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*With CD-ROM. Non-Native Prosody: Phonetic Description and Teaching Practice is a response to the increasing interest in the field of prosody in second language acquisition and teaching. The volume presents an overview of the state of the art in second language prosody learning and teaching and brings together linguistic research on the description and modelling of non-native prosodic structures with L2 teaching methods and practices. The first part comprises descriptions of non-native prosodic structures (including intonation, stress and speech rhythm) as well as methodological considerations of research in second language acquisition written by experts in the field. These overviews of current theoretical models and results from empirical studies are presented in a format accessible to language teachers. In the second part, some of the leading teaching practitioners and developers of phonological learning materials present a variety of methods and exercises in the area of prosody. The accompanying audio examples on a CD-ROM make a useful addition illustrating the descriptions and exercises for various target and source languages.
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Non-Native Prosody
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Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs 186
Editors
Walter Bisang Hans Henrich Hock (main editor for this volume)
Werner Winter
Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York
Non-Native Prosody Phonetic Description and Teaching Practice
edited by
Jürgen Trouvain Ulrike Gut
Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York
Mouton de Gruyter (formerly Mouton, The Hague) is a Division of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Non-native prosody / edited by Jürgen Trouvain, Ulrike Gut. p. cm. ⫺ (Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 186) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-3-11-019524-8 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Language and languages ⫺ Study and teaching. 2. Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) ⫺ Study and teaching. I. Trouvain, Jürgen. II. Gut, Ulrike. P53.68.N66 2007 4141.6⫺dc22 2007021894
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Preface
The present volume brings together contributions by a group of researchers and teachers with a shared interest in the description and teaching of the prosody of a second language. The idea for this book was conceived at the International Workshop on “Non-native prosody: phonetic description and teaching practice”, held at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken on March 4th and 5th 2005. The two central objectives of the workshop were to stimulate research and teaching of second language prosody and to establish an interchange between researchers and language teachers. The last two decades have witnessed an increasing interest in prosody in general, yet most research on non-native speech is still restricted to segmental structures and largely disregards suprasegmental features like pitch and temporal structures; few publications as yet deal with L2 pros