LINGUIST List 13.1027

Sun Apr 14 2002

Qs: Prosody/Portugese, Error Analysis/Phonology

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  • stu dent, topic-comment and their relationship to prosody in Portuguese.
  • antonio, error analysis (phonology)

    Message 1: topic-comment and their relationship to prosody in Portuguese.

     Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 21:51:57 +0000
    From: stu dent <student__00hotmail.com>
    Subject: topic-comment and their relationship to prosody in Portuguese.


    Dear all,

    I am a grad student in NY state trying hard to find information for an upcoming paper in an Intonational phonology (prosody) Course offered in French [to date I have studied Ladd (1999) and Rossi (1978-1999)]. Since Portuguese is my first language, the prof suggested I look at "th�me-propos" ("topic-comment") in Portuguese and what effect prosody had on that structure.

    The LLBA and MLA research I have done has led me to many articles on Mandarin and Arabic but nothing specific to Portuguese. The relevant citations I have found are in articles/journals I cannot access...alas! (Estudos Linguisticos 1999, etc.)

    I was, therefore, wondering if anyone out there could help shed some light on this matter for me. I would greatly appreciate any help I can get.

    Cheers, Greg

    Message 2: error analysis (phonology)

     Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 12:48:06 -0400
    From: antonio <antonio.sposatoUNI-BIELEFELD.DE>
    Subject: error analysis (phonology)


    I'm an italian student of English at the "Universitaet Bielefeld" (Germany). I am writing a paper about error analysis (with regard to phonology) related to adult students of English. I already collected some material about this issue, but need your help in finding a specific bibliography (or web-sites) about adult (exclusively) L2 acquisition, especially about the treatment of phonologic errors that adult may make when pronouncing English words.

    Thanks in advance.

    best regards Antonio Sposato