Makarova, E. N. ADVERBIAL MODIFIERS OF TIME IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH UTTERANCES: POSITION AND PHONETIC PROMINENCE // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2019. No 1 (178). P. 46–50. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2019.269


Linguistics

ADVERBIAL MODIFIERS OF TIME IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH UTTERANCES: POSITION AND PHONETIC PROMINENCE

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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