English Intonation from a Dutch Point of View

Name: English Intonation from a Dutch Point of View
Brand: De Gruyter Mouton
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Nico Willems(Author)

De Gruyter Mouton (Publisher)

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Published on 6. October 2010

205 pages

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Intro
1 DROP YOUR FOREIGN ACCENT
1.0 Introduction
1.1 The importance of intonation in speech
1.2 Principles of an experimental-phonetic approach
1.3 Aims of this study
1.4 Brief outline of the study
2 FROM TUNES TO PERCEPTUALLY RELEVANT PITCH MOVEMENTS
2.0 Introduction
2.1 The British English school
2.2 The American English school
2.3 Two recent phonological approaches to intonation
2.4 The Dutch school
2.5 A final note on the notational systems
2.6 Contrastive English-Dutch intonation studies
2.7 Concluding remarks
3 FIRST EXPLORATIONS
3.0 Introduction
3.1 Characteristics of the production of a non-native pronunciation of English intonation by Dutch speakers: First experiment.
3.2 Discrimination of Dutch and English pitch contours: Second experiment
3.3 Concluding remarks
4 PERCEPTUAL TOLERANCES OF SOME PROPERTIES OF PITCH MOVEMENTS IN ENGLISH
4.0 Introduction
4.1 The experiment
4.2 Results
4.3 Conclusions
4.4 Discussion
5 A COMPARISON OF PITCH MOVEMENTS IN ENGLISH PRODUCED BY NATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH AND OF DUTCH
5.0 Introduction
5.1 Method
5.2 Results
5.3 Discussion
5.4 Summary and conclusions
6 A PERCEPTUAL EVALUATION OF DEVIATIONS IN PITCH
6.0 Introduction
6.1 First experiment: the perceptual relevance of nine deviations
6.2 Second experiment: a continued search for deviations
6.3 Third experiment: first attempts to evaluate 'duration'
6.4 General discussion
7 PRELIMINARIES TO A COURSE IN ENGLISH INTONATION
7.0 Introduction
7.1 Method
7.2 Results
7.3 Discussion
8 CONCLUDING CONSIDERATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR APPLICATIONS
8.0 Introduction
8.1 General discussion of the results
8.2 Viewing the aims of the study
8.3 Suggestions for further research
8.4 Testing the intonation course
8.5 Suggestions for applications
8.6 Some theoretical implications of a descriptive model
8.7 Some preliminary pronunciation precepts
Postscript
APPENDICES
Appendix A: survey of stylized pitch contours (3)
Appendix B: averaged data of pitch movement on tonic (3)
Appendix C: raw frequency values Brighton-Crawley (4)
Appendix D: scale valus Brighton-Crawley (4)
Appendix E: scale values combined groups (4)
Appendix F: dialogue used in the production test (5)
Appendix G: averaged values of production test (5)
Appendix H: scale values Brighton-Crawley (6)
Appendix I: scale values combined groups (6)
Appendix J: scale values second experiment (6)
Appendix K: frequency count second experiment (6)
Appendix L: survey of F0 curves of precepts test (7)
Appendix M: acceptability scores precepts test (7)
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