List of abbreviations and acronyms

(Aix-en-Provence) Machine-Readable Spoken English Corpus

Autosegmental-Metrical

American English

Age of Acquisition

Age of Arrival

Age of Learning

Accentual Phrases

articulation rate

Australian English

British English

Boundary Tone

Basic Variety

Contrastive Analysis

Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis

Communication Accommodation Theory

Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis

cross-linguistic influence

Critical Period Hypothesis

creaky voice

Czech English

Czech Tone and Break Indices

decibels

Difference In Distance

English as a Foreign Language

English Language Teaching

Equivalent Rectangular Bandwidth

English as a Second Language

fundamental frequency

Foreign Language Teaching

German English

German Tone and Break Indices

High Rising Terminal

Hertz

interlanguage

intermediate phrase

intonation phrase

International Phonetic Alphabet

Institute for Perception Research

International Prosodic Alphabet

International Teaching Assistants

Intonation Unit

Intonational Variation in English

First language

Second language

Learner Corpus Linguistics

Linear Decline Hypothesis

Learning Prosody in a Foreign Language

Lingua Franca Core

L2 Intonation Learning Theory

Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage

Czech component of LINDSEI

German component of LINDSEI

Spanish component of LINDSEI

London Lund Corpus

Louvain Corpus of Native English Conversation

Length of Residence

Long Term Distributional

Mainstream American English Tone and Break Indices

Markedness Differential Hypothesis

Mean length of run

Native Language

Nationwide Speech Project

New South Voices

Pitch Accent

Parametric Intonation Events

Perceptual Assimilation Model

Perceptual Assimilation Model for non-native speakers

Principal Component Analysis

Pitch Dynamism Quotient

Phrase Accent

per hundred ips

per hundred words

Prominent Syllable

Rising terminal

Southern American English

Second Language Acquisition

Strict Layer Hypothesis

Speech Learning Model (revised)

Southern California

Spanish English

Sound Pressure Level

Spanish Tone and Break Indices

Southern Standard British English

semitone(s)

syllables per second

syllables per minute

Target language

Tone and Break Indices

Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Testing of English as a Foreign Language

Urban Northern British

words per minute