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Using Conversation Analysis to Study Prosodic Problems in a Child with Language Impairment
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Samuelsson, Christina – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2009
Prosody carries a lot of information relevant for our understanding of spoken messages. In addition, prosody plays an important role in signalling attitudes and emotions. Prosodic features also constitute an important resource that participants use to achieve mutual understanding in interaction. The aim of this study was to point to possible…
Descriptors: Intonation, Language Impairments, Testing, Language Tests
Prosodic Variation in Southern British English.
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Peppe, Sue; Maxim, Jane; Wells, Bill – Language and Speech, 2000
Cross-speaker variability in the use of prosodic features in intonation was investigated through analysis of adult speakers of English from London, England, using a new prosodic test battery (PEPS). PEPS is designed to elicit information about how speakers use prosodic features to realize different types of linguistic and communicative functions…
Descriptors: Adults, English, Foreign Countries, Intonation
Learning and Teaching Languages for Communication: Applied Linguistics Perspectives.
Brumfit, Christopher, Ed. – 1983
The papers include: "Applied Linguistics and Comunicative Language Teaching" (Christopher Brumfit); "Evaluation of the East Midlands Graded Assessment Feasibility Study" (Elaine S. Freedman); "Aspects of Standardisation within a Communicative Assessment Syllabus" (Nicola Lees); "Experimenting with…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Classroom Communication, Cognitive Style, Communicative Competence (Languages)