This book presents cutting-edge research on the production and perception of speech rhythm by speakers of English in countries where it is used as a foreign language or an institutionalised second language (also sometimes known as the Expanding and Outer Circles). It contributes to a better understanding of speech rhythm, which has long been recognised as an important supra-segmental category of speech, focusing on its relevance in World Englishes, Second Language Acquisition and learner varieties of English, as well as the sociolinguistic and perceptual significance of this phonological variable.
(Re-)viewing the Acquisition of Rhythm in the Light of L2 Phonological
Theories.- Individual Patterns in Production and Perception of Periodic
Speech Among L1 and L2 English Speakers.- Analysing Rhythmic Variability in
Indian English: the Case of Marathi English and Telugu English.- The
Introduction of English Rhythm in the EFL Classroom to Improve
Intelligibility, Comprehensibility and Fluency.- Bilingual and Monolingual
Speech Rhythm in Additional Language Learning.- Rhythmic Patterns of
Malaysian English Speakers.- L2 Speech Rhythm Development in a Study-Abroad
Setting.- Investigating (Rhythm) Variation in Indian English: an Integrated
Approach.- Novel Methods for Characterising L2 Speech Rhythm.- Speech
Rhythm, Intonation and Segmental Differences as Cues to Dialect
Discrimination.
Dr. Robert Fuchs is an Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He has previously held positions in Hong Kong and at the Universities of Münster and Augsburg, Germany. His research focuses on acoustic phonetics and laboratory phonology, corpus linguistics, corpus-assisted discourse analysis, varieties of English and learner English. In 2016, he was awarded the Richard M. Hogg Prize by the International Society for the Linguistics of English.
