Non-Native Prosody : : Phonetic Description and Teaching Practice / / ed. by Jürgen Trouvain, Ulrike Gut.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Barry, William J.,; Barry, William,; Baumann, Stefan,; Dommelen, Wim,; Grice, Martine,; Gut, Ulrike,; Hirschfeld, Ulla,; Jilka, Matthias,; Mehlhorn, Grit,; Mennen, Ineke,; Missaglia, Federica,; Trouvain, Jürgen,; Wrembel, Magdalena,
• HerausgeberIn: Gut, Ulrike,; Trouvain, Jürgen,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 186
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 p.)

Non-Native Prosody: Phonetic Description and Teaching Practice is a response to the increasing interest in the field of prosody in second language acquisition and teaching. The volume presents an overview of the state of the art in second language prosody learning and teaching and brings together linguistic research on the description and modelling of non-native prosodic structures with L2 teaching methods and practices. The first part comprises descriptions of non-native prosodic structures (including intonation, stress and speech rhythm) as well as methodological considerations of research in second language acquisition written by experts in the field. These overviews of current theoretical models and results from empirical studies are presented in a format accessible to language teachers. In the second part, some of the leading teaching practitioners and developers of phonological learning materials present a variety of methods and exercises in the area of prosody. The accompanying audio examples make a useful addition illustrating the descriptions and exercises for various target and source languages. They could be found under "additional material" on this webpage (previously on the CD sold with the book).

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Bridging research on phonetic descriptions with -- knowledge from teaching practice – The case of prosody in non-native -- speech -- Part 1: Phonetic descriptions -- An introduction to intonation – functions and -- models -- Phonological and phonetic influences in non-native -- intonation -- Different manifestations and perceptions of foreign -- accent in intonation -- Rhythm as an L2 problem: How prosodic is -- it? -- Temporal patterns in Norwegian as L2 -- Learner corpora in second language prosody research -- and teaching -- Part 2: Teaching practice -- Teaching prosody in German as foreign -- language -- Metacompetence-based approach to the teaching of L2 -- prosody: practical implications -- Individual pronunciation coaching and -- prosody -- Prosodic training for adult Italian learners of -- German: the Contrastive Prosody Method -- Backmatter