Abstract
The present study intends to examine tone selection to signal information status by
undergraduate students of English as a foreign language (EFL) in the Phonetics and Phonology
I course at the School of Languages, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. This analysis, which
is mainly perceptual but also supported acoustically, aims to detect the most common
problems in the use of intonation contours of a group of EFL learners and to describe these
learners’ IL phonology.