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Cross‐Linguistic Influence in Intonation: French/Japanese and French/English *
Author(s) -
Lepetit Daniel
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
language learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.882
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1467-9922
pISSN - 0023-8333
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-1770.1989.tb00598.x
Subject(s) - intonation (linguistics) , linguistics , psychology , phonetics , philosophy
This article reports the findings of research on the acquisition of French intonation by native speakers of Canadian English and Japanese. Intonation is limited, in this study, to the domain of phonosyntax where intonational cues are correlated with syntactical units. Results of the study show that cross‐linguistic influence in intonation is of central importance in the learner's acquisition of the target system and that one should not underestimate the degree of complexity of that influence. The study shows that it is relevant to differentiate between cross‐linguistic influence of intonational phonological rules and cross‐linguistic influence of phonetic characteristics, and that in both aspects a cross‐linguistic influence is at work.