Intonation and prosody in foreign languages. Presentation of the invited Editors

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Keywords:

intonation, prosody, foreign language

Abstract

This is the presentation of the thematic section of the 34th issue of Revista Nebrija.

Author Biographies

Empar Devis, Universidad de Barcelona

Degree in Catalan and Italian Philology from the University of Valencia and PhD in Linguistics from the University of Pisa. Professor of Catalan Language and Literature and Spanish Language at the Universities of Bologna and Venice from 2001 to 2010. Currently, Professor of Language and Literature Didactics at the University of Barcelona and member of the GREP (Grup de Recerca en Entonació i Parla). Her research focuses on the analysis of the prosodic interlanguage of Spanish spoken by Italians and on the melodic analysis of the (dis)politeness of colloquial peninsular Spanish and Catalan, and its didactic applications as LE.

José Torregrosa Azor, University of Barcelona

He holds a degree in Anglo-Germanic Philology and is an assistant professor at the Department of Linguistic and Literary Education of the Faculty of Education of the University of Barcelona. He teaches in different subjects of the Degree of Primary Education Teacher, in the double Degree of Early Childhood and Primary Education Teacher, and in the Research Master in Language and Literature Didactics. She is a member of the Institute for Research in Education of the University of Barcelona (IRE UB) and of the Research Group on Intonation and Speech (GREP), where she collaborates in the development of different scientific projects related to the melodic and prosodic analysis of spontaneous speech. His research interests also include the multisystemic analysis of speech, in which he investigates the relationship between language, prosody and coexpressive gestures.

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2023-04-17

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Devis, E., & Torregrosa Azor, J. (2023). Intonation and prosody in foreign languages. Presentation of the invited Editors. Nebrija Journal of Applied Linguistics to Language Teaching, 17(34), 9–16. Retrieved from https://revistas.nebrija.com/revista-linguistica/article/view/530

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 34 (2023): Spring 23

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Presentation by the invited editor

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