and perceptions of students regarding intonation before and after the utilization of podcasts. The study involves 120 first-year students at a Vietnamese university who are currently enrolled in a listening-speaking course. During five-week intervention, the students are exposed to activities that are based on podcasts. Data is collected through pre- and post-intervention qu

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Tench, Paul. "Processes of semogenesis in English intonation." Functions of Language 10, no. 2 (2003): 209–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/fol.10.2.04ten.

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Semogenesis, the creation of meaning, has been promoted by Halliday & Matthiessen (1999) as a ‘guiding principle’ in their presentation of a systemic functional theory of language — that language has within itself the resources by which people can create new meanings. Halliday & Matthiessen illustrated three processes of semogenesis and used an example of English intonation to illustrate one of the processes, deconstruction. This paper proposes two other processes, blending and reconstitution, to account for three other developments in English intonation: the falling-rising tone, the s

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Urazmetova, Alexandra V. "Determining the effectiveness of teaching intonation of the English language at a university." Perspectives of Science and Education 65, no. 5 (2023): 373–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.32744/pse.2023.5.22.

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Introduction. Teaching the skills of adequate decoding of intonation is an integral part of teaching English, along with listening, speaking and reading skills. However, teaching this aspect is not always given sufficient attention. The purpose of the experiment is to identify the ability of students to decode the emotional characteristics of a sounding speech in a non-native language, as well as to reveal the correlation between the development of rhythmic-intonation skills and the level of the English language proficiency. Materials and methods. The research is carried out on the basis of th

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Lim, Lisa. "Revisiting English prosody." English World-Wide 30, no. 2 (2009): 218–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.30.2.06lim.

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Many New Englishes are spoken in what can often be considered multilingual contexts in which typologically diverse languages come into contact. In several Asian contexts, one typological feature that is prominent in the multilingual contact situation (the “ecology”) is tone. Given that tone is recognized as an areal feature and is acquired easily by languages in contact, the question that arises is how this is manifested in the prosody of these New Englishes. Recent work has shown that contact languages, including English varieties, evolving in an ecology where tone languages are present do in

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Deterding, David. "The intonation of Singapore English." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 24, no. 2 (1994): 61–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025100300005077.

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The segmental characteristics of the English spoken in Singapore are quite widely described (e.g. Tongue 1979, Platt and Weber 1980, Brown 1988a, Brown 1991). However, the suprasegmental aspects, such as intonation, are less well documented, even though it is widely accepted that it is the suprasegmental aspects that contribute most to the distinctive character of “foreign” accents such as that of Singapore (Brown 1991: 4).

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Kim, Ji Young. "Spanish–English Cross-Linguistic Influence on Heritage Bilinguals’ Production of Uptalk." Languages 8, no. 1 (2023): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages8010022.

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The present study examines the production of uptalk in Spanish and in English by Spanish heritage speakers in Southern California. Following the L2 Intonation Learning Theory, we propose that cross-linguistic influence in heritage bilinguals’ uptalk may occur along multiple dimensions of intonation. In this study, we examined the systemic dimension (i.e., presence of uptalk and presence of uptalk with IP-final deaccenting), the frequency dimension (i.e., frequency of uptalk and frequency of uptalk with IP-final deaccenting), and the realizational dimension (i.e., pitch excursion and rise durat

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Mennen, Ineke, Ulrich Reubold, Kerstin Endes, and Robert Mayr. "Plasticity of Native Intonation in the L1 of English Migrants to Austria." Languages 7, no. 3 (2022): 241. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages7030241.

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This study examines the plasticity of native language intonation in English-Austrian German sequential bilinguals who have migrated to Austria in adulthood by comparing it to that of monolingual English and monolingual Austrian control speakers. Intonation was analysed along four intonation dimensions proposed by the L2 Intonation Learning theory (LILt): the inventory of categorical phonological elements (‘systemic’ dimension), their phonetic implementation (‘realizational’), the meaning associated with phonological elements (‘semantic’), and their frequency of use (‘frequency’). This allowed

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Ortega-Llebaria, Marta, Daniel J. Olson, and Alba Tuninetti. "Explaining Cross-Language Asymmetries in Prosodic Processing: The Cue-Driven Window Length Hypothesis." Language and Speech 62, no. 4 (2018): 701–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0023830918808823.

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Cross-language studies have shown that English speakers use suprasegmental cues to lexical stress less consistently than speakers of Spanish and other Germanic languages ; accordingly, these studies have attributed this asymmetry to a possible trade-off between the use of vowel reduction and suprasegmental cues in lexical access. We put forward the hypothesis that this “cue trade-off” modulates intonation processing as well, so that English speakers make less use of suprasegmental cues in comparison to Spanish speakers when processing intonation in utterances causing processing asymmetries bet

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Madzlan, Noor Alhusna, and Che Ton binti Mahmud. "Perception of the attitudinal function of intonation in responding to Yes/No questions: A study of non-native English language teachers." Studies in English Language and Education 5, no. 2 (2018): 217–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.24815/siele.v5i2.10476.

