This paper provides an overview of current issues in L2 prosody acquisition research and teaching. In particular, it discusses how L2 prosody contributes to the perception and production of foreign accent and may give rise to intelligibility problems. In the last session, it discusses the results of an exploratory study, which was aimed at getting an insight on the differences in English prosody, as produced by native speakers of Southern Standard British English and North-East Italian.
The role of prosody in pronunciation teaching. A growing appreciation?
BUSA', MARIA GRAZIA
2012
Abstract
This paper provides an overview of current issues in L2 prosody acquisition research and teaching. In particular, it discusses how L2 prosody contributes to the perception and production of foreign accent and may give rise to intelligibility problems. In the last session, it discusses the results of an exploratory study, which was aimed at getting an insight on the differences in English prosody, as produced by native speakers of Southern Standard British English and North-East Italian.
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