This article reviews the evidence for rhythmic categorization that has emerged on the basis
of rhythm metrics, and argues that the metrics are unreliable predictors of rhythm which …

This paper presents a selective state of the art for the intonation of Standard and regional
varieties of Italian, drawing especially from Neapolitan Italian data. Production and …

This book presents a comprehensive, contrastive account of the phonological structures and
characteristics of Swedish. After an introduction on the history of the language and its …

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 book provides an overview of the phonology of Italian. It covers the different levels of
analysis from individual sounds up to the phrasal level. It focuses on the most widely …

In spite of burgeoning evidence that the orthographic forms (“spellings”) of second language
(L2) words affect L2 learners' pronunciation, little is known about the pronunciation of known …

The general goal of this study was to expand our understanding of what is meant by 'foreign
accent'. More specifically, it deals with the role of prosody (timing and melody), which has …

This paper examines vowel harmony initiated by a weak trigger. Height harmony in Veneto
Italian dialects, wherein a post-tonic high vowel triggers raising of preceding mid vowels …

Tonal targets can be defined in terms of two-dimensions, ie,“alignment” and “scaling”, where
alignment specifies the exact temporal implementation of tonal highs (H) and lows (L) …

The article describes the contrastive possibilities of alignment of high accents in three
Romance varieties, namely, Central Catalan, Neapolitan Italian, and Pisa Italian. The …