35.1881, Books: L2 Spanish and Italian intonation: Pešková (2023)

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Date: 26-Jun-2024
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [sebastian.nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: L2 Spanish and Italian intonation: Pešková (2023)


Title: L2 Spanish and Italian intonation
Subtitle: Accounting for the different patterns displayed by L1 Czech
and German learners
Series Title: Open Romance Linguistics
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Language Science Press
                http://langsci-press.org
Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/384

Author: Andrea Pešková
eBook: ISBN: 978-3-96110-418-5 Pages: 387 Price: Europe EURO 0
Abstract:

The main aim of this book is to contribute to our understanding of the
acquisition of second language intonation, by comparing Czech learners
of Spanish with German learners of Spanish and Czech learners of
Italian. By means of a large production database, the study seeks to
uncover how L1-to-L2 intonational transfer works and what role
prosodic (dis)similarities between languages play. Contrary to most
previous research, the work presents an original multidirectional
cross-linguistic comparison and examines different types of sentence,
such as neutral and non-neutral statements, yes/no questions,
wh-questions, exclamatives and vocatives. The findings reveal positive
and negative transfer from L1 to L2, and the formation of mixed
patterns as well as native-like patterns, which are mainly constrained
by linguistic factors such as the type of sentence and the position of
the tonal event in the utterance. The results are discussed within
Mennen’s (2015) L2 Intonation Learning theory and lead to the
formulation of a Developmental L2 Intonation Hypothesis that makes
several generalizations to characterize interlanguage intonation. This
volume not only represents a step forward in the study of the
acquisition of L2 intonation in general but also offers valuable
findings that can be directly or indirectly applied in the classroom
and will hopefully inspire further research.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition

Subject Language(s): Italian (ita)
                     Spanish (spa)

Written In: English (eng)



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