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

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.

Autorentext

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.

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