Frota / Vigário / Freitas Prosodies

With Special Reference to Iberian Languages
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-11-019758-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 9, 370 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Phonology and Phonetics [PP]ISSN

Prosodies, in the broad Firthian sense, covers phenomena that extend over stretches of segmental and featural units that must be examined with respect to their interaction with other features to fully appreciate their role in the phonetics and phonology of a given language. The papers deal with a wide range of subjects, from intonational prominence and prosodic phrasing to the acoustic properties of segments and features. Prosodies significantly broadens our knowledge of languages and dialect varieties that as yet have not been carefully investigated such as Cairene and Lebanese Arabic, Catalan including Central Catalan and the insular dialects of Majorcan, Minorcan and Alguer Catalan, Galician, Italian, various dialects of Portuguese (Standard European, Northern European, and Brazilian Portuguese), and different varieties of Argentine Spanish as well as Peninsular Spanish. However, well-known West Germanic languages, English, Dutch and German, have not been neglected. Many of the contributions are the first account of the phenomena addressed in the language(s) under consideration thus bringing new data to light. Moreover, most papers take a cross-linguistic or cross-dialectal view favouring a better understanding of language similarities and differences, as well as of language variation and change. This approach is crucial in the case of neighbouring languages/varieties and is an important contribution to the development of language typologies. And as is characteristic of the series, the research presented in Prosodies cover laboratory approaches as well as theoretical investigations.

Zielgruppe

Phonologists; Phoneticians; Advanced Students of Romance Language

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frota, Sónia

Vigário, Marina

Freitas, Maria João

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Table of contents;5
2;Introduction;7
3;Comments on Intonational Phrasing in English;17
4;Intonational phrasing in Romance: The role of syntactic and prosodic structure;65
5;No de-accenting in (or of) phrases: Evidence from Arabic for cross-linguistic and cross-dialectical prosodic variation;105
6;Positional and Metrical prominence effects on vowel sandhi in Catalan;129
7;The perception of word primary stress by European Portuguese speakers;165
8;Ears to categories: New arguments for autonomy;183
9;The Obligatory Contour Principle in the perception of English;229
10;Prosody and syllabification intuitions of [CiV] sequences in Spanish and Catalan;253
11;Intervocalic velar nasals in Galician: Phonetic evidence for multiple syllabic affiliation;275
12;Preconsonantal palatal segments. A cross-dialectal analysis;293
13;Dissimilation or dialect contact? The role of internal and external factors in changes affecting palatals and rhotics in Argentine Spanish;321
14;Nominal metaphony and vocalic harmony in Brazilian Portuguese: A constraint-based approach;345

Über Autor(innen)

Sonia Frota is Assistant Professor at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Lisbon and Collaborator Teacher in the Speech Therapy course, Escola Superior de Saúde do Alcoitão, Portugal. Maria João Freitas is Assistant Professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Marina Vigário is Associate Professor at the University of Minho, Portugal.