Non-Native Perception and Interpretation of English Intonation

This paper investigated the perception and interpretation of a sub-class of sentence intonation by some Nigerian users of English. In a test administered to one hundred and twenty third-year university students of English, they obtained 85.7% correct perception of changes in intonation but obtained...

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Main Author: Raphael O. Atoye
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nordic Africa Research Network 2005-03-01
Series:Nordic Journal of African Studies
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Online Access:https://www.njas.fi/njas/article/view/279