Perspectives on Intonation: English, Finnish, and English Spoken by FinnsThis work is a thorough investigation and comparison of intonational features of two varieties of English: the English spoken by speakers of educated Southern British English and the English spoken by native speakers of Finnish. The investigation is based on a large database and an exceptionally thorough acoustic analysis, and the discussion presents new perspectives on interlanguage intonation. The work also contains a very detailed review of contemporary theories and models of intonation. This book is intended for phoneticians and linguists, as well as teachers and students of English as a foreign language. |
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acoustic Arnold model average FO Bolinger British data British informants Britons broad-focus sentences context conversation analysis Cruttenden 1986 deaccented dialogues discourse English intonation fall-plus-rise fall-rise falling tones Finnish data Finnish English Finnish informants Finnish intonation Finnish speakers Finnish test subjects FO values focus posit function fundamental frequency high-rise interlanguage intonation analysis intonation contours intonation patterns intonation-group language transfer last lexical item learner level tone linguistic low-rise Mann-Whitney test markedness mean FO models of intonation native speakers nuclear tones nucleus placement O'Connor and Arnold old information paralanguage paralinguistic phonetic phonological Pierrehumbert pitch accent pitch level pitch movement pitch pattern pitch range polar questions pragmatic prosodic features relevant rise-fall rising intonation rising tones Scherer second language acquisition semitone sentences 1-42 simple fall simple rise speakers of English spoken English spoken Finnish statement-questions statements syllable Tench theory tonicity utterance vocal folds wh-questions words yes-no questions