Investigating English pronunciation
Subtitle: trends and directions
By: edited by Jose A. Mompean, Universidad de Murcia, Spain ; Jonás Fouz-González, Universidad Católica de Murcia, Spain
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Baskingstoke Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137509420
Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology; Pronunciation by foreign speakers; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Speech; English language; Speech acts (Linguistics); Phonology; Pronunciation; Spoken English
Description: "Investigating English Pronunciation: Trends and Directions is a cutting-edge update on the latest research in the field of English pronunciation. The volume provides readers with fully-developed examples of the latest trends and research topics in English pronunciation from specialists in Europe, Asia, and the United States. These include, amongst others, segmental and suprasegmental features in L1 and L2 varieties of English, sociophonetic or sound-symbolic aspects of pronunciation, and applications such as English pronunciation teaching and learning. The contributions to the volume deal with original topics and make use of a wide variety of methods in researching English pronunciation, illustrating these through a series of selected case studies, and providing readers with a number of novel and motivating questions that will inspire further research"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. Introduction; Jose A. Mompean; title: PART I: IN AND OUT OF THE LAB/SPEECH IN CONTEXT; title: 2. Making Sense of Nonce Word Stress in English; Gabor Turcsan and Sophie Herment; title: 3. Why Some Things Are Better Done in Tandem; Ce;line Horgues and Sylwia Scheuer; title: 4. Mixed Accents: Scottish Children with English Parents; Sarah Thomas and James M. Scobbie; title: PART II: PERCEPTION OF L2 ACCENTED SPEECH; title: 5. Perceptions of Intelligibility and RTs: Accent-tolerant vs. Non-accent-tolerant Listeners; Andre;e Lepage and Darlene LaCharite;; title: 6. Non-native Accent and Listener Perceptions of Grammaticality; Alan S. Kennedy; title: PART: III - L2 PHONOLOGY AND ACQUISITION; title: 7. Research, Theory, and Practice in Second Language Phonology: A Review and Directions for the Future; Martha C. Pennington; title: 8. Training L1 French Learners to Perceive Prosodically Marked Focus in English; Mark Gray; title: 9. Tone Units as Indicators of L2 Fluency Development: Evidence from Native and Learner English; Pekka Lintunen, Pauliina Peltonen and Joshua Webb; title: 10. The Impact of L2 Proficiency on Vowel Training; Janice Wing Sze Wong; title: PART IV: PRONUNCIATION TEACHING; title: 11. Sound Symbolism and Pronunciation Teaching: A Preliminary Study; Pilar Mompen-Guillamn; title: 12. The English Pronunciation Teaching in Europe Survey: Factors Inside and Outside the Classroom; Alice Henderson, Lesley Curnick, Dan Frost, Alexander Kautzsch, Anastazija Kirkova-Naskova, David Levey, Elina Tergujeff and Ewa Waniek-Klimczak; title: PART V: TECHNOLOGY; title: 13. Designing Speech Perception Tasks with TP; Anabela Rato, Andre;ia Schurt Rauber, Denise Cristina Kluge and Giane Rodrigues dos Santos; title: 14. Trends and Directions in Computer-assisted Pronunciation Training; Jons Fouz-Gonzlez.