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Humanities
- ISSN: 2155-7993
- Journal of Modern Education Review
The Need for a Mono-Polysystemic Approach
Mohammad Ishaq Anani
(University of Petra, Amman, Jordan)
Abstract: The objectives of this study are the following: (i) to highlight the importance of taking into account not only paradigmatic relations and contrasts characteristic of a monosytemic approach, but also the syntagmatic relations which distinguish the prosodic approach. (ii) to make explicit the advantages of adopting the prosodic approach when describing the Arabic prosodic features of “emphasis”. (iii) to point out the advantages of the distinctive feature approach when dealing with phonological analysis of natural speech. (iv) to draw pedagogic conclusions concerning L2 learning processes as a result of adopting a mono-and/or a polysytemic approach.
Key words: advantages, prosodic approach, L2 learning template, phonatictic restrictions
