Perspectives on Intonation: English, Finnish and English Spoken by Finns

by Juhani Toivanen

Overview

This work is a thorough investigation and comparison of intonational features of two varieties of English: the English spoken by speakers of educated Southern British English and the English spoken by native speakers of Finnish. The investigation is based on a large database and an exceptionally thorough acoustic analysis, and the discussion presents new perspectives on interlanguage intonation. The work also contains a very detailed review of contemporary theories and models of intonation. This book is intended for phoneticians and linguists, as well as teachers and students of English as a foreign language.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631371060
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	07/03/2001
Series:	Forum Linguisticum , #37
Pages:	530
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

The Author: Juhani Toivanen was born in 1967. He studied English, phonetics and linguistics and graduated from the University of Oulu in 1992. He obtained his Ph.D. in English philology from the University of Oulu in 1999. Juhani Toivanen is currently a lecturer in general and applied linguistics and phonetics at the University of Oulu.

Table of Contents

Contents: Phonetics – Applied linguistics – English Language Teaching – Intonation – Prosody – Interlanguage.