A study of the English postposition ago in the speech of adult native speakers in advanced EFL recordings by Tiziani, José María

“…The right contextual placement of the nucleus in English has proven to be quite a challenge for EFL teacher/translator trainees, a generally much more daunting task than when faced, for example, with having to make an appropriate tone choice. Consequently, when having to assign prominence to phrases containing elements such as ago, whose classification into lexical and non-lexical varies greatly in the literature, learners generally end up producing faulty accentual patterns which tend to deviate from native speaker norm. …”
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