Proposed course
Prosody and Intonation in the Teaching of Foreign Languages (English, French and
Spanish) in the Brazilian context.
Instructor: Dr. Juan Manuel Sosa
Simon Fraser University and Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (CNPq)
General description
This course is intended for Brazilian instructors and learners of foreign languages such as English,
French and Spanish and will establish the most relevant prosodic features of these languages (and
their main varieties), in contrast with Brazilian Portuguese. The focus will be on those aspects that
convey semantic and pragmatic meanings as well as speaker’s attitude, such as intonational
structure, melodic patterns and tone of voice.
The course is practical in nature and will consist of 12 hours of contact. Some topics to be
discussed include the modal distinction between statements and questions in those languages, the
analysis and description of recurrent tunes and contours in greetings and dialogue, and the notation
systems that have been proposed from a theoretical as well as a pedagogical perspective. The
course will be given in Portuguese.
Course outline
· Day 1: General introduction. The intonation of Brazilian Portuguese
· Day 2: The intonation of English
· Day 3: The intonation of French
· Day 4: The intonation of Spanish. General conclusions.
References
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1-14.
Hedberg, Nancy, Juan M. Sosa and Lorna Fadden. 2004. "Meanings and Configurations of
Questions in English". Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2004, Nara, Japan.
Ladd, D. Robert. 2008. Intonational Phonology. Second Edition. Cambridge University Press.
Martin, Philippe. 1999. L'intonation du Français et du Portugais: phonetique et phonologie.
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