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This study highlights the importance of intonation and its function for intelligibility in communication, particularly amongst teachers in ESL classrooms. It was carried out to ascertain non-native English language teachers’ awareness of the attitudinal functions that intonation carries in responding to yes/no questions. Thirty Malay English language teachers working in a language centre were taken as the sample. Two different tasks, a listening test and an open-ended questionnaire, were provided to test their knowledge and perception of the attitudinal functions of intonation with regards to

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Kusumah, Surya Adi, and Silpia Rahayu. "THE INFLUENCE BETWEEN STUDENTS’ LANGUAGE POTENTIAL WITH THEIR OWN DIALECT." PROJECT (Professional Journal of English Education) 3, no. 6 (2020): 680. http://dx.doi.org/10.22460/project.v3i6.p680-688.

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This study was conducted to obtain information about dialect in student's potential whether it could be decided to speak fluently or not. Taken from one of institute which appear the idea to analyze the problem, the main instrument to collect the data was questionnaire and transform it to be narrative which aimed this research use qualitative method. From 4 dialects were used by the students namely Bataknese, Minangnese, Javanese and Sundanese which they use when speaking, especially the dialect’s intonation usage within English speaking. This will be impact on the learning method that might b

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Whalen, D. H., Andrea G. Levitt, and Qi Wang. "Intonational differences between the reduplicative babbling of French- and English-learning infants." Journal of Child Language 18, no. 3 (1991): 501–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000900011223.

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ABSTRACTThe two- and three-syllable reduplicative babbling of five French-learning and five English-learning infants (0;5 to 1; 1) was examined in two ways for intonational differences. The first measure was a categorization into one of five categories (RISING, FALLING, RISE-FALL, FALL-RISE, LEVEL) by expert listeners. The second was the fundamental frequency (F0) from the early, middle and late portion of each syllable. Both measures showed significant differences between the two language groups. 65% of the utterances from both groups were classified as either rising of falling. For the Frenc

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Cardinali, Renata Fabiana, and Maria Celina Barbeito. "Developing intonation skills in English: A systemic functional linguistics perspective." Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching 8, no. 1 (2018): 11–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjflt.v8i1.3222.

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This paper explores whether the teaching of English intonation within the framework of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) contributes to the development of intonation skills of Argentine Spanish speakers to become teachers of English as a Foreign Language. The findings of the study that focused on the oral production of students in the first course of phonetics in the programme offered at the National University of Rio Cuarto are presented. This paper reports the analysis of recordings of first-year students reading an English text aloud and the results obtained in the pre- and post-tests r

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Jekiel, Mateusz, and Kamil Malarski. "Musical hearing and the acquisition of foreign-language intonation." Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching 13, no. 1 (2023): 151–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/ssllt.23166.

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The present study seeks to determine whether superior musical hearing is correlated with successful production of second language (L2) intonation patterns. Fifty Polish speakers of English at the university level were recorded before and after an extensive two-semester accent training course in English. Participants were asked to read aloud a series of short dialogues containing different intonation patterns, complete two musical hearing tests measuring tone deafness and melody discrimination, and a survey regarding musical experience. We visually analyzed and assessed participants’ intonation

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Chong, Adam J., and James S. German. "Prominence and intonation in Singapore English." Journal of Phonetics 98 (May 2023): 101240. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101240.

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Popkova, Ekaterina. "The Backyard of EFL Teaching: Issues Behind L1 Prosodic Interference in Russian English." Journal of Language and Education 1, no. 4 (2015): 37–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/2411-7390-2015-1-4-37-44.

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Modern EFL teaching in Russia pays much attention to variations in the cultural schemata represented by students’ L1 and the target language, as well as behavioral patterns of their speakers. However, teaching practitioners scarcely address certain issues of Russian L1 prosodic interference that cause attitudinal confusion on the part of native English speakers. The study explores the wrong pragmatic effects created in English due to the transfer of Russian intonation contours and the reasons behind the failure of Russian EFL teachers to address the issue. Specifically, it investigates English

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Shevchenko, Tatyana, Elena Buraya, Maria Fedotova, and Natalia Sadovnikova. "Welsh English intonation and social identity." Sociolinguistic Studies 11, no. 1 (2016): 153–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/sols.29500.

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DEHÉ, NICOLE, and BETTINA BRAUN. "The prosody of rhetorical questions in English." English Language and Linguistics 24, no. 4 (2019): 607–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1360674319000157.

