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 …

The general goal of this study was to expand our understanding of what is meant by 'foreign
accent'. More specifically, it deals with the role of prosody (timing and melody), which has …

The goal of this study is twofold: first, to examine in greater depth the claimed contribution of
differences in syllable structure to measures of speech rhythm for three languages that are …

This volume offers a unique collection of articles investigating the often neglected
phenomenon of parentheticals, which are commonly seen as expressions interrupting the …

In this article, a prosodic domain located between the prosodic word and the phonological
phrase is argued for (the prosodic word group–PWG). This constituent groups the members …

This chapter presents an analysis of the prosodic and intonational structure of Catalan within
the Autosegmental-Metrical (AM) framework (Pierrehumbert 1980, Pierrehumbert and …

Catalan is a Romance language that is spoken by about 10 million people in a region that
lies within four adjacent European states, namely Andorra, Italy, France, and Spain. 1 Fig …

The present work deals with the intonational phrasing of preverbal subjects, object clauses
and clitic left-and right-dislocations in the Catalan language and thus deals with complex …

This study investigates vocalic creak in connection to the demarcation of prosodic
boundaries in Spanish. Data from a picture task from 10 native Spanish speakers from …

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 …