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9789027258052
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Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics v.6
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Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction: Intonational grammar in Ibero-Romance -- References -- Foreword: Fundamental issues in Ibero-Romance intonational research -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Building blocks and meaning of intonational contours -- 3. Prominence and phrasing -- 4. Oral and visual information -- 5. Language contact -- 6. Acquisition of prosody -- References -- Task-related effects in the prosody of Spanish heritage speakers and long-term immigrants -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 Phonological transfer -- 2.2 Phonological transfer in Spanish -- 3. Suprasegmental differences between English and Spanish -- 4. Research questions and Hypotheses -- 5. The study -- 5.1 Participants -- 5.2 Design and procedures -- 5.3 Data Analysis -- 6. Results -- 6.1 Reading task: "The North Wind and the Sun" -- 6.2 Narrative: "Little Red Riding Hood" -- 7. Discussion -- 8. Conclusions -- References -- Pitch accent tonal alignment in declarative sentences in the Spanish of the Basque Country -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. The experiment -- 3.1 The design -- 3.2 Illustrative data -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Stylistic variation in the intonation of European Portuguese teenagers and adults -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 2.1 Corpus and Data -- 2.2 Annotation procedures -- 2.3 Automatic feature extraction processes -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Overall results -- 3.2 Spontaneous vs. prepared presentations -- 3.2.1 Phrase levels -- 3.2.2 Nuclear accents -- 3.2.3 Boundary configuration -- 4. Discussion and conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Focus and prosody in Spanish and Quechua -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Focus structure and prosody in Quechua -- 3. Focus structure and prosody in Spanish -- 4. Methodology
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4.1 Participants -- 4.2 Materials -- 4.3 Data analysis -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Peninsular Spanish -- 5.2 Quechua -- 5.3 Bilingual Peruvian Spanish -- 6. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Cost of the action and social distance affect the selection of question intonation in Catalan -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methods -- 2.1 Participants -- 2.2 Materials -- 2.3 Procedure -- 2.4 Data labeling -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Morpho-syntactic and intonational strategies used with offers and requests -- 3.2 Use of intonation patterns with offering and requesting questions: Effects of Distance, Power and Cost -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Intonation modeling in cross-linguistic research -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The PENTA model for functional F0 contours leaning and generation -- 2.1 Analysis-by-synthesis modelling with PENTATrainer2 -- 3. Methodology -- 3.1 The parallel corpus -- 3.2 Annotation -- 3.3 Learning -- 3.4 Synthesis -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Signalling prominence in Portuguese -- 4.2 Signalling non-terminality in Portuguese -- 4.3 Signalling terminality in Portuguese -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Acknowledgments -- References -- Prosody and Emotion in Brazilian Portuguese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data recording and analysis -- 2.1 Corpus description -- 2.2 Prosodic correlates of basic emotions -- 3. Perceptual analysis -- 3.1 Experimental setup -- 3.2 Results analysis for test A -- 3.2.1 Recognition of emotional portrayals -- 3.2.2 Classification of emotions -- 3.3 Results analysis for test B -- 3.3.1 Recognition of sentence modes -- 3.3.2 Classification of sentence modes -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- The Relation between Prosody and Syntax -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The hypotheses -- 3. The boundary cues -- 4. Left-dislocations in Spanish -- 4.1 Methodology -- 4.1.1 Location, subjects, and recordings -- 4.1.2 Material
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4.1.2.1 HTLD. There are four conditions for HTLD: (a) pronoun vs. epithet: the resumptive element is either a strong pronoun (e.g. 6a) or an epithet (e.g. 6b) -- (b) direct vs. as for: the dislocated element can be either bare (6a-d) or introduced by en cua -- 4.1.2.2 CLLD. The CLLD material consists of simple CLLD (8) and multiple CLLD (9). In simple CLLD, there is a single condition: short vs. long CLLD element (either 1ω (8a) or 2ω (8b), respectively). The material used for simple CLLD is identical to that i -- 4.1.2.3 LDw/oRP. The LDw/oRP material was constructed in an analogous manner to that for the CLLD. The materials consist of simple LDw/oRP (10) and multiple LDw/oRP (11). In the simple cases, the only condition was short vs. long dislocation (either 1ω (1 -- 4.1.3 Procedure -- 4.2 Results -- 4.2.1 HTLD -- 4.2.2 CLLD -- 4.2.3 LDw/oRP -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix -- The intonational meaning of polar questions in Manchego Spanish spontaneous speech -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 Intonational form and meaning in Spanish -- 2.2 Elicitation methods -- 3. Methods -- 3.1 Speakers and recording protocol -- 3.2 Phonetic analysis -- 3.3 Pragmatic analysis -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Intonational analysis -- 4.2 Pragmatic use of nuclear configurations -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1 Frequency of use -- 5.2 Pragmatic use: L+H* H% and L+H* L% -- 5.3 Pragmatic use: L* H% and H+L* L% -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Declarative utterances in Buenos Aires Spanish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 3. The data and methodology -- 4. Analysis of the data -- 4.1 Assertions and the H+L* L% nuclear configuration -- 4.2 Assertions and the L* nuclear configuration -- 4.3 Assertions and the L+H*+L L% configuration -- 4.4 Relative frequency of falling nuclear configurations -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References
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Towards automatic language processing and intonational labeling in European Portuguese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Related work -- 3. Targeted corpora -- 3.1 Corpora annotation -- 3.2 Automatic transcription -- 3.3 Manual/automatic transcript synchronization -- 4. Integrating prosodic information -- 4.1 Phone and pause duration -- 4.2 Marking the syllable boundaries and stress -- 4.3 Extracting pitch and energy -- 4.4 Producing the final transcript -- 4.5 Prosodic features -- 5. Discriminating between structural metadata events -- 5.1 Most recent results -- 5.2 Most salient features -- 6. Conclusions and future work -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Prosodic and gestural features distinguish the intention of pointing gestures in child-directed communication -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 2.1 Participants -- 2.2 Set-up and materials -- 2.2.1 Expressive game -- 2.2.2 Imperative game -- 2.2.3 Informative game -- 2.3 Procedure -- 2.3.1 Expressive game -- 2.3.2 Imperative game -- 2.3.3 Informative game -- 2.4 Data coding -- 2.4.1 Caregiver-infant interaction features -- 2.4.2 Prosodic features -- 2.4.3 Gesture features -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Caregiver-infant interaction features -- 3.2 Prosodic features -- 3.3 Gesture features -- 4. Discussion and conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Early Prosodic Development -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Intonation and prosodic phrasing in European Portuguese -- 3. Method -- 3.1 Participants -- 3.2 Materials -- 3.3 Corpus annotation and coding -- 3.4 Pragmatic analysis -- 3.5 Prosodic analysis -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Mean Length of Utterance, Word size and Lexical development -- 4.2 Intonational development -- 4.3 Development of prosodic phrasing -- 5. Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- A preliminary study of wh-questions in German and Spanish child language -- 1. Introduction
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1.1 The intonation of wh-questions: German -- 1.2 The intonation of wh-questions: Spanish -- 1.3 Intonation of German vs. Spanish wh-questions -- 1.4 Research on L1 acquisition of intonation -- 1.5 Research questions -- 2. Method -- 2.1 Participants -- 2.2 Data Analysis -- 2.3 Approaching the pragmatics of child wh-questions -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Types of wh-questions on the basis of the question word heading the utterance -- 3.2 Bilingual results -- 3.3 Comparing bilinguals vs. monolinguals -- 3.4 A cursory analysis of the pragmatics of child and adult wh-questions -- 3.5 Some representative transcriptions of prenuclear accents and nuclear pitch configurations -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- Assesment of Spanish prosody in clinical populations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ways of assessing prosody in Spanish-speaking clinical populations -- 3. The PEPS-C test -- 3.1 Rationales and methods of the test -- 3.2 Adaptation of PEPS-C for use in Spanish -- 3.3 Typical prosodic development and cross-linguistic differences between Spanish and English -- 4. Using PEPS-C in a clinical population: The case of WS -- 4.1 Studying language and prosody in WS -- 4.2 The assessment of prosody in Spanish-speaking individuals with WS -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Intonation and grammar in the visual-gestural modality -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Prosodic structure in sign languages -- 3. Intonation vs. morphosyntax -- 4. Conditionals and related structures in LSC -- 5. Back to the proper characterization of brow raise -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Index
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Print version Intonational grammar in Ibero-Romance Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016 ISBN 9789027258052
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Romanistik
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