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Beyond Segments: Towards a L2 Intonation Learning Theory
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“L2 proficiency has repeatedly been associated with greater phonological sensitivity, better phonology-pragmatics alignment, and reduced L1 interference (Bachman & Palmer, 2010;Mennen, 2015;Ortega & Wu, 2025).”
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“In phonological research, higher proficiency has been associated with more target-like production, greater perceptual sensitivity, and stronger integration of phonological and pragmatic information (Bachman & Palmer, 2010;Levis & Wichmann, 2015;Mennen, 2015;Ortega & Wu, 2025).”
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Barra–García, C. F., Véliz-Campos, M., Figueroa Candia, M. A., Pereira-Reyes, Y., & Kartsevski Dune, M. (2026) · Language Teaching Research Quarterly · doi:10.32038/ltrq.2026.55.04
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- Mennen, I.
- Affiliations
- University of Graz (AT)
- Corresponding author
- Mennen, Ineke
- ORCID
- Mennen, Ineke
- Venue
- Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Published
- 2015
- Pages
- 171-188
- ISSN
- 2197-8700 (ISSN-L)
- 2197-8719
- OpenAlex
- W2097828750
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- 22.29
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- book chapter
- Language
- en
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- Prosody, phonology and phonetics (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/J000302/1)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition
- Keywords
- semantic dimensions, second language prosody
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