This book is a revised version of my doctoral dissertation. I thank my advisor Rita Manzini
and Leonardo Savoia for giving me the chance of doing linguistics. In particular, I wish to …

This paper investigates the tonal structure of nuclear falls and rises in European Portuguese
declarative and question intonation. Declarative sentences, wh-questions and yes–no …

Prosody and syntax are assumed to interact strictly, both in terms of processing and of brain
activation. According to some authors, the interaction between prosody and other …

In this study we measured patterns of pitch alignment, pitch range and duration in relation to
broad and contrastive focus in Romanian. In declarative sentences with broad focus …

In questo lavoro abbiamo investigato le proprietà prosodiche (metriche e intonative) che
caratterizzano le frasi con Focus Contrastivo (FC) nella periferia sinistra della frase (Rizzi …

The vast majority of work on question formation examines interrogatives from the
perspective of just one single component of grammar, usually the syntax or the prosody. The …

La tesis se centra en el estudio de la interfaz entre pragmática y prosodia y su objetivo
principal consiste en establecer el papel que desempeña la entonación en la expresión de …

The article proposes a strictly structural hypothesis on the marking of information structure
(IS) by means of prosodic prominence, based on experimental data from spoken Italian …

It remains controversial whether children are able to process and integrate specific linguistic
cues in their mental model to the same extent as adults. In the present study, a sentence …

Since the appearance of Jackendoff's work in 1972, several studies have approached the
problem of the prosodic correlates of topicality. The central concern of many of these …