Universal or Diverse Paths to English Phonology /

Universal or Diverse Paths to English Phonology / / ed. by Ulrike Gut, Robert Fuchs, Eva-Maria Wunder.

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The book is concerned with the acquisition of English phonology, both segmental and suprasegmental, by learners of English as a second language, as a third language and by speakers of a postcolonial (“new”) variety of English. It focuses on the acquisition process and factors influencing it, based o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Altmann, Heidi,
Ayoola, Kehinde A.,
Deterding, David,
Fuchs, Robert,
Gabriel, Christoph,
Gut, Ulrike,
Kabak, Barış,
Kopečková, Romana,
Nagarajan, Hemalatha,
Pillai, Stefanie,
Soneye, Taiwo Olayemi,
Stahnke, Johanna,
Thulke, Jeanette,
Wrembel, Magdalena,
Wunder, Eva-Maria,
Zerbian, Sabine,
HerausgeberIn:
Fuchs, Robert,
Gut, Ulrike,
Wunder, Eva-Maria,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 86
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Physical Description:1 online resource (250 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The phonology of Brunei English: L2 English or emergent variety
  • 3. Rothicity in Malaysian English: The emergence of a new norm?
  • 4. Cross-linguistic influence in second vs. third language acquisition of phonology
  • 5. Differences in the perception of English vowel sounds by child L2 and L3 learners
  • 6. Loanword adaptation and second language acquisition: Convergence and divergence
  • 7. Onset consonant cluster realisation in Nigerian English: The emergence of an endogenous variety?
  • 8. Acquiring English and French speech rhythm in a multilingual classroom: A comparison with Asian Englishes
  • 9. A sonority-based account of speech rhythm in Chinese learners of English
  • 10. English word stress in L2 and postcolonial varieties: systematicity and variation
  • 11. Prosodic marking of focus in transitive sentences in varieties of South African English
  • 12. Epilogue: Universal or diverse paths to English phonology?
  • Index

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