Intonational phrasing as a potential indicator for establishing prosodic learner profiles

• Autores: Évelyne Cauvin
• Localización: Twenty years of learner corpus research: looking back, moving ahead / Sylviane Granger (ed. lit.), Gaëtanelle Gilquin (ed. lit.), Fanny Meunier (ed. lit.), 2013, ISBN 978-2-87558-199-0, págs. 75-88
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Prosodic profiles have been extensively used in forensics and language pathology. However, they are rarely used in second language acquisition as yet. The aim of this paper is to show how prosody can be used to define learner profiles, possibly their learning styles and their different cognitive abilities. It is our claim that different segmentation modes of utterances define different prosodic learner profiles and we aim to characterise these. We will show that prosodic profiles of French learners of English can be drawn on the basis of phrasing and that a cluster of prosodic properties corroborates this typology. Our analysis is first based on read speech and the subsequent classifications on recorded interviews of the same speakers. It reveals the limitations in the assessment phonological criteria the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL) (Council of Europe 2001) advocates and makes a good case for reconsidering them.