Prosodic transfer in Black South African English

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Swerts, Marc ^a   Zerbian, Sabine ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Prosodic boundary marking; Prosodic focus marking; Second language prosody

Indexed keywords

BILINGUALS; NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS; NOUN PHRASE; PHRASE BOUNDARY; PROSODIC BOUNDARY; PROSODIC BOUNDARY MARKING; PROSODIC FOCUS MARKING; PROSODICS; SECOND LANGUAGE; SECOND LANGUAGE PROSODY;

EID: 85089072833     PISSN: 23332042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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