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Abstract
Although research on intonational phonology plays a crucial role in second language acquisition, scientific contributions investigating prosodic features in a contrastive perspective are scarce. This study aims at investigating the effects of a prosodic-pragmatic training on HibernoEnglish learners of Italian. Preliminary results indicate that learners modify prosodic features of broad focus declaratives and information-seeking yes/no questions, improving both lexical stress position and intonational pattern in terms of phonological composition.
| Original language | English (Ireland) |
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| Title of host publication | Lingua in Contesto. La prospettiva pragmatica |
| Publisher | Studi AItLA 9, Officinaventuno |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Feb 2019 |
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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 4 Quality Education
Keywords
- Language learning
- Speech Prosody
- Intonation
- Intonation teaching
- Irish English
- Italian
- Italian as a foreign language
- Corpus linguistics
- Learner corpora
- PRAAT
- Speech visualisation software
- Prosodic-pragmatic training
- Prosodic-pragmatic competence
- Language instruction
- Intonational patterns
- Teaching practice
- Teaching material
- Pedagogics
- Didactics
- Language teaching
- University students
- Classroom practice
- Language laboratory
- Language learning experience
- Linguistic variation
- Linguistic complexity
- Computer assisted language learning
- Language corpora
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Dive into the research topics of 'La resistenza dei tratti intonativi nellacquisizione dellitaliano da parte di parlanti anglo celti'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.Activities
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Prosody - Italian Varieties & Foreign Language Acquisition
Nicora, F. (Participant), Gili Fivela, B. (Participant) & Avesani, C. (Other)
6 Sept 2016 → 30 Dec 2026Activity: Other › Collaborations
Prizes
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Travel Bursary College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies
Nicora, F. (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Honorary award
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