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Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance

Author : Meghan E. Armstrong,Nicholas Henriksen,Maria del Mar Vanrell
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267450

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Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance by Meghan E. Armstrong,Nicholas Henriksen,Maria del Mar Vanrell Pdf

Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields is a volume of empirical research papers incorporating recent theoretical, methodological, and interdisciplinary advances in the field of intonation, as they relate to the Ibero-Romance languages. The volume brings together leading experts in Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish, as well as in the intonation of Spanish in contact situations. The common thread is that each paper examines a specific topic related to the intonation of at least one Ibero-Romance language, framing the analysis in an experimental setting. The novel findings of each chapter hinge on critical connections that are made between the study of intonation and its related fields of linguistic inquiry, including syntax, pragmatics, sociophonetics, language acquisition and special populations. In this sense, the volume expands the traditional scope of Ibero-Romance intonation, including in it work on signed languages (LSC), individuals with autism spectrum disorder and individuals with Williams Syndrome. This volume establishes the precedent for researchers and advanced students who wish to explore the complexities of Ibero-Romance intonation. It also serves as a showcase of the most up-to-date methodologies in intonational research.

Intonation in Romance

Author : Sónia Frota,Pilar Prieto
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191508486

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Intonation in Romance by Sónia Frota,Pilar Prieto Pdf

This book offers the first comprehensive description of the prosody of nine Romance languages that takes into account internal dialectal variation. Teams of experts examine the prosody of Catalan, French, Friulian, Italian, Occitan, Portuguese, Romanian, Sardinian, and Spanish using the Autosegmental Metrical framework of intonational phonology and the Tones and Breaks Indices (ToBI) transcription system. The chapters all share a common methodology, based on a common Discourse Completion Task questionnaire, and provide extensive empirical data. The authors then analyse how intonation patterns work together with other grammatical means such as syntactic constructions and discourse particles in the linguistic marking of a varied set of sentence types and pragmatic meanings across Romance languages. The ToBI prosodic systems and annotations proposed for each language are based both on a phonological analysis of the target language as well as on the shared goal of using ToBI analyses that are comparable across Romance languages. This book will pave the way for more systematic typological comparisons of prosody across both Romance and non-Romance languages.

Manual of Grammatical Interfaces in Romance

Author : Susann Fischer,Christoph Gabriel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110311860

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Manual of Grammatical Interfaces in Romance by Susann Fischer,Christoph Gabriel Pdf

Different components of grammar interact in non-trivial ways. It has been under debate what the actual range of interaction is and how we can most appropriately represent this in grammatical theory. The volume provides a general overview of various topics in the linguistics of Romance languages by examining them through the interaction of grammatical components and functions as a state-of-the-art report, but at the same time as a manual of Romance languages.

The intonation of expectations

Author : Jan Fliessbach
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961104130

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The intonation of expectations by Jan Fliessbach Pdf

This book provides a new perspective on prosodically marked declaratives, wh-exclamatives, and discourse particles in the Madrid variety of Spanish. It argues that some marked forms differ from unmarked forms in that they encode modal evaluations of the at-issue meaning. Two epistemic evaluations that can be shown to be encoded by intonation in Spanish are obviousness and mirativity, which present the at-issue meaning as expected and unexpected, respectively. An empirical investigation via a production experiment finds that they are associated with distinct intonational features under constant focus scope, with stances of (dis)agreement showing an impact on obvious declaratives. Wh-exclamatives are found not to differ significantly in intonational marking from neutral declaratives, showing that they need not be miratives. Moreover, we find that intonational marking on different discourse particles in natural dialogue correlates with their meaning contribution without being fully determined by it. In part, these findings quantitatively confirm previous qualitative findings on the meaning of intonational configurations in Madrid Spanish. But they also add new insights on the role intonation plays in the negotiation of commitments and expectations between interlocutors.

Intonation Between Phrasing and Accent

Author : Timo Buchholz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783111304595

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Intonation Between Phrasing and Accent by Timo Buchholz Pdf

Are our concepts from prosodic typology, like word stress, pitch accent, head-/edge-prominence, really that tightly linked to individual languages? How are meanings often signaled via intonation in European languages, like information structure and sentence type, expressed in communicative acts between speakers who are bilingual in such a European language, Spanish, and one in which many of these meanings are expressed by morphology, Quechua? Based on semi-spontaneous dialogical elicitation data in both Spanish and Quechua gathered via fieldwork in the bilingual community of Huari, Peru, this work provides some challenging answers to these questions. Besides being the first detailed description of the prosody of a Central Quechuan language, it provides an in-depth study of the intonational systems and prosodic structures of the two languages and shows that their variation spaces overlap to a large extent, in turns exhibiting or not exhibiting evidence of word stress, pitch accents, lexical pitch accents in loanwords, and head- or edge-prominence.

Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond

Author : Marco García García,Melanie Uth
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263483

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Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond by Marco García García,Melanie Uth Pdf

What are the linguistic means for expressing different types of foci such as (narrow) information focus and contrastive focus in Romance languages, and why are there such differing views on such a presumably clear-cut research subject? Bringing together original expert work from a variety of linguistic disciplines and perspectives such as language acquisition and language contact, this volume provides a state-of-the-art discussion on central issues of focus realization. These include the interaction between prosody, syntax, and pragmatics, the typology of word order and intonation languages, the differentiation between focus and related notions such as contrast and presupposed modality, and the role of synchronic variation and change. The studies presented in this volume cover a broad range of Romance languages, including French, Italian, Portuguese, and different varieties of Spanish. Moreover, the book also offers new insights into non-Romance languages such as English, German, and Quechua.

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018

Author : Sergio Baauw,Frank Drijkoningen,Luisa Meroni
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258298

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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018 by Sergio Baauw,Frank Drijkoningen,Luisa Meroni Pdf

This volume contains a peer reviewed selection of invited contributions, papers and posters that were presented at the 2018 venue of Going Romance (XXXII) in Utrecht (a four day program that included two thematic workshops). The papers all discuss data and formalized analyses of one or more Romance languages or dialects, in either synchronic or diachronic perspective, and pay particular attention to the variation and the actual variability that is at stake, not only in syntax and morpho-syntax but also in semantics and phonology. Beyond the discussion of differences between languages and/or dialects from a formalist perspective, the volume also contains a number of papers linking the theme of variation to sociolinguistic issues such as natural bilingualism and micro-contact.

Language Patterns in Spanish and Beyond

Author : Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana,Sandro Sessarego
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000193145

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Language Patterns in Spanish and Beyond by Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana,Sandro Sessarego Pdf

The scholarly articles included in this volume represent significant contributions to the fields of formal and descriptive syntax, conversational analysis and speech act theory, as well as language development and bilingualism. Taken together, these studies adopt a variety of methodological techniques—ranging from grammaticality judgments to corpus-based analysis to experimental approaches—to offer rich insights into different aspects of Ibero-Romance grammar. The volume consists of three parts, organized in accordance with the topics treated in the chapters they comprise. Part I focuses on structural patterns, Part II analyzes pragmatic ones, and Part III investigates the acquisition of linguistic aspects found in the speech of L1, L2 and heritage speakers. The authors address these issues by relying on empirically rooted linguistic approaches to data collection, which are coupled with current theoretical assumptions on the nature of sentence structure, discourse dynamics and language acquisition. The volume will be of interest to anyone researching or studying Hispanic and Ibero-Romance linguistics.

The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition

Author : Pilar Prieto,Núria Esteve-Gibert
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264213

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The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition by Pilar Prieto,Núria Esteve-Gibert Pdf

Prosodic development is increasingly recognized as a fundamental stepping stone in first language acquisition. Prosodic sensitivity starts developing very early, with newborns becoming attuned to the prosodic properties of the ambient language, and it continues to develop during childhood until early adolescence. In the last decades, a flourishing literature has reported on the varied set of prosodic skills that children acquire and how they interact with other linguistic and cognitive skills. This book compiles a set of seventeen short review chapters from distinguished experts that have contributed significantly to our knowledge about how prosody develops in first language acquisition. The ultimate aim of the book is to offer a complete state of the art on prosodic development that allows the reader to grasp the literature from an interdisciplinary and critical perspective. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, speech therapy, and education.

L2 Spanish and Italian intonation

Author : Andrea Pešková
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783961104185

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L2 Spanish and Italian intonation by Andrea Pešková Pdf

The main aim of this book is to contribute to our understanding of the acquisition of second language intonation, by comparing Czech learners of Spanish with German learners of Spanish and Czech learners of Italian. By means of a large production database, the study seeks to uncover how L1-to-L2 intonational transfer works and what role prosodic (dis)similarities between languages play. Contrary to most previous research, the work presents an original multidirectional cross-linguistic comparison and examines different types of sentence, such as neutral and non-neutral statements, yes/no questions, wh-questions, exclamatives and vocatives. The findings reveal positive and negative transfer from L1 to L2, and the formation of mixed patterns as well as native-like patterns, which are mainly constrained by linguistic factors such as the type of sentence and the position of the tonal event in the utterance. The results are discussed within Mennen’s (2015) L2 Intonation Learning theory and lead to the formulation of a Developmental L2 Intonation Hypothesis that makes several generalizations to characterize interlanguage intonation. This volume not only represents a step forward in the study of the acquisition of L2 intonation in general but also offers valuable findings that can be directly or indirectly applied in the classroom and will hopefully inspire further research.

