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 …

In this chapter we examine the intonation of a number of varieties of Italian. Since there is no
agreement as to what constitutes' Standard Italian intonation'(see Lepschy and Lepschy …

Earlier studies on Standard Italian describe polar questions as being characterised by a
terminal rise, as opposed to a terminal fall for statements, where a low/falling accentual …

In recent years, prosodic competence has become increasingly important in second
language acquisition studies, as it is a crucial element in the identification of non-native …

4.5. Results I. Relative clauses 120 4.6. Results II. Clefts and relatives: a comparison
between structures, tasks, and participants 123 4.6. 1. A look at the single participants 129 …

In heritage language (HL) research, prosodic aspects of heritage speakers (HSs) speech
have only recently started to receive attention and the results have been mixed. While some …

The intonation of wh-questions in the Toscan variety of Lucques is the topic of this
communication. The theoretical framework is the one proposed by autosegmental …

L’hai messo DOVE il focus? Un’analisi prosodica delle domande eco wh-‐ Page 1 Versione
Ottobre 2016 L’hai messo DOVE il focus? Un’analisi prosodica delle domande eco wh …

The vast majority of work on question formation examines interrogatives from the
perspective of just one single component of grammar, usually the syntax or the prosody. The …

La tesis se centra en el estudio de la interfaz entre pragmática y prosodia y su objetivo
principal consiste en establecer el papel que desempeña la entonación en la expresión de …