Intonation in discourse: English intonation as (mis)used by Czech speakers
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | This study presents the results of a research project of several years, inspired by the observation that many Czech speakers of English, despite their proficiency in other areas, will still speak it with a clearly discernible foreign accent. A hypothesis was formulated that this might be due to certain intonation patterns transferred from the mother tongue rather than incorrect articulation of individual sounds. The framework of the study is represented by the theory of functional sentence perspective which is concerned with the distribution of information as determined by all meaningful elements, from intonation to context. |
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