English intonation as phonological structure

A Phonological Model of French Intonation

Variation in Jewish English intonation

Intonation in Jewish English may have had influence from Yiddish (Weinreich 1956; Benor 2004). However, previous studies of Jewish English intonation have been either nonsystematic or not explicitly focused on variation according to exposure to Yiddish, so the current case for Yiddish substrate influence is weak. This study aims to give a more formal description of one particular phrase-final r...

Gender Difference in English Intonation

This paper discusses the gender difference in the English intonation patterns used by native speakers of English from sociophonetic and functional perspectives with a preliminary corpus-based experimental study. The main purpose of this research is to dig out the possible reasons of gender difference in intonation usage with social and cultural impacts. The research isolates gender as the major...

Intonation Patterns in English Tag Questions of Japanese Speakers of English as a Second Language

Ten female native speakers of American English (NS) and ten Japanese females who speak English as a second language (NNS) were recorded reading a text containing emphatically-assertive tag questions. Evidence was sought to determine whether or not native speakers can correctly identify these utterances as produced by native or non-native speakers on the basis of intonation alone. The tag questi...

Focus Realization in Japanese English and Korean English Intonation