This paper investigates the phonetic and social organisation of laughter in spoken conversation. Building on conversation analytic research that highlights laughter as a complex interactional achievement, we examine the phonetic details of laughter in recordings of English, Spanish, and… read more
Prosody, with its core elements the melody and timing of speech, is one of the aspects learners often struggle with when learning foreign languages in its spoken form. The teaching of prosody is however still largely overlooked — even though prosodic knowledge would help to improve learners’… read more
Fluency has often been ignored in speech prosody research, including in research on prosody of a second language (L2). However, a broader view on L2 sentence prosody would be beneficial to the construction of theories concerning the acquisition of L2 prosody and applications such as assessments… read more