This book offers the first comprehensive description of the prosody of nine Romance
languages that takes into account internal dialectal variation. Teams of experts examine the …

Argentinian Spanish intonation has been the focus of intensive research, at least since the
second half of the 20th century. Overall, this research has centred around one variety, ie …

During the last decade, several proposals have been made for modeling focus-induced
word order variation in Spanish, both in derivational and in optimality-theoretical …

This investigation focuses on the development of intonation patterns in four Catalan-
speaking children and two Spanish-speaking children between 0; 11 and 2; 4. Pitch …

This study investigates vocalic creak in connection to the demarcation of prosodic
boundaries in Spanish. Data from a picture task from 10 native Spanish speakers from …

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 …

We compare the extent to which Spanish heritage speakers and long-term immigrants in the
United States differ in their intonation of broad focus declaratives, and propose that the …

This paper employs the Autosegmental-Metrical model and the Spanish in the Tones and
Break Indices framework to examine nuclear (ie, final) statement and question intonation in …

Das Buch gibt Studierenden des Spanischen ein zugängliches Grundlagenwerk zur
Lautlehre ihres Studienfachs an die Hand, in dem bewährtes Basiswissen (zu dem auch der …

This dissertation examined the perception and production of intonation among 55 English-
native speakers of Spanish at three proficiency levels (low, high, and very high). Their …