PC-phonetics: A help or a strain for the philologist?

T h e title is an EITHER OR question . T h e p ap e r w ill p robab ly reveal th a t the an sw er m u st be BOTH -A N D . In th is p ap er a report w ill be g iven o f th e w ork w ith the p ro jec t ‘N orw eg ian le a rn e rs ’ p rob lem s w ith E ng lish prosody . N orw eg ian -E ng lish i n t o n a t i o n T h e focus w ill b e o n h in d ran ces m et w ith , w hen chang ing from an auditive to an acoustic analysis o f in tonation , a t the sam e tim e as there w ill be an attem pt to show how m o d em research can be a h e lp to overcom e d ifficu lties. F in a lly , resu lts arrived at h n m a de ta iled study o f th e use o f p itch range b y W estern N o rw eg ian s w ill be p resen ted and com pared w ith o th er studies. A n auditive phonetic e rro r analysis o f the in tona tion o f N orw eg ian studen ts o f E ng lish w as started som e years ago. T h e m ateria l used w as a selec tion o f read ings, consisting o f a 3 -m inu tes ’ d iagnostic tes t fo r 1st term students, co llected at E nge lsk institu tt, U n iversite te t i B ergen , from 1977 to 1989.