Год выпуска: 2013 Автор: Raya Kalaldeh Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 480 ISBN: 9783659461958
Описание
Drogheda is the main town in the North-East of Ireland, about 35 miles away from Dublin. It lies within the linguistic boundary zone separating the major Irish English (IrE) varieties: Northern IrE and Southern IrE. This book presents a detailed analysis of the variety’s segmental system and emphasises on its intonational aspects. Findings show that Drogheda English is a typical Southern IrE variety. Chapters 1-3 introduce background, literature, and methods of the study. Chapters 4-7 present findings of the variety’s: acoustic and auditory analysis of vowels and consonants; tonal patterns using a modified version of the ToBI labelling system; interrogative intonation, particularly as the tonal patterns in questions lack final rises; and peak alignment where the author proposes two kinds of alignment: intrinsic and extrinsic. Chapter 8 discusses implications of the findings. Dialectal studies provide insights on how systems of languages work.Intonational aspects of a dialect can be...
