Prosody and Language in Contact L2 Acquisition, Attrition and Languages in Multilingual Situations - Delais-Roussarie, Elisabeth; Avanzi, Mathieu; Herment, Sophie (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2015)
Introduction -- Language varieties and Contact situations -- Markedness considerations in L2 prosodic focus and givenness marking -- Traces of the lexical tone system of Sango in Central African French -- The question intonation of Malay speakers of English -- Prosody in language contact: Occitan and French -- Falling yes/no questions in Corsican French and Corsican: evidence for a prosodic transfer -- You're not from around here, are you? -- Rhythmic properties of a contact variety: Comparing read and semi-spontaneous speech in Argentinean Porteño Spanish -- Attrition, L2 acquisition, bilingual development and languages in contact -- Beyond segments: towards a L2 intonation learning theory -- Tonal Change Induced by Language Attrition and Phonetic Similarity in Hai-lu Hakka -- An Investigation of Prosodic Features in the German Speech of Chinese Speakers -- The Acquisition of Question Intonation by Mexican Spanish Learners of French -- Language interaction in the development of speech rhythm in simultaneous bilinguals.
Keywords: Linguistics; Comparative linguistics