The Effects of Cross-Language Differences on Bilingual Production and/or Perception of Sentence-Level Intonation - Hardcover

 
9783036574547: The Effects of Cross-Language Differences on Bilingual Production and/or Perception of Sentence-Level Intonation
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3036574549 ISBN 13: 9783036574547
Publisher: Mdpi AG, 2023

Synopsis

This Special Issue features a collection of state-of-the art articles on the intonational patterns of different types of bilinguals (e.g., second language learners; heritage speakers; simultaneous bilinguals), with a particular focus on understudied language pairings and encompassing a wide variety of languages (e.g. Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, German, English, French, Inuktitut, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, and Spanish). The papers in this Special Issue address a number of questions that have so far remained unanswered: Can we determine a hierarchy of difficulty or transferability? How does prosody interact with other components of the grammar, such as morphology or syntax, in a contact situation? Which aspects are more prone to bidirectional interference? Which changes in intonation make speakers sound foreign in their second (or first) language? The papers in this Special Issue offer answers to these questions and open up multiple avenues for future research. We hope that this Special Issue will inspire future studies on intonation and bilingualism.

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Publisher
Mdpi AG
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3036574549
ISBN 13 
9783036574547
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
252
Editor
Mennen Ineke, Colantoni Laura