Prosodies: With Special Reference to Iberian Languages

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2005

Prosodies

With Special Reference to Iberian Languages

Edited by: Sónia Frota , Marina Vigário and Maria João Freitas

Volume 9 in the series Phonology and Phonetics [PP]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197587

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About this book

Prosodies, in the broad Firthian sense, covers phenomena that extend over stretches of segmental and featural units that must be examined with respect to their interaction with other features to fully appreciate their role in the phonetics and phonology of a given language.

The papers deal with a wide range of subjects, from intonational prominence and prosodic phrasing to the acoustic properties of segments and features. Prosodies significantly broadens our knowledge of languages and dialect varieties that as yet have not been carefully investigated such as Cairene and Lebanese Arabic, Catalan including Central Catalan and the insular dialects of Majorcan, Minorcan and Alguer Catalan, Galician, Italian, various dialects of Portuguese (Standard European, Northern European, and Brazilian Portuguese), and different varieties of Argentine Spanish as well as Peninsular Spanish. However, well-known West Germanic languages, English, Dutch and German, have not been neglected. Many of the contributions are the first account of the phenomena addressed in the language(s) under consideration thus bringing new data to light.

Moreover, most papers take a cross-linguistic or cross-dialectal view favouring a better understanding of language similarities and differences, as well as of language variation and change. This approach is crucial in the case of neighbouring languages/varieties and is an important contribution to the development of language typologies. And as is characteristic of the series, the research presented in Prosodies cover laboratory approaches as well as theoretical investigations.

Author / Editor information

Sonia Frota is Assistant Professor at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Lisbon and Collaborator Teacher in the Speech Therapy course, Escola Superior de Saúde do Alcoitão, Portugal.

Maria João Freitas is Assistant Professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Marina Vigário is Associate Professor at the University of Minho, Portugal.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
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Introduction Sónia Frota, Marina Vigário and João Freitas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1: Intonation, prominence and phrasing
Comments on Intonational Phrasing in English Elisabeth Selkirk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Intonational phrasing in Romance: The role of syntactic and prosodic structure Mariapaola D'Imperio, Gorka Elordieta, Sónia Frota, Pilar Prieto and Marina Vigário Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
No de-accenting in (or of) phrases: Evidence from Arabic for cross-linguistic and cross-dialectical prosodic variation Sam Hellmuth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Positional and Metrical prominence effects on vowel sandhi in Catalan Teresa Cabré and Pilar Prieto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
The perception of word primary stress by European Portuguese speakers Adelina Castelo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Part 2: Syllables, segments and features
Ears to categories: New arguments for autonomy John Kingston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
The Obligatory Contour Principle in the perception of English Andries W. Coetzee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Prosody and syllabification intuitions of [CiV] sequences in Spanish and Catalan Miquel Simonet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Intervocalic velar nasals in Galician: Phonetic evidence for multiple syllabic affiliation Sonia Colina and Manuel Díaz-Campos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Preconsonantal palatal segments. A cross-dialectal analysis Clàudia Pons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Dissimilation or dialect contact? The role of internal and external factors in changes affecting palatals and rhotics in Argentine Spanish Laura Colantoni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Nominal metaphony and vocalic harmony in Brazilian Portuguese: A constraint-based approach Carmen Lúcia Barreto Matzenauer and Ana Ruth Moresco Miranda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Phonologists; Phoneticians; Advanced Students of Romance Languages; Speech Pathologists; Speech Engineers; Computer Scientists; Translators; Libraries.
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 364
Illustrations
- Other: Numerous fig
Keywords: linguistic typology; phonology; syntax; phonetics

eBook

Published: February 26, 2009
ISBN: 9783110197587

Hardcover

Published: November 16, 2005
ISBN: 9783110184440