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 literature on the phonetic correlates of stress agrees that duration, and in stress
accent languages, F0 are consistent correlates of stress. However, the role of amplitude …

Speakers have competent intuitions in assessing word order alternations as well as in
judging different prosodic patterns. Speakers can find a certain superficial word order tout …

Although the positive effects of iconic gestures on word recall and comprehension by
children have been clearly established, less is known about the benefits of beat gestures …

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 …

English speakers' perception of word-stress in Spanish was compared to that of native
Spanish controls. All participants performed a word-stress detection task in Spanish …

This paper examines the effects of lexical stress and speech rate on vowel quality and
duration in Central Catalan and Iberian Spanish and compares the patterns of phonetic …

The languages in the world can be divided roughly into two types of wordprosodic systems.
One type, probably a minority, has tone. 1 A tone language uses different pitches or …

We investigate whether acoustic cue weightings are transferred from the native language to
the second language [research question 1 (RQ1)], how cue weightings change with …

Persian words have prominence on the last syllable. Right-edge clitics fall outside this word
domain, and segmentally identical words and word-plus-clitic combinations therefore …