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Intonation Characteristics of Emphatic Speech: the Problem of Spanish and English Language Interference |
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Makarova E.N. Candidate of Philology, associate professor, makarovayn@mail.ru |
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World Philology |
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81’34 |
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The article discusses the peculiarities of emphatic accent characteristics in Spanish and
English through sentence nucleus shifts from the final position in the phrase to adverb-intensifiers.
Experimental findings prove the use of sentence nucleus shifts to express emphasis in Spanish.
The phonetic experiment results reveal the interference of Mexican speakers’ mother tongue on the
choice of their intonation nucleus in English emphatic speech.
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| Key words |
emphatic stress, intonation nucleus, cross-language interference, adverb-intensifier. |
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| Full article | Intonation Characteristics of Emphatic Speech: the Problem of Spanish and English Language Interference |
