Prosody and Language in Contact: L2 Acquisition, Attrition and Languages in Multilingual Situations

295 Pages·2015·8.63 MB·English

by  Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie

Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics
Series Editors:
Daniel Hirst
CNRS Laboratoire Parole et Langage,
Aix-en-Provence
France
Qiuwu Ma
School of Foreign Languages
Tongji University
Shanghai
China
Hongwei Ding
School of Foreign Languages
Tongji University
Shanghai
China
The series will publish studies in the general area of Speech Prosody with a par-
ticular (but non-exclusive) focus on the importance of phonetics and phonology in
this field.
The topic of speech prosody is today a far larger area of research than is often
realised. The number of papers on the topic presented at large international confer-
ences such as Interspeech and ICPhS is considerable and regularly increasing.
The proposed book series would be the natural place to publish extended ver-
sions of papers presented at the Speech Prosody Conferences, in particular the
papers presented in Special Sessions at the conference.
This could potentially involve the publication of three or four volumes every
2 years ensuring a stable future for the book series. If such publications are pro-
duced fairly rapidly, they will in turn provide a strong incentive for the organisation
of other special sessions at future Speech Prosody conferences.
More information about this series at: http://www.springer.com/series/11951
Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie • Mathieu Avanzi
Sophie Herment
Editors
Prosody and Language
in Contact
L2 Acquisition, Attrition and Languages
in Multilingual Situations
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Editors
Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie Sophie Herment
CNRS & Université Paris-Diderot Aix-Marseille Université
France Aix-en-Provence
France
Mathieu Avanzi
Université de Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel
Switzerland
ISSN 2197-8700 ISSN 2197-8719 (electronic)
Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics
ISBN 978-3-662-45167-0 ISBN 978-3-662-45168-7 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-45168-7
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Preface
This volume originates from a special session entitled “Prosody and Language
in Contact” and organized by Mathieu Avanzi, Guri Bordal and Elisabeth Delais-
Roussarie. The session was held during the Speech Prosody 2012 Conference in
Shanghai. It differed from most workshops dedicated to research on language in
contact by the desire to bring together people working on second language acquisi-
tion, language attrition, multilingualism, and prosodic description of varieties of
languages spoken in contact situation (e.g. English spoken in Africa, French spoken
in Africa, etc.).
Like the special session, the volume tries to gather contributions from a large
variety of themes related to language in contact. The leading idea behind this is
twofold: (i) giving an overview of research done in the growing field of language
in contact; and (ii) showing that methods and research paradigms used in a given
thematic area (language acquisition, multilingualism, etc.) may be fruitful for other
areas.
To achieve this goal, we decided to open this volume to researchers who were
not present in Shanghai, but are recognized in the field. As a consequence, the con-
tributions collected here do not correspond to a selection of papers presented at
Shanghai, but should give an idea of the themes developed in this field.
This project could not come to an end without three sets of people: the con-
tributors who responded to our invitation, the reviewers and the team from Springer
Verlag. We would like to thank them all: Guri Bordal, Philippe Boula de Mareüil,
Bettina Braun, Caroline Buthke, Hongwei Ding, Robert Fuchs, Christoph Gabriel,
Ulrike Gut, Daniel Hirst, Rüdiger Hoffmann, Céline Horgues, Sun-Ah Jun, Elena
Kireva, Barbara Kühnert, Véronique Lacoste, Jean-Pierre Lai, Iryna Lehka-
Lemarchand, Yen-Hwei Lin, Joaquim Llisterri, Paolo Mairano, Trudel Meisenburg,
Ineke Mennen, Alexis Michaud, Stefanie Pillai, Brechtje Post, Pilar Prieto, Albert
Rillard, Fabian Santiago, Elaine Schmidt, Rafèu Sichel-Bazin, Chia-Hsin Yeh and
Sabine Zerbian.
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Contents
1 Introduction .............................................................................................. 1
Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie, Sophie Herment and Mathieu Avanzi
Part I Language varieties and contact situations
2 Markedness Considerations in L2 Prosodic Focus and
Givenness Marking .................................................................................... 7
Sabine Zerbian
3 T races of the Lexical Tone System of Sango
in Central African French ....................................................................... 29
Guri Bordal
4 The Question Intonation of Malay Speakers of English ....................... 51
Ulrike Gut and Stefanie Pillai
5 Prosody in Language Contact: Occitan and French ............................. 71
Rafèu Sichel-Bazin, Carolin Buthke and Trudel Meisenburg
6 Falling Yes/No Questions in Corsican French and Corsican:
Evidence for a Prosodic Transfer ......................................................... 101
Philippe Boula de Mareüil, Albert Rilliard, Iryna Lehka-Lemarchand,
Paolo Mairano and Jean-Pierre Lai
7 You’re Not from Around Here, Are You? ............................................... 123
Robert Fuchs
8 Rhythmic Properties of a Contact Variety: Comparing Read
and Semi-spontaneous Speech in Argentinean Porteño Spanish ......... 149
Elena Kireva and Christoph Gabriel
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Part II A ttrition, L2 Acquisition, Bilingual Development,
and Language in Contact
9 Beyond Segments: Towards a L2 Intonation Learning Theory ........... 171
Ineke Mennen
10 T onal Change Induced by Language Attrition
and Phonetic Similarity in Hai-lu Hakka ............................................ 189
Chia-Hsin Yeh and Yen-Hwei Lin
11 An Investigation of Prosodic Features in the German
Speech of Chinese Speakers................................................................... 221
Hongwei Ding and Rüdiger Hoffmann
12 T he Acquisition of Question Intonation by Mexican Spanish
Learners of French ................................................................................. 243
Fabián Santiago and Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie
13 Language Interaction in the Development of Speech
Rhythm in Simultaneous Bilinguals ..................................................... 271
Elaine Schmidt and Brechtje Post
Contributors
Mathieu Avanzi Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Guri Bordal MultiLing (CoE), ILN, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Philippe Boula de Mareüil LIMSI-CNRS, Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France
Carolin Buthke Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie UMR 7110-LLF (Laboratoire de Linguistique
Formelle), Université Paris-Diderot, Paris, France
Hongwei Ding School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
Shangai, China
Robert Fuchs Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
Christoph Gabriel Institute of Romance Studies, University of Hamburg,
Hamburg, Germany
Ulrike Gut Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
Sophie Herment UMR 7309-LPL (Laboratoire Parole et Langage), Aix-Marseille
Université, Aix-en-Provence, France
Rüdiger Hoffmann IAS, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Elena Kireva Institute of Romance Studies, University of Hamburg,
Hamburg, Germany
Jean-Pierre Lai Gipsa-Lab, Université de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Iryna Lehka-Lemarchand LIMSI-CNRS, Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France
Yen-Hwei Lin Department of Linguistics and Languages, Michigan State
University, East Lansing, MI, USA
Paolo Mairano Gipsa-Lab, Université de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Trudel Meisenburg Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
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x Contributors
Ineke Mennen School of Linguistics and English Language, University of Graz,
Austria
Stefanie Pillai University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Brechtje Post University of Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge, UK
Albert Rilliard LIMSI-CNRS, Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France
Fabián Santiago UMR 7110-LLF (Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle), Uni-
versité Paris-Diderot, Paris, France
Elaine Schmidt University of Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge, UK
Rafèu Sichel-Bazin Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany, and Universitat
Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Chia-Hsin Yeh Department of Linguistics and Languages, Michigan State
University, East Lansing, MI, USA
Sabine Zerbian Institute of Linguistics, English, University of Stuttgart,
Stuttgart, Germany