Prosodic Variation (With)in Languages

Intonation, Phrasing and Segments
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-78179-468-5
Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 589 g

Reihe: Studies in Phonetics and Phonology

This volume focuses on research on prosodic variation, comprising intonation, prosodic phrasing, and segmental phenomena that are prosodically motivated or constrained, in several languages and language varieties. Besides Portuguese (European, Brazilian, and African varieties), the book covers another three unrelated languages and their varieties: Romanian, Arabic, and Assamese (spoken in India and Bangladesh). Language coverage is thus diverse, including understudied languages/varieties. The approaches followed are both experimental and theoretical. All the chapters share a common goal: to add to the knowledge of prosodic variation in each of the languages and varieties studied, and to contribute to the understanding of prosodic grammar, in general.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cruz, Marisa

Frota, Sonia Frota

Frota, Sónia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Marisa Cruz and Sonia Frota Part I: Intonation 1. Text-tune Alignment in Tunisian Arabic Yes-no Questions Sam Hellmuth (University of York) 2. Asking Questions across Portuguese Varieties Marisa Cruz, Veronica Crespo-Sendra, Joelma Castelo (Universidade Estadual do Parana, Brazil) and Sonia Frota 3. High Pre-tonic Falls in Northeastern Brazilian Varieties: May a Prenuclear High Target Spreading Rightward Re-categorize as a Nuclear Leading Tone? Marco Barone (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil) and Joelma Castelo 4. From ToBI Phonological Events to Functional Melodic Forms at the Communicative Level Doina Jitca (Institute of Computer Science of Romanian Academy) Part II: Prosodic Phrasing and Segments 5. Prosody of Contrastive Focus in Two Varieties of Assamese Asim. I. Twaha (Barnagar College, Sorbhog under Gauhati University, Guwahati, India) and Shakuntala Mahanta (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India) 6. Intonational Phrasing and Nuclear Configurations of SVO Sentences across Varieties of Portuguese Flaviane Fernandes-Svartman (Universidade de Sao Paulo), Nadia Barros (University of Lisbon), Vinicius dos Santos (Universidade de Sao Paulo) and Joelma Castelo 7. Hiatus Resolution across Words in European Portuguese Dialects Nuno Paulino, Pedro Oliveira and Marina Vigario (University of Lisbon)

Über Autor(innen)

Marisa Cruz is a Researcher at the Phonetics and Phonology Lab (CLUL/FLUL), University of Lisbon. Sónia Frota is Full Professor of Experimental Linguistics at the University of Lisbon.