Prosody and Language in Contact: L2 Acquisition, Attrition and Languages in Multilingual Situations (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

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 Porteno 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.