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This article contributes to our knowledge about the prosodic realisation of rhetorical questions (RQs) as compared to information-seeking questions (ISQs). It reports on a production experiment testing the prosody of English wh- and polar RQs and ISQs in a Canadian variety. In previous literature, the contribution of prosody to the distinction between the two illocution types has often been limited to the intonational realisation of the terminus of the utterance, i.e. whether it ends in a rise or a fall. Along with edge tones, we tested other phonological and phonetic parameters. Our results a

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Purba, Christian Neni, and Herman. "AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS' DIFFICULTIES IN USING ENGLISH INTONATION AT GRADE EIGHT OF SMP NEGERI 2 PEMATANGSIANTAR." Wiralodra English Journal 4, no. 1 (2020): 50–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.31943/wej.v4i1.76.

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This research is about the students’ difficulties in using English intonation. Since English is a foreign language, students always face problems especially in pronouncing the words. Pronouncing also refers to the intonation in conversation. Problem stated in this research as follow: What are the students’ difficulties in using English intonation? It focuses on the students’ intonation in a conversation, which consists of rising tone, falling tone and level tone. To answer the problem above, this research follows some theories, namely: Allen (1954), Hay craft (1971), Jones (1979), and Roach (2

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Bazarbayeva, Z. M., and B. O. Kozhamsugirova. "PROBLEMS OF PROSODY AND SOUNDING DISCOURSE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE." Tiltanym 185, no. 1 (2022): 3–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.55491/2411-6076-2022-1-3-14.

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Trying to combine speech recognition and natural language understanding to create a system capable of understanding conversational dialogues, we face a number of problems that are not encountered in text processing. Oral speech, as a rule, is more concise, less grammatically correct, less structured and more ambiguous than text, it is characterized by the absence of smooth fluency, processes of assimilation and reduction, divergence of syntactic and prosodic articulation of the speech sequence, temporal characteristics such as the length of pauses, the presence of hesitation pauses. , duration

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Graham, C. Ray, and Gertrude F. Orion. "Pronouncing American English: Sounds, Stress and Intonation." Modern Language Journal 72, no. 4 (1988): 469. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/327775.

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SANDO OUAFEU, YVES TALLA. "Listing intonation in Cameroon English speech." World Englishes 25, no. 3-4 (2006): 491–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-971x.2006.00469.x.

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Zhang, Wei, Hui Chang, and Yi Liao. "Effects of recasts, clarification requests on suprasegment development of English intonation." Porta Linguarum Revista Interuniversitaria de Didáctica de las Lenguas Extranjeras, no. 35 (February 3, 2021): 311–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.30827/portalin.v0i35.16949.

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A total of 102 English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners participated in the present study, which aimed to test how different types of corrective feedback-recasts and clarification requests-can differentially affect the suprasegment development of English intonation. All participants received 5 treatment sessions designed to encourage them to notice and practice the target feature in meaningful discourse; recasts or clarification requests were provided to the participants’ untargetlike production, except those in the control group (n=34), who received comparable instruction but without corr

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Ma, Chuan Dong, and Lun Hua Tan. "Comparative Study on the Supre-Segmental Phonemes between English and Sichuan Dialect." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 30 (June 2014): 51–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.30.51.

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Supra-segmental phonemes, the prosodic features of a language, including stress, pitch, intonation, rhythm and juncture, play a very important role in distinguishing meaning in English. This paper analyzes the supra-segmental phoneme differences between English and Sichuan Dialect from the following four aspects: word stress, intonation, rhythm and junture. We are convinced that if language teachers in China have some knowledge of the transfer theory and if they know clearly the similarities and differences of the supra-segmental phonemes between English and their mother tongue, it would be mu

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Levis, J. M. "Reconsidering Low-rising Intonation in American English." Applied Linguistics 23, no. 1 (2002): 56–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/applin/23.1.56.

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Rose, Terry, and Gertrude F. Orion. "Pronouncing American English: Sounds, Stress, and Intonation." TESOL Quarterly 27, no. 4 (1993): 768. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3587421.

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Mohd Nordin, Nurul Atasha Binti, and Kamariah Binti Yunus. "ESL Learners' Enhancement of Standard English Accent Among Khotimul Quran of A Primary School Students in Malaysia." Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (MJSSH) 5, no. 1 (2020): 100–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.47405/mjssh.v5i1.357.

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   CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) is a new syllabus for English language subject of Malaysia primary school students. However, none of pronunciation elements involve the stress, rhythm and intonation have been emphasized to accomplish Standard English Accent. The issue is that, Malaysian primary school students do not apply correct stress and intonation while speaking and reading Standard English. Therefore, this study aims to identify the use of stress, rhythm and intonation applied in their spoken English words by both groups. The researcher had

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