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It has been generally thought that Northern varieties of European Portuguese (EP) are more conservative than Standard (Lisbon) EP, and show some similarity with Spanish.
Marina Vigario, Sónia Frota
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The syntax-phonology mapping of intonational phrases in complex sentences: A flexible approach
In this paper, we extend to complex sentences the proposal that the notion of clause in ALIGN/MATCH constraints related to the syntax-prosody mapping of the intonational phrase should be determined in each language (and each construction) by making ...
Fatima Hamlaoui, Kriszta Eszter Szendroi
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Deconstructing information structure
The paper argues that a core part of what is traditionally referred to as ‘information structure’ can be deconstructed into genuine morphosyntactic features that are visible to syntactic operations, contribute to discourse-related expressive meanings ...
Angelika Kratzer, Elisabeth Selkirk
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The objective of the study is to contribute to our understanding of the acquisition of second language intonation by comparing L2 Italian and L2 Spanish as produced by L1 Czech learners.
Andrea Pešková
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Contrastive focus, givenness and the unmarked status of "discourse-new" [PDF]
New evidence is provided for a grammatical principle that singles out contrastive focus (Rooth 1996; Truckenbrodt 1995) and distinguishes it from discourse-new “informational” focus.
Selkirk, Elisabeth
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Hierarchical distinctions in the production and perception of nuclear tunes in American English
In Autosegmental-Metrical models of intonational phonology, different types of pitch accents, phrase accents, and boundary tones concatenate to create a set of phonologically distinct phrase-final nuclear tunes.
Jennifer Cole +3 more
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La phonologie des exclamations en anglais
Based on a corpus made up of recordings from Tennessee Williams’s play, A Streetcar Named Desire, this article investigates the phonology of exclamative utterances.
Stephan Wilhelm
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Exploring the Complexity of the L2 Intonation System: An Acoustic and Eye-Tracking Study
Phonological research has demonstrated that English intonation, variably referred to as prosody, is a multidimensional and multilayered system situated at the interface of information structure, morphosyntactic structure, phonological phenomena, and ...
Di Liu, Marnie Reed
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The Autosegmental-Metrical Model of Intonational Phonology [PDF]
Contains fulltext : 252799.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Intonation research and the Autosegmental Metrical model of intonational phonology [with Greek examples]: Parts I and II [PDF]
Arvaniti, A. (2021, April). Intonation research and the Autosegmental Metrical model of intonational phonology [with Greek examples]: Parts I and II. Research Seminars organized by the Department of Linguistics, National and Kapodistrian University of ...
Amalia Arvaniti +2 more
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