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 …

This article presents a corpus-based study of the correlations between prosodic contours
and question speech acts in Italian and French from the perspective of the Language into …

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 …

Abstract Information structure deals with the question of how—and specifically, in what order—
we choose to present the informational content of a proposition. In English and many other …

In this paper, we provide a qualitative examination of the prosody of Neapolitan dialect (ND)
as it relates to Neapolitan Italian (NI). Taking NI as baseline for comparison, ND data seem …

Aim of this paper is providing a preliminary account of some intonational features useful for
identifying a large number of Italian accents, estimated as representative of Italian regional …

A major function of prosody is the expression of attitudes, among them there is the certainty
and doubt. Through modulation of parameters such as melodic variation and duration …

Experimental investigations on the prosodic contact between regional Italian varieties and
the corresponding dialectal varieties are very scarce. In the present article, we provide a …

Experimental investigations on the prosodic contact between regional Italian varieties and
the corresponding dialectal varieties are very scarce. In the present article, we provide a first …

El presente trabajo se inserta en el marco de los estudios de la interfaz entre pragmática y
prosodia y se centra en un análisis de los patrones entonativos de algunas categorías …