Abstract:This article is aimed at reviewing the different accounts for speech rhythm in the languages of the world. It addresses three main aspects in the literature on rhythm based on an impressionistic description, on a phonological explanation, and on the implementation of metrics to measure speech quantitatively. Some relevant studies on L1…
Abstract:The aim of this work is to identify the difficulties that Spanish learners of English may have when confronted with the L2 intonation. The different tone choices made by native speakers of Spanish in North Patagonia, Argentina, are analysed in the light of the Autosegmental-Metrical framework (LADD, 1996) and the Relevance Theory (SPERBER…