TYPES OF INFORMATIONAL FOCUS IN ENGLISH UTTERANCE AND DIFFICULTIES IN ITS EXPRESSION IN NON-NATIVE SPEECH Cover Image

ТИПЫ ИНФОРМАЦИОННОГО ФОКУСА В АНГЛИЙСКОМ ВЫСКАЗЫВАНИИ И ТРУДНОСТИ ЕГО ВЫРАЖЕНИЯ В ИНОЯЗЫЧНОЙ РЕЧИ
TYPES OF INFORMATIONAL FOCUS IN ENGLISH UTTERANCE AND DIFFICULTIES IN ITS EXPRESSION IN NON-NATIVE SPEECH

Author(s): Elena Nickolaevna Makarova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: Informational focus; broad focus; narrow focus; sentence nucleus

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the notion of «informational focus» in the English language, including «broad focus» and «narrow focus», as well as with multiple linguistic means of its expression. The main results of the phonetic experiment targeting focus realization in the English speech of Spanish-speaking bilinguals, studying English as a second language, are presented.

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