“…A significant number of works have explored intonation in diverse L2 contexts. Some notable empirical studies on intonation are conducted among Spanish English speakers (Henriksen, Geeslin & Willis, 2010;Rao, 2016), German L2 speakers of English (Grosser, 1993), Japanese EFL learners (Saito & Saito, 2017), French learners of English (Horgues, 2013), Dutch L2 learners (van Maastricht, Swerts & Krahmer, 2013, Finnish learners of English (Toivanen, 2005), Russian learners of English (Mitrofanova, 2012), Indian English speakers (Puri, 2013), Malaysian learners of English (Yap & Pillai, 2018), Cantonese English speakers (Yiu, 2018), Vietnamese learners of English (Nguyễn & Đào, 2018), South African learners of English (Swerts & Zerbian, 2010), Cameroon English speakers (Ouafeu, 2014), Nigerian learners of English (Atoye, 2005;Akinjobi, 2012;Femi-Olaleye, 2020) among others.…”