Théorie, recherche et didactique de la prosodie et de l’intonation en L2 : nouvelles perspectives

• Main Author: Fabián Santiago
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: ACEDLE 2019-01-01
• Series: Recherches en didactique des langues et des cultures
• Subjects: non-native prosody; second language intonation; teaching L2 French prosody; didactics; Language learning and teaching; phonology
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/rdlc/4545
• ISSN: 1958-5772

We discuss the results of recent research on experimental phonology and their integration into modern and contextualized grammars for students of L2 French. This paper focuses on the basic properties of Accentual Phrases in French, their relations with prosodic phrasing, and the description of melodic contours. We illustrate how such notions are being investigated within the field of second language acquisition. Our goal is to stress the importance of integrating new findings of experimental phonology into teaching practices of French as an L2.