[HTML][HTML] The greater the contrast, the greater the potential: On the effects of focus in syntax

S Cruschina - Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2021 - glossa-journal.org
The most debated syntactic reflex that is typically associated with contrast is the movement
of a contrastive constituent to a dedicated, left-peripheral position. For Italian and Spanish, it …

[PDF][PDF] The Discourse Completion Task in Romance prosody research: Status quo and outlook

M del Mar Vanrell, I Feldhausen… - Methods in prosody: A …, 2018 - library.oapen.org
The growing interest in the interfaces of prosody with other areas, notably pragmatics, has
led to an interesting cross-fertilization of methods such as the Discourse Completion Task …

[HTML][HTML] Stop lenition in Canary Islands Spanish–A motion capture study

K Broś, PA Krause - Laboratory Phonology, 2024 - journal-labphon.org
In this paper, we investigate the phonological and prosodic effects of lenition in Canary
Islands Spanish using new methodology. In the course of a motion capture study conducted …

[图书][B] Intonation between phrasing and accent: Spanish and Quechua in Huari

T Buchholz - 2024 - library.oapen.org
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Focus and focus structures in the Romance languages

S Cruschina - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Romance …, 2022 - helda.helsinki.fi
Focus is a key notion to understand processes of syntactic and prosodic readjustments in
Romance. Since, prosodically, it must be the most prominent constituent in the sentence …

[HTML][HTML] The interplay of information structure, semantics, prosody, and word ordering in Spanish intransitives

S Calhoun, E La Cruz, A Olssen - Laboratory Phonology, 2018 - journal-labphon.org
A production experiment was run to examine how information structure and verbal
semantics affect word ordering and nuclear stress placement in intransitive sentences in …

[PDF][PDF] Una nota sobre el foco informativo en español

E Vidal, VM Leonetti - Lengua, cultura, discurso. Estudios …, 2019 - researchgate.net
La generalización de Zubizarreta (1998, 1999), según la cual en español los sujetos que
reciben el foco informativo no pueden permanecer en la posición inicial y deben moverse …

Stress and final/n/deletion in Catalan: Combining Strict CV and OT

N Faust, F Torres-Tamarit - Glossa: a journal of general …, 2017 - glossa-journal.org
In Catalan,/n/deletes in word-final position when it is preceded by a stressed vowel. In this
paper, we present an analysis that combines the representations of Strict CV and the …

Subject position and verb class in L2 Greek and L2 Spanish

P Margaza, A Gavarró - Second Language Research, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Greek and Spanish are two languages that display a similar subject distribution with
unergative/unaccusative verbs, but different word orders with focused subjects (SV in Greek …

[HTML][HTML] The realization of focus in Asturian Spanish

C Sánchez-Alvarado… - Journal of Portuguese …, 2018 - jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt
Spanish was classified as a language that only exploits syntactic mechanisms to mark focus.
Recent experimental studies, nonetheless, have shown that speakers of different dialects …