ACADEMIC JOURNAL
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ISSN 2542-1077 (Print) ISSN 1994-5973 (Online) |
Linguistics |
Makarova E. N. | Ural State University of Economics |
Keywords: adverbial modifiers of time English language Spanish language phonetic prominence position in the sentence |
Summary: The article is concerned with the problem of syntactic and intonation characteristics of adverbial modifiers of time in English and
Spanish. Different types of word order in these two languages account for peculiar features of their position and phonetic prominence
in these languages. Ways of adverbial modifiers’ marking based on their communicative significance in English and Spanish are
described. Production and perception experimental methods with participation of native English and Spanish speakers are proposed.
The methods include analyzing both: native English speech and English speech of the Spanish speakers. Results of comparative
research of the English examples and their Spanish translations in different contexts are presented; analyses of incorrect variants
revealed on the basis of the perception experiment in the reading of the Spanish speakers is given. Dependence of adverbial modifiers’
position in the Spanish sentence on their informative significance is demonstrated. The results prove that difficulties of Spanish
speakers in intoning English sentences are caused by the interfering influence of their native language. The importance of the results for improving English and Spanish teaching methodology, as well as their applicability in courses on comparative and contrastive
linguistics are outlined. |
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