Impact of prosodic training on Italian as L2 by Hiberno-English speakers: the case of polar questions

Francesca Nicora; Laura Mcloughlin; Barbara Gili Fivela

doi:http://hdl.handle.net/10379/16305

Impact of prosodic training on Italian as L2 by Hiberno-English speakers: the case of polar questions

Francesca Nicora
, Laura Mcloughlin
, Barbara Gili Fivela

Italian

Centro di Ricerca Interdisciplinare sul Linguaggio (CRIL), Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy

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Abstract

This paper aims at investigating the efficacy of a perceptionproduction training on the production of Italian-L2 yes/no questions by Hiberno-English learners. Our hypotheses are that an intensive prosodic training improves the production of Italian-L2 prosody regarding both 1) the lexical stress patterns and 2) the intonation patterns, in terms of both their phonological composition and the phonetic details of their implementation. Though results are preliminary, the comparison of productions by trained and control subjects shows that, as hypothesized, only the former were able to change the prosodic features of yes/no questions in Italian- L2, improving as for both the lexical stress and the intonation patterns.

Original language	English (Ireland)
Title of host publication	Challenge and new prospects on prosody. The 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody.
Place of Publication	Poznán, Poland.
Pages	970-974
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	23332042
DOIs	https://doi.org/http://hdl.handle.net/10379/16305 https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2018-196
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2018

Keywords

Linguistics
Applied linguistics
Speech Prosody
Intonation
Intonational phonology
Linguistic variation
Irish English
Italian as a foreign language
Language instruction
PRAAT
Speech visualisation software
Prosodic-pragmatic competence
Prosodic-pragmatic training
Teaching practice
Contrastive linguistics
Classroom practice
University students
Data analysis
Phonological analysis
Transfer phenomena
Second language acquisition
Computer assisted language learning

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Nicora, F; McLoughlin, L; Gili Fivela, B

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Impact of prosodic training on Italian as L2 by Hiberno-English speakers: the case of polar questions. / Nicora, Francesca; Mcloughlin, Laura; Gili Fivela, Barbara.
Challenge and new prospects on prosody. The 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody.. Poznán, Poland., 2018. p. 970-974.

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Impact of prosodic training on Italian as L2 by Hiberno-English speakers: the case of polar questions

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