Universal or Diverse Paths to English Phonology

Universal or Diverse Paths to English Phonology
Author: Ulrike Gut
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2015-03-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110394588

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 on insights from all three disciplines.

Universal or Diverse Paths to English Phonology

Universal or Diverse Paths to English Phonology
Author: Ulrike Gut
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2015-03-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110346087

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 on insights from all three disciplines.

Intelligibility, Oral Communication, and the Teaching of Pronunciation

Intelligibility, Oral Communication, and the Teaching of Pronunciation
Author: John M. Levis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2018-10-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108265626

A proper understanding of intelligibility is at the heart of effective pronunciation teaching, and with it, successful teaching of speaking and listening. Far from being an optional 'add-it-on-if-we-have-time' language feature, pronunciation is essential because of its tremendous impact on speech intelligibility. Pronunciation dramatically affects the ability of language learners to make themselves understood and to understand the speech of others. But not all elements of pronunciation are equally important. Some affect intelligibility a great deal, while others do not. With a strong emphasis on classroom practice and how pronunciation teaching can be more effectively approached in different teaching contexts, this book provides an important resource for pronunciation researchers, with a distinctly practical focus. It shows how intelligibility research informs pronunciation teaching within communicative classrooms, enabling language teachers to incorporate intelligibility findings into their teaching. Professionals interested in oral communication, pronunciation, and speech perception will find the book fascinating.

English Pronunciation Instruction

English Pronunciation Instruction
Author: Anastazija Kirkova-Naskova
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2021-10-13
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9027259070

English Pronunciation Instruction: Research-based insights presents recent research on L2 English pronunciation including pedagogical implications and applications, and seeks to bridge the gulf between pronunciation research and teaching practice. The volume’s 15 chapters cover a range of aspects that are central to pronunciation teaching, including the teaching of different segmental and suprasegmental features, teachers’ and learners’ views and practices, types and sources of learners’ errors, feedback and assessment, tools and strategies for pronunciation instruction, reactions towards accented speech, as well as the connection between research and teaching. Chapters offer a fully developed section on pedagogical implications with insightful suggestions for classroom instruction. This format and the variety of topics will be informative for researchers, language teachers, and students interested in English pronunciation, as it explores the diverse challenges learners of different L1 backgrounds face, and also provides research-informed techniques and recommendations on how to cope with them.

Phonetics and Phonology in Multilingual Language Development

Phonetics and Phonology in Multilingual Language Development
Author: Ulrike Gut
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2023-08-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108998712

This Element focuses on phonetic and phonological development in multilinguals and presents a novel methodological approach to it within Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST). We show how phonetic and phonological development is feature-dependent and inter-connected and how learning experience affects the process.

Theoretical and Practical Developments in English Speech Assessment, Research, and Training

Theoretical and Practical Developments in English Speech Assessment, Research, and Training
Author: Veronica G. Sardegna
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2022-06-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3030982181

This edited book presents and discusses theoretical, practical, and research developments in English pronunciation in order to establish evidence-based directions and recommendations for best practices in English speech assessment, research, and training. It features leading pronunciation experts from diverse contexts who share cutting-edge research and valuable insights. The collection consists of six parts. Part 1 introduces the aims, focus, and structure of the book, and describes its intended audience. Part 2 reviews, provides empirical evidence, and offers critical analyses guiding different aspects of English speech assessment. Parts 3 and 4 report empirical findings and research perspectives on the perception and production of English speech. Part 5 shares current practices in phonetic training and their effect on learners and listeners. Part 6 presents theoretical perspectives on the acquisition of phonology in multilinguals.

Manual of Romance Phonetics and Phonology

Manual of Romance Phonetics and Phonology
Author: Christoph Gabriel
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 989
Release: 2021-11-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110550288

This handbook is structured in two parts: it provides, on the one hand, a comprehensive (synchronic) overview of the phonetics and phonology (including prosody) of a breadth of Romance languages and focuses, on the other hand, on central topics of research in Romance segmental and suprasegmental phonology, including comparative and diachronic perspectives. Phonetics and phonology have always been a core discipline in Romance linguistics: the wide synchronic variety of languages and dialects derived from spoken Latin is extensively explored in numerous corpus and atlas projects, and for quite a few of these varieties there is also more or less ample documentation of at least some of their diachronic stages. This rich empirical database offers excellent testing grounds for different theoretical approaches and allows for substantial insights into phonological structuring as well as into (incipient, ongoing, or concluded) processes of phonological change. The volume can be read both as a state-of-the-art report of research in the field and as a manual of Romance languages with special emphasis on the key topics of phonetics and phonology.

The Cambridge Handbook of Third Language Acquisition

The Cambridge Handbook of Third Language Acquisition
Author: Jennifer Cabrelli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1009
Release: 2023-07-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108962742

In our increasingly multilingual modern world, understanding how languages beyond the first are acquired and processed at a brain level is essential to design evidence-based teaching, clinical interventions and language policy. Written by a team of world-leading experts in a wide range of disciplines within cognitive science, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the study of third (and more) language acquisition and processing. It features 30 approachable chapters covering topics such as multilingual language acquisition, education, language maintenance and language loss, multilingual code-switching, ageing in the multilingual brain, and many more. Each chapter provides an accessible overview of the state of the art in its topic, while offering comprehensive access to the specialized literature, through carefully curated citations. It also serves as a methodological resource for researchers in the field, offering chapters on methods such as case studies, corpora, artificial language systems or statistical modelling of multilingual data.

Advances in the Investigation of L3 Phonological Acquisition

Advances in the Investigation of L3 Phonological Acquisition
Author: Magdalena Wrembel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2018-10-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1351373412

This book aims to bridge the gap in investigations into the acquisition of phonology from a multilingual perspective. In order to fully understand this process, the editors present state of the art research into third language (L3) phonology as well as future considerations for this field. The individual contributions address limitations apparent in current literature, in terms of methodology and scope, while offering innovative solutions in the study of conceptualization, design and data analysis, and novel application of theoretical frameworks to L3 phonology. The contributions consist of a number of original studies which attempt to address vital research questions regarding a bilingual advantage for subsequent phonological acquisition, the variables that drive phonological transfer at the onset of third language acquisition, the L3 developmental path, and how L3 phonological acquisition affects existing systems. The empirical and theoretical strides made in the study of L3 phonology, provided in this volume, confirm that it is a promising area of inquiry with a growing potential to provide novel insights into the linguistic and cognitive underpinnings of language acquisition. This book was originally published as a special issue of International Journal of Multilingualism.

Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English

Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English
Author: Robert Fuchs
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2015-09-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3662478188

This book addresses the question whether Educated Indian English is more syllable-timed than British English from two standpoints: production and perception. Many post-colonial varieties of English, which are mostly spoken as a second language in countries such as India, Nigeria and the Philippines, are thought to have a syllable-timed rhythm, whereas first language varieties such as British English are characterized as being stress-timed. While previous studies mostly relied on a single acoustic correlate of speech rhythm, usually duration, the author proposes a multidimensional approach to the production of speech rhythm that takes into account various acoustic correlates. The results reveal that the two varieties differ with regard to a number of dimensions, such as duration, sonority, intensity, loudness, pitch and glottal stop insertion. The second part of the study addresses the question whether the difference in speech rhythm between Indian and British English is perceptually relevant, based on intelligibility and dialect discrimination experiments. The results reveal that speakers generally find the rhythm of their own variety more intelligible and that listeners can identify which variety a speaker is using on the basis of differences in speech rhythm.