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 …

This paper presents a systematic comparison of various measures of f0 range in female
speakers of English and German. F0 range was analyzed along two dimensions, level (ie …

In this article we present a set of arguments in favor of having access to two levels of
prosodic representation, broad phonetic and phonological, and the motivations for …

The growing interest in the interfaces of prosody with other areas, notably pragmatics, has
led to an interesting cross-fertilization of methods such as the Discourse Completion Task …

This study investigates how epistemic stance is encoded and perceived in face-to-face
communication when language is regarded as comprised by speech and gesture. Two …

Catalan is a Romance language that is spoken by about 10 million people in a region that
lies within four adjacent European states, namely Andorra, Italy, France, and Spain. 1 Fig …

It is well known that speakers rely on prosodic and gestural features at the time of producing
and understanding verbal irony. Yet little research has examined (a) how gestures manifest …

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 …

Literature review on prosody reveals the lack of corpora for prosodic studies in Catalan and
Spanish. In this paper, we present a corpus intended to fill this gap. The corpus comprises …

Prosodic prominence is an umbrella term encompassing various related but conceptually
and functionally different phenomena such as phonological stress, paralinguistic emphasis …