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Learner Intonation -- A Pilot Study.
Backman, Nancy – 1977
This study is concerned with problems in language learners' intonation of English. Ten intonation problems were found in the learner speech of two adult Spanish-speaking males: (1) range of pitch, (2) initial rise, (3) final fall, (4) rise to final stressed syllable, (5) placement of prominence, (6) final rise for questions, (7) total question…
Descriptors: Adults, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Interference (Language)