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Prosodic Transfer in Learner and Contact Varieties: Speech Rhythm and Intonation of Buenos Aires Spanish and L2 Castilian Spanish Produced by Italian Native Speakers
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Gabriel, Christoph; Kireva, Elena – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2014
A remarkable example of Spanish-Italian contact is the Spanish variety spoken in Buenos Aires (Porteño), which is said to be prosodically "Italianized" due to migration-induced contact. The change in Porteño prosody has been interpreted as a result of transfer from the first language (L1) that occurred when Italian immigrants learned…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Language Rhythm, Intonation, Second Language Learning
Teaching and Learning Italian Grammar: The Case of the Distribution of /il/ and /lo/.
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Nikiema, Emmanuel – Italica, 2000
Argues for the introduction of the syllable in the teaching and learning of Italian and to show that using a structural representation of the syllable can enlighten facts about the distribution of the definite masculine markers "il" and "lo," as well as other Italian morphemes. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Grammar, Italian, Morphemes, Second Language Instruction
L'elaboration du test de langue francaise pour les Forces Armees Italiennes, d'apres une theorie nouvelle de la syllabe (Discussion of a French Test for the Italian Armed Forces Based on a New Theory of Syllables)
Arcaini, Enrico; And Others – BILC Bulletin, 1971
Advances the theory that the syllables internal structure and laws governing its productivity permit a new perspective of the contrastive analysis of the Italian and French systems. (DS)
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Contrastive Linguistics, French, Italian
Stress Levels in Italian and English: Some Similarities and Differences
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d'Eugenio, Antonio – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1975
Both Italian and English have four degrees of stress: emphatic, main, secondary and weak. This paper outlines some similarities, then reviews differences between the languages that can cause difficulties in learning the second language. (CHK)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Contrastive Linguistics, English, Intonation