Exploring Cross-linguistic Effects and Phonetic Interactions in the Context of Bilingualism

Author : Mark Amengual
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783036509662

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Exploring Cross-linguistic Effects and Phonetic Interactions in the Context of Bilingualism by Mark Amengual Pdf

This Special Issue includes fifteen original state-of-the-art research articles from leading scholars that examine cross-linguistic influence in bilingual speech. These experimental studies contribute to the growing number of studies on multilingual phonetics and phonology by introducing novel empirical data collection techniques, sophisticated methodologies, and acoustic analyses, while also presenting findings that provide robust theoretical implications to a variety of subfields, such as L2 acquisition, L3 acquisition, laboratory phonology, acoustic phonetics, psycholinguistics, sociophonetics, blingualism, and language contact. These studies in this book further elucidate the nature of phonetic interactions in the context of bilingualism and multilingualism and outline future directions in multilingual phonetics and phonology research.

The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody

Author : Carlos Gussenhoven,Professor of General and Experimental Phonology Carlos Gussenhoven,Aoju Chen,Professor of Language Development in Relation to Socialisation and Identity Aoju Chen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 957 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780198832232

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The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody by Carlos Gussenhoven,Professor of General and Experimental Phonology Carlos Gussenhoven,Aoju Chen,Professor of Language Development in Relation to Socialisation and Identity Aoju Chen Pdf

This handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of language prosody, written by leading experts from different disciplines. The volume's comprehensive coverage and multidisciplinary approach will make it an invaluable resource for all researchers, students, and practitioners interested in prosody.

Methods in prosody

Author : Ingo Feldhausen, Jan Fliessbach,Maria del Mar Vanrell
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783961101047

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Methods in prosody by Ingo Feldhausen, Jan Fliessbach,Maria del Mar Vanrell Pdf

This book presents a collection of pioneering papers reflecting current methods in prosody research with a focus on Romance languages. The rapid expansion of the field of prosody research in the last decades has given rise to a proliferation of methods that has left little room for the critical assessment of these methods. The aim of this volume is to bridge this gap by embracing original contributions, in which experts in the field assess, reflect, and discuss different methods of data gathering and analysis. The book might thus be of interest to scholars and established researchers as well as to students and young academics who wish to explore the topic of prosody, an expanding and promising area of study.

Cuban Spanish Dialectology

Author : Alejandro Cuza
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Sociolinguistics
ISBN : 9781626165106

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Cuban Spanish Dialectology by Alejandro Cuza Pdf

This volume covers existing lacunae on Cuban Spanish dialectology by providing a state-of-the-art collection of articles from different theoretical perspectives and linguistic areas, including phonological and phonetic variation, morphosyntactic approaches, sociolinguistic perspectives, and the acquisition of Cuban Spanish as a heritage language. --Jorge Guitart, professor of Spanish linguistics, University at Buffalo: The State University of New York

Manual of Romance Phonetics and Phonology

Author : Christoph Gabriel,Randall Gess,Trudel Meisenburg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 989 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110550283

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Manual of Romance Phonetics and Phonology by Christoph Gabriel,Randall Gess,Trudel Meisenburg Pdf

This handbook is structured in two parts: it provides, on the one hand, a comprehensive (synchronic) overview of the phonetics and phonology (including prosody) of a breadth of Romance languages and focuses, on the other hand, on central topics of research in Romance segmental and suprasegmental phonology, including comparative and diachronic perspectives. Phonetics and phonology have always been a core discipline in Romance linguistics: the wide synchronic variety of languages and dialects derived from spoken Latin is extensively explored in numerous corpus and atlas projects, and for quite a few of these varieties there is also more or less ample documentation of at least some of their diachronic stages. This rich empirical database offers excellent testing grounds for different theoretical approaches and allows for substantial insights into phonological structuring as well as into (incipient, ongoing, or concluded) processes of phonological change. The volume can be read both as a state-of-the-art report of research in the field and as a manual of Romance languages with special emphasis on the key topics of phonetics and phonology.