An experiment is reported in which twelve Finnish test subjects, first-year university students
of English, acted a pre-written conversational dialogue representing colloquial English. To …

This paper first gives a summary of the theoretical approaches to the role of phonetics and
phonology in language learning and teaching as developed by the Finnish-English Cross-…

The present study looks at how English pronunciation teaching practices are like in Finnish
schools from the primary to upper secondary level; in particular, which methods are used and …

A speech database containing spoken English produced by proficient non-native speakers
is described. The material was collected in connection with thesis seminars where the …

Authentic Finnish-English speech data was collected as part of an English conversation
class in a Finnish college. Intonation was coded utilizing the framework involving ‘tone’, ‘key’ …

In this paper, the falling-rising tone in the English of very proficient non-native speakers is
discussed. The speech data was collected in connection with MA thesis seminar sessions …

High rising melodic pattern is an essential feature of yes/no-questions and elliptic questions
in Russian, because it distinguishes between the declarative and interrogative sentence. …

This study analyzes native Russian speakers’ evaluation of seven Russian yes/noquestions
each produced by Finnish speakers in two sets of recordings (during a stay in Russia and …

The aim of this paper is to determine the pitch contours Finns use when uttering yes/no questions
in Russian. In addition, the pitch contours will be compared to native speech as well as …

Spanish and Finnish have a similar, syllable-timed, rhythm but very different stress and
intonation patterns. Based on the “Frequency Code,” whereby meanings of confidence and …