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 …

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 …

Abstract In Romance, Focus Fronting (FF) is generally related to a contrastive or corrective
function. In this paper, I show that Spanish may resort to FF to express a special evaluative …

The basic, unmarked order in Romance declarative clauses is SVO, and marked orders are
obtained by subject inversion (VS, VOS, VSO), by fronting (OVS) and by the reordering of …

This chapter reviews the current state of the art regarding the contribution of prosody to
pragmatic interpretation, with a focus on different varieties of Spanish. We review recent …

Nuestro estudio arroja algo de luz sobre la realización del foco neutro y el foco contrastivo
en español y propone un enfoque siguiendo la teoría de la optimidad estocástica para dar …

This study investigates the acquisition of subject placement in unergative and unaccusative
predicates among heritage speakers of Spanish by addressing two constraints ruling the …

Research on speech prosody has shown that higher-level phonological constituents can be
examined directly via their influence on low level phonetic processes (Beckman and …

This paper sheds new light on the question of how neutral and contrastive focus is realized
in Spanish and Catalan. By considering data collected through a production experiment …

This study investigates cue-weighting differences in intonation perception between tonal
and non-tonal languages, specifically focusing on how native Spanish listeners and …