Publications

Publication details [#27049]

Wennerstrom, Ann. 1994. Intonational meaning in English discourse: A study of non-native speakers. Applied Linguistics 15 (4) : 399–420.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

intonation | meaning | second language acquisition | speaker

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0142-6001

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This study analyzes and compares native and non-native English speakers' use of intonation to signal discursive meaning, measuring pitch and phrase accents and boundary and paratones as prescribed by Pierrehumbert and Hirschberg's model (1990). The non-native English speakers belong to Spanish, Japanese and Thai language groups.