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ERIC Number: ED579972
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 5
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1877-0428
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Teaching Sentential Intonation through Proverbs
Yurtbasi, Metin
Online Submission, Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences v46 p4334-4338 2012
Suprasegmental elements such as "stress," "pitch," "juncture" and "linkers" are language universals that are uttered naturally in the mother tongue without prior training but need to be learned systematically in the target language. Among other techniques of "sentential pronunciation teaching" to second language (L2) students, exercises with proverbs in the target language can be utilized effectively to acquire natural rhythm and articulation. By addressing a natural interest in traditional wisdom and common sense, proverbs in the target language benefit students with their grammatical and lexical importance and can be used to produce acceptable pronunciation and intonation in the new language. Going that one step further from word stress to sentential intonation by working on broad transcriptions, pronunciation teachers may produce a crystal pronunciation contributing to better communication. Keywords: primary stress, secondary stress, sentential intonation, pitch, juncture.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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