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 …

The article discusses the main intonation features of Catalan, French, Italian, Occitan,
Portuguese, Raeto-Romance, Romanian, Sardinian, and Spanish, even though they have …

Sardinian is widely regarded as the most conservative Romance language. Its purported
conservativeness, though, does not change the fact that various innovative and peculiar …

Descrivere in qualche pagina la fonetica, la fonologia e la prosodia del sardo non è un
compito facile. Non si tratterà unicamente di riassumere gli studi precedenti, ma soprattutto …

Sardinian is documented in continuous texts from the 11th century onward, at a historical
period when the Republic of Pisa, at that time a maritime power, exerted its influence …

In this paper we provide a novel and unified formal analysis of the stress microvariation
found in verb–enclitic groupings in Barcelona Catalan, with stress stability, in Formentera …

In most Romance languages clitics are stress neutral: when they attach to a host, they have
no effect on stress placement: this is the case of Italian and Spanish. However, a small group …

In many Romance varieties, the verb in imperative verb+(postverbal) pronoun phrases
retains primary stress: Italian/Spanish:[kómpra]/[kómpra-melo]'buy!'/'buy me it!'. However, in …

The influence of standard Italian on the minor Romance languages spoken in Italy (ie the
Italian dialects) permeates all aspects of their grammar. In this article, I provide an example …

Majorcan Catalan postverbal pronominal elements are typically described as being
prominent due to stress shift from their host. This study sheds light on the prosodic …