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In this paper we call into question the value of ‘rules’ concerning intonation to the learner of English. Are there predictive rules of sufficient generality and power to make them worth learning explicitly, or would learners’ time be better spent on ...
Michael George Ashby, Patricia Ashby
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German – like English and Italian – is classified as an intonation language. Intonation languages differ from tone languages in that the speech melody operates at the postlexical level (i.e.
Moroni, Manuela Caterina
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Intonation in African languages remains an especially understudied topic of investigation. Chichewa is, then, rather exceptional, as there exist both purely impressionistic studies of intonation for the language, such as Kanerva (1990), as well as more ...
Al Mtenje, Laura J. Downing
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An Analysis of the Strategies for Developing Students’ Consciousness of Pronunciation and Intonation in College English Teaching Based on the International Communication [PDF]
Under the background of international communication, college students’ English listening and speaking ability has been put forward higher requirements.
Gui Ling
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An Acoustic Study on The Effects Intonation Imposes on Sentence-final Particles in Nanjing Dialect [PDF]
To investigate the interaction between tone and intonation on the production of the sentence-final syllables and the effects of a specific type of characters, i.e.
Liu Yuge
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This study uses a qualitative approach by presenting data descriptively. This study aims to determine how Japanese native speakers perceive Japanese learners' soudesuka’s intonation pronunciation. Three Japanese native speakers participated in this study
Naura Rohadatul 'Aisy
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Plasticity of Native Intonation in the L1 of English Migrants to Austria
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 ...
Ineke Mennen +3 more
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History and research of intonation in English and American linguistics
This article presents a comprehensive linguistic analysis of intonation with a systematic identification of the most important functions and features of the phonetic design of this phenomenon based on the American film "Clueless".
Sarkhan Jafarov
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TEACHING EMOTIONAL ENGLISH INTONATION
This experimental research focuses on teaching emotional English intonation with video at university as this issue is not presented in scientific literature.
Natalia Mospan
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Intonation processing of interrogative words in Mandarin: an event-related potential study
Intonation is the variation in pitch used in speech, which forms the premise of tonal and non-tonal languages. Interrogative words are words that introduce questions.
Rui Wang +2 more
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