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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Research shows that children use head gestures to mark discourse focus before developing the required prosodic cues in their first language (L1), and their gestures affect the prosodic parameters of their speech. We investigated whether head gestures also act as precursors and bootstrappers of prosodic focus marking in second language (L2 ...
Lieke van Maastricht +1 more
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Whereas L2 fluency research has focused on monologic speech, interactional fluency (IF), particularly during turn transitions, remains underexplored. This study investigates how turn‐managing gestures (TMGs) contribute to L2 IF, drawing on 60 dyadic interactions from Taiwanese learners in the International Corpus Network of Asian Learners of ...
Yen‐Liang (Eric) Lin +2 more
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Introduction: Intonation in African tone languages
, 2016 The introduction to the book surveys issues in intonation in African tone languages, such as downstep, final lowering, question prosody and focus prosody that are raised by the chapters in the ...
Downing, Laura J.,, Rialland, Annie
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, 2017 Intonation impacts pragmatic meaning. A range of empirical evidence shows that the pragmatic functions of intonation are specifiable. The dimensions of meaning impacted by intonation include at-issue meanings (for example, what is asserted in an ...
Brady Clark
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores the potential of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) as an alternative to human interlocutors for assessing interactional competence (IC) in a second language (L2). Thirty L2 English speakers completed a 6‐item roleplay task designed to elicit refusals of requests, invitations, and offers, interacting with both a ...
Yunwen Su, Xi Chen
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Focus and intonation in japanese : does focus trigger pitch reset?
, 2008 This paper discusses how focus change s prosodic structure in Tokyo Japanese. It is generally believed that focus blocks the intonational process of downstep and causes a pitch reset.
Kubozono, Haruo
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STUDENTS’ INTONATION IN NEWS DISCOURSE
, 2019 Intonation plays crucial role in news discourse, mainly: in producing utterance. Speaker has to consider the intonation of his/her utterance in sentence.
Kristanti, Ika Lusi
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Deception behind bars: A mixed‐methods investigation of inmates' beliefs about lie detection
Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose This study examines incarcerated individuals' beliefs about deception detection, focusing on perceptions of successful liars, cues used to identify deception and endorsement of stereotypical beliefs. Methods A mixed‐methods design combining qualitative and quantitative methods was used.
Andreea Turi, Laura Visu‐Petra
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Intonation focus in the interlanguage of a group of Spanish learners of English
, 2005 The present paper is a report on intonation errors made by a group of Spanish learners of EFL in their last year of Secondary School (2° Bachillerato). More specifically, we attempt to identify and classify the errors relating to the students\u27 use of ...
Gutiérrez Díez, Francisco
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, 2021 This article discusses that human language is the language of sound, sound lives in the intonation structure, the elements which contain intonation and the forms of their ...
Ne’matova Donoxon Saidjalolovna +1 more
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