EAN: 9789811319952

PROSODY PHONOLOGY AND PHONETICS SPANISH AND B...

This book contrasts variations in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation  using as a
reference for discussion the mainstream careful speech of news anchors at the national level or
the equivalent type of speech: a well-educated style that nonetheless sounds natural. Pursuing
an innovative approach  the book uses this view of language as a cornerstone to describe and
discuss other social and regional variants relative to that speaking register. It is aimed at
speakers of Spanish interested in learning Portuguese and speakers of Portuguese who want to
learn Spanish  as well as language specialists interested in bilingualism  heritage languages 
in the teaching of typologically similar languages in contrast  and readers with interest in
Phonetics and Phonology. The book employs a variety of innovative approaches  especially the
reinterpretation of some of the traditional concept in Phonetics  and the use of speech
prosodies and speech melodies  a user-friendly strategy to describe speech prosody in languages
and speech melody in music through musical notation.

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