In this study we investigate how word order interacts with prosody in the expression of
sentence modality and different focus constructions in different varieties of Catalan and …

This book examines how speakers of Ibero-Romance'do things' with conversational units of
language, paying particular attention to what they do with i) vocatives, interjections, and …

The main aim of this book is to contribute to our understanding of the acquisition of second
language intonation, by comparing Czech learners of Spanish with German learners of …

One of the unresolved issues in the field of intonational phonology is whether pitch accent
range differences are used by languages to express discrete linguistic distinctions. In …

This paper gives a detailed description of the consonant system of Campidanese Sardinian
and makes methodological and theoretical contributions to the study of lenition. The data are …

In recent years there has been increasing recognition of the vital role of intonation in speech
communication. While contemporary models represent intonation—the tune—and the text …

This paper develops a model of lenition in Campidanese Sardinian. The model treats
lenition (and its inverse, fortition) as a predictable consequence of gradient changes in …

The present study investigates the prosodic realization of calling contours by bilingual
speakers of Bulgarian and (Bulgarian) Judeo-Spanish and monolingual speakers of …

The article focuses on some intonational features of three Romance languages spoken in
northern Sardinia (Algherese Catalan, Logudorese Sardinian, and the Sardinian regional …

This article focuses on hypocoristic truncation in Sardinian. Besides disyllabic truncation,
hypocoristic truncation in Sardinian also yields trisyllabic truncated forms by means of a …