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Prosody and Language in Contact

L2 Acquisition, Attrition and Languages in Multilingual Situations

  • Integrates contributions from two distinct areas dealing with languages in contact that are always treated separately: L2 acquisition and description of language varieties developed in multilingual settings
  • Offers two very interesting chapters to people that wish to work on language in contact and L2 acquisition
  • Deals with prosody in contact situations while integrating studies in phonetics and in phonology, in production and in perception
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics (PRPHPH)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction

    • Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie, Sophie Herment, Mathieu Avanzi
    Pages 1-4
  3. Language varieties and contact situations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
    2. The Question Intonation of Malay Speakers of English

      • Ulrike Gut, Stefanie Pillai
      Pages 51-70
    3. Prosody in Language Contact: Occitan and French

      • Rafèu Sichel-Bazin, Carolin Buthke, Trudel Meisenburg
      Pages 71-99
    4. Falling Yes/No Questions in Corsican French and Corsican: Evidence for a Prosodic Transfer

      • Philippe Boula de Mareüil, Albert Rilliard, Iryna Lehka-Lemarchand, Paolo Mairano, Jean-Pierre Lai
      Pages 101-122
  4. Attrition, L2 Acquisition, Bilingual Development, and Language in Contact

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
    2. The Acquisition of Question Intonation by Mexican Spanish Learners of French

      • Fabián Santiago, Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie
      Pages 243-270

About this book

This volume provides new insights into various issues on prosody in contact situations, contact referring here to  the 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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • CNRS & University Paris-Diderot, France

    Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie

  • University of Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland

    Mathieu Avanzi

  • Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France

    Sophie Herment

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Prosody and Language in Contact

  • Book Subtitle: L2 Acquisition, Attrition and Languages in Multilingual Situations

  • Editors: Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie, Mathieu Avanzi, Sophie Herment

  • Series Title: Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45168-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-45167-0Published: 19 March 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52538-8Published: 09 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-45168-7Published: 18 February 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2197-8700

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-8719

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 291

  • Number of Illustrations: 96 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Comparative Linguistics

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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