Prosody and Language in Contact: L2 Acquisition, Attrition and Languages in Multilingual Situations (Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics)

This volume provides new insights into various issues on ℗ℓprosody in contact situations, contact referring here to ℗ℓthe L2 acquisition process as well as to situations where two language systems may co-exist. A wide array of phenomena are dealt with (prosodic description of linguistic systems in contact situations, analysis of prosodic changes, language development processes, etc.), and the results obtained may give an indication of what is more or less stable in phonological and prosodic systems. In addition, the selected papers clearly show how languages may have influenced or may have been influenced by other language varieties (in multilingual situations where different languages are in constant contact with one another, but also in the process of L2 acquisition). Unlike previous volumes on related topics, which focus in general either on L2 acquisition or on the description and analyses of different varieties of a given language, this volume considers both topics in parallel, allowing comparison and discussion of the results, which may shed new light on more far-reaching theoretical questions such as the role of markedness in prosody and the causes of prosodic changes This volume provides new insights into various issues on ℗lprosody in contact situations, contact referring here to ℗lthe L2 acquisition process as well as to situations where two language systems may co-exist. A wide array of phenomena are dealt with (prosodic description of linguistic systems in contact situations, analysis of prosodic changes, language development processes, etc.), and the results obtained may give an indication of what is more or less stable in phonological and prosodic systems. In addition, the selected papers clearly show how languages may have influenced or may have been influenced by other language varieties (in multilingual situations where different languages are in constant contact with one another, but also in the process of L2 acquisition). Unlike previous volumes on related topics, which focus in general either on L2 acquisition or on the description and analyses of different varieties of a given language, this volume considers both topics in parallel, allowing comparison and discussion of the results, which may shed new light on more far-reaching theoretical questions such as the role of markedness in prosody and the causes of prosodic changes Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction....Pages 1-4 Front Matter....Pages 5-5 Markedness Considerations in L2 Prosodic Focus and Givenness Marking....Pages 7-27 Traces of the Lexical Tone System of Sango in Central African French....Pages 29-49 The Question Intonation of Malay Speakers of English....Pages 51-70 Prosody in Language Contact: Occitan and French....Pages 71-99 Falling Yes/No Questions in Corsican French and Corsican: Evidence for a Prosodic Transfer....Pages 101-122 You’re Not from Around Here, Are You?....Pages 123-148 Rhythmic Properties of a Contact Variety: Comparing Read and Semi-spontaneous Speech in Argentinean Porteño Spanish....Pages 149-168 Front Matter....Pages 169-169 Beyond Segments: Towards a L2 Intonation Learning Theory....Pages 171-188 Tonal Change Induced by Language Attrition and Phonetic Similarity in Hai-lu Hakka....Pages 189-220 An Investigation of Prosodic Features in the German Speech of Chinese Speakers....Pages 221-241 The Acquisition of Question Intonation by Mexican Spanish Learners of French....Pages 243-270 Language Interaction in the Development of Speech Rhythm in Simultaneous Bilinguals....Pages 271-291 Preface ; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1; Introduction; References; Part I ; Language varieties and contact situations; Chapter-2; Markedness Considerations in L2 Prosodic Focus and Givenness Marking; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Markedness in Language Contact; 2.3 A Markedness-Based Approach to Sentence Accent; 2.4 An Extended Markedness Scale; 2.4.1 Typology of Sentence Prosody; 2.4.2 Decomposing Pragmatic Constraints on Sentence Prosody; 2.4.3 Extension of the Markedness Scale; 2.4.4 Summary; 2.5 Prosodic Marking of Focus and Givenness in Contact Varieties; 2.5.1 Case Studies; 2.6 Discussion The Question Intonation of Malay Speakers of English4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Question Intonation in English; 4.3 Method; 4.3.1 Participants and Procedure; 4.3.2 Data and Analysis; 4.4 Results; 4.5 Discussion; 4.6 Conclusion; 4.7 Acknowledgments ; 4.8 Appendix 1; 4.9 Appendix 2; References; Prosody in Language Contact: Occitan and French; Chapter-5; 5.1 Occitan-French Contact; 5.2 Theoretical Background for Occitan and French Prosody; 5.2.1 Accentuation; 5.2.2 Prosodic Phrasing; 5.2.3 Intonation; 5.3 Methodology; 5.3.1 Corpus; 5.3.2 Analysis; 5.3.2.1 Accentuation and Prosodic Phrasing 6.2.1 Corsican and Corsican French6.2.2 Prosodic Transfer; 6.3 Survey and Corpus; 6.3.1 Materials; 6.3.2 Selected Speakers and Sentences; 6.4 Prosodic Analysis of Corsican/French Questions and Statements; 6.4.1 Overall Observations and Procedure; 6.4.2 Questions; 6.4.3 Questions vs. Statements; 6.5 Perception Experiment 1: XAB Test; 6.5.1 Method; 6.5.2 Experimental Setup: Material and Protocol; 6.5.3 Listeners; 6.5.4 Results; 6.6 Experiment 2: Statement/Question Discrimination; 6.6.1 Experimental Setup; 6.6.2 Listeners; 6.6.3 Results; 6.7 Discussion and Conclusion; References 2.6.1 Further Predictions2.6.2 Directions for Further Research; 2.6.2.1 Language-External Factors; 2.6.2.2 Production Versus Perception; References; Traces of the Lexical Tone System of Sango in Central African French; Chapter-3; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Language Contact in Bangui; 3.2.1 Central African French (CAF); 3.2.2 Prosodic Systems of Reference French and Sango; 3.3 The Tonal System of Central African French; 3.3.1 Data; 3.3.2 Tonal Patterns; 3.3.3 The Prosodic Word and the Intonational Phrase; 3.4 Contact-Induced Prosodic Features; 3.5 Conclusion; References; Chapter-4 5.3.2.2 Intonation5.4 Results; 5.4.1.1 The Accentual Phrase: the Basic Unit for Accentuation in Gallo-Romance; 5.4.1 Prosodic Phrasing (Qualitative Analysis); 5.4.1.2 Internal Structure of the AP; 5.4.1.3 Grouping of APs Within the Utterance; 5.4.2 Accentuation (Quantitative Analysis); 5.4.3 Intonation; 5.4.3.1 Biased Statements; 5.4.3.2 Yes-No Questions; 5.4.3.3 Wh-Questions; 5.5 Conclusions; References; Chapter-6; Falling Yes/No Questions in Corsican French and Corsican: Evidence for a Prosodic Transfer; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Corsican, Corsican French and Prosodic Transfer