The article describes the contrastive possibilities of alignment of high accents in three
Romance varieties, namely, Central Catalan, Neapolitan Italian, and Pisa Italian. The …

This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosodic structure. Taking a
phonological perspective, it shows how morpho-syntactic constituents are mapped to …

Tone and Intonation are two types of pitch variation, which are used by speakers of all
languages in order to give shape to utterances. More specifically, tone encodes segments …

The topic of the syntax-phonology interface is broad, encompassing different submodules of
grammar and interactions of these. This chapter addresses one fundamental aspect of the …

El modelo métrico-autosegmental de notación prosódica tiene su punto de partida en el
análisis de la entonación del inglés propuesto en la tesis doctoral de Pierrehumbert (1980) …

Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: The main goal of this paper is to analyse
how social factors determine the degree of occurrence of intonational features of Basque in …

Ideophones are described as expressive marked linguistic units with a dramaturgic depictive
function. Although commonly regarded in traditional general linguistics as rare and …

This paper presents new proposals for the reconstruction of Proto-Basque accentuation, as
well as the development and chronology of the main accentual systems of the modern …

This paper presents patterns of accentual alignment in two varieties of Spanish spoken in
the Basque Country: Lekeitio Spanish (LS), with speakers whose other native language is …

This paper presents data that force a revised account of the distribution of downstep and
pitch reset in Lekeitio Basque. In the light of these data, previous analyses of pitch reset in …