Remarks on the diachronic reconstruction of intonational patterns in Romance with special attention to Occitan as a bridge language [PDF]
, 2003 This paper approaches Romance intonation from a diachronic point of view. The position that is adopted is that this is an area open to investigation. Comparative techniques can be fruitfully employed for investigating the evolution and diversification of
Hualde, José Ignacio
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Variation at the Interfaces in Ibero-Romance. Catalan and Spanish Prosody and Word Order [PDF]
, 2013 We are grateful to Joan Borràs-Comes for kindly providing us with the map that appears in Figure 1. Alba Chacón, Verònica Crespo-Sendra and Marianna Nadeu deserve a special mention for having participated unselfishly as narrators of the short picture ...
Fernández Soriano, Olga +1 more
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Wanted: a debate in pidgin/creole phonology [PDF]
, 1995 Contains fulltext : 4224.pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access ...
Muysken, P.C., Singh, R. (Rajendra)
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The phonetics and phonology of intonational phrasing in Romance [PDF]
, 2007 Previous work on intonational phrasing in Romance has addressed the role of syntactic and prosodic structure on the placement of boundaries within SVO utterances (Elordieta et al. 2003, D'Imperio et al. to appear). A comparable database of 744 utterances
d'Imperio, Mariapaola +4 more
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Historical Linguistics: Afro-Romanic, Basque and the origins of Ibero-Romance languages [PDF]
, 2016 This paper presents the state of the art regarding questions such as: How much do we know about the continuity of Latin in Northwest Africa between the 5th and the 10th centuries? How well do we know Afro-Romanic? Could we determine some basic linguistic
Francisco Marcos-Marin
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Europe: So Many Languages, So Many Cultures [PDF]
, 2011 The number of different languages in Europe by far exceeds the number of countries. All European countries have national languages, and in nearly all of them there are minority languages as well, whereas all major languages have dialects.
Steinhauer, H. (Hein)
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N morphology and its interpretation : the neuter in Central Italian varieties and its implications [PDF]
, 2015 We characterize Romance inflectional class morphology in Nouns as endowed with a semantic content, providing evidence about its active involvement at the syntaxsemantic interface.
Franco, Ludovico +2 more
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How discourse context shapes the lexicon: Explaining the distribution of Spanish f- / h- words [PDF]
, 2012 Using a corpus of Medieval Spanish text, we examine factors affecting the Modern Standard Spanish outcome of the initial /f/ in Latin FV‑ words. Regression analyses reveal that the frequency of a word’s use in extralexical phonetic reducing environments ...
Brown, Esther L., Raymond, William D
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On the processing of agreement morphology [PDF]
, 2018 The paper deals with the role played by morphology in core syntax within a generative minimalist framework: more specifically it deals with the theory of valuation of agreement or phi-features (that is, person and number features) and the valuation of ...
Castillo, Concha +1 more
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, 2007 Obra ressenyada: Pilar PRIETO; Joan MASCARÓ; Maria Josep SOLÉ (eds.). Segmental and prosodic issues in romance phonology.
Aguilar, Lourdes
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