First and second language prosody: A study on speech production, perception and pragmatic features

• M. Dolores Ramírez-Verdugo ^[1] ; Raúl Jiménez Vilches ^[1] ; Beatriz Rodríguez Merchán ^[1] ; Berit Aronsson ^[2]
  1. [1] Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

     Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

     Madrid, España

     
  2. [2] University of Umeå
• Localización: Tendencias actuales en fonética experimental: cruce de disciplinas en el centenario del "Manual de Pronunciación Española" (Tomás Navarro Tomás) : [CIFE 2017 : VII Congreso Internacional de Fonética Experimental, Madrid 22-24/11/17] / coord. por Victoria Marrero Aguiar, Eva Estebas Vilaplana; Silvia Carmen Barreiro Bilbao (col.), Juan María Garrido Almiñana (col.), María Beatriz Pérez Cabello de Alba (col.), Nuria Polo Cano (col.), 2017, ISBN 978-84-697-7855-5, págs. 268-270
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this seminar we explore the prosody of first and second languages and their interface with pragmatics and spoken discourse features in English, Spanish and Swedish. Speech prosodic features involve multiple and complex acoustic and perceptual physical parameters that become crucial in spoken communication. However, prosody is not only the physical manifestation of speech. It is an important organizing principle influencing not only the expression of attitude and emotion but also the interpersonal and textual metafunctions. A language prosody has a powerful role to create relevance to both the message and the social and linguistic context. Therefore, the relationship between prosody and discourse is central to the understanding and interpretation of speech and its pragmatic meaning (cf. Johns-Lewis, 1986; Pierrehumbert and Hirschberg, 1990; Couper-Kühlen and Selting, 1996; Brazil, 1997; Heritage, 1997; Wichmann, 2000; Ramírez-Verdugo, 2008). Given its importance, it should be a key competence when teaching and learning a second language.