Dear all, 
 
I was wondering if anyone of you has any ideas about sharing with me ideas 
about the topic, literature and sharing contacts of colleagues working on 
second/foreign language acquisition of suprasegmentals, in particular 
intonation. I am writing my PhD thesis at the University of Munich and my 
main research question is how can the different proficiency of near-native 
accent of adult second language learners be explained with focus on intonation. 
 
As far as I am informed the area of segmentals has been far more researched 
than the one about acquiring (in the case of immigrants) or learning (in 
the case of foreign language learners) of the suprasegmentals. 
 
I would be extremely happy if you inform me about some person(s) who has 
the same research interests (or if you are one of them) so that we can 
exchange ideas (or maybe I found an additional supervisor from abroad). 
 
Also, I was wondering about what kind of software you use in order to 
transcribe intonation. I have heard about PRAAT and looked at their home 
page. After installing the program, it seems to me too complicated, so I am 
not quite sure about which parameters exactly are used for transcribing and 
analyzing intonation. 
 
I would be grateful for any input or information that can help me. 
 
Thank you in advance 
 
Kind regards 
Tanja Angelovska M.A.