Speech Rhythm in Learner and Second Language Varieties of English (Hardcover)

Robert Fuchs

ISBN 10: 9811989397 / ISBN 13: 9789811989391

Verlag: Springer Verlag, Singapore, Singapore, 2023

Beschreibung

Hardcover. This book presents cutting-edge research on the production and perception of speech rhythm by speakers of English in countries where it is used as a foreign language or an institutionalised second language (also sometimes known as the Expanding and Outer Circles). It contributes to a better understanding of speech rhythm, which has long been recognised as an important supra-segmental category of speech, focusing on its relevance in World Englishes, Second Language Acquisition and learner varieties of English, as well as the sociolinguistic and perceptual significance of this phonological variable. This book presents cutting-edge research on the production and perception of speech rhythm by speakers of English in countries where it is used as a foreign language or an institutionalised second language (also sometimes known as the Expanding and Outer Circles). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9789811989391

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Speech Rhythm in Learner and Second Language Varieties of English (Hardcover)
• Verlag: Springer Verlag, Singapore, Singapore
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 9811989397
• ISBN-13: 9789811989391
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: new

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Inhaltsangabe

This book presents cutting-edge research on the production and perception of speech rhythm by speakers of English in countries where it is used as a foreign language or an institutionalised second language (also sometimes known as the Expanding and Outer Circles). It contributes to a better understanding of speech rhythm, which has long been recognised as an important supra-segmental category of speech, focusing on its relevance in World Englishes, Second Language Acquisition and learner varieties of English, as well as the sociolinguistic and perceptual significance of this phonological variable.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr. Robert Fuchs is an Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He has previously held positions in Hong Kong and at the Universities of Münster and Augsburg, Germany. His research focuses on acoustic phonetics and laboratory phonology, corpus linguistics, corpus-assisted discourse analysis, varieties of English and learner English. In 2016, he was awarded the Richard M. Hogg Prize by the International Society for the Linguistics of English.