Syllabus
notions of information structure focus-background given-new topic-comment prosody, intonation word stress, phrase stress, utterance-level stress phonetic correlates of phonological stress/accent deaccenting boundary tones
ToBI prosodic encoding of focus new focus contrastive focus prosodic encoding of givenness discourse givenness other types of givenness prosodic encoding of topic plain topic contrastive topic
Annotation
The workshop introduces the basics of language acquisition research and it describes how experimental and corpus research may be employed in the study of language learning. The course provides evidence for and against the use of statistical skills in language learning, and it covers the theories of cognition that more rely on this competence.
Using the lenses of corpus analysis and experimental research, the workshop will describe the acquisition and use of linguistic units of varying size: phonemes, words, sentences, discourse. The workshop will focus particularly on the acquisition of English (as L1 and L2).
