Prosodic and Rhythmic Aspects of L2 Acquisition

The Case of Italian

• Author(s): Anna De Meo,
• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Pages: 345
• ISBN_10: 1443846856
  ISBN_13: 9781443846851
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General ,

Description:... In recent years, prosodic competence has become increasingly important in second language acquisition studies, as it is a crucial element in the identification of non-native pronunciation and message understanding. This volume is the first attempt to provide a survey of interlanguage prosody research in L2 Italian. It begins with an overview of the possible approaches to the study of rhythmic-prosodic skills acquisition in an L2. The second part of the book emphasizes the relationship between the mother tongue and a second language, and investigates the presence of transfer in prosody interlanguage development. The third part illustrates prosody’s role in the interpretation of pragmatic meaning in native-non-native interaction, and its influence on message persuasiveness. And in the fourth part, technology meets prosody in the areas of second language teaching and speech synthesis.