Article published in:
Languages and Cultures in Contrast and ComparisonEdited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González, J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Elsa M. González Álvarez
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 175] 2008
► pp. 327–354
Contrastive intonation and error analysis: Tonality and tonicity in the interlanguage of a group of Spanish learners of English
Francisco Gutiérrez Díez | Universidad de Murcia
This is an empirical study of intonation errors made by a group of Spanish learners of English in secondary education. Errors relate to the division of the speech chain into tone units and to onset and nucleus placement within the tone unit, and are classed into interference errors (i.e. those mediated by the learners’ native language) and developmental errors (the rest). I explain interference errors by reference to contrastive aspects of Spanish and English tonality (the division of speech into tone units), tonicity (intonation signalling of information focus) and onset placement. I refer to a strong relationship between rhythmicstress errors and intonation errors. The paper also refers to some institutional reasons behind the students’ low performance, and I suggest some pedagogical remedies to deal with the errors detected.
Published online: 26 June 2008
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.175.17die
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.175.17die
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