Bilingual Acquisition of Intonation.

Bilingual Acquisition of Intonation.

This book investigates the acquisition of intonation by German/English bilingual children. Intonation is analysed both auditorily and instrumentally, and the transcription system of the British Tradition and the ToBI system in the autosegmental-metrical approach of intonation analysis are employed....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gut, Ulrike
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
German
Published: De Gruyter, 2000.
Series:Linguistische Arbeiten.
Subjects:
Language acquisition.
Intonation (Phonetics)
Bilingualism in children.
German language > Acquisition.
English language > Acquisition.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notational Conventions
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Bilingual acquisition of intonation
  • 3. Bilingual acquisition of nucleus placement
  • 4. Bilingual acquisition of the system of pitch
  • 5. Bilingual acquisition of intonational phrasing
  • 6. The study
  • research questions, method and analysis
  • 7. Results
  • 8. The acquisition of nucleus placement
  • 9. The acquisition of the system of pitch
  • 10. The acquisition of intonational phrasing
  • 11. Summary and discussion
  • 12. References

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