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 …

Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: The main goal of this paper is to analyse
how social factors determine the degree of occurrence of intonational features of Basque in …

This paper sheds new light on the validity of claims in the syntactic literature concerning the
prosody of (a) hanging topic left-dislocations (HTLDs),(b) clitic left-dislocations (CLLDs) and …

In the past decades, we have advanced significantly in our knowledge of intonational
meaning, but few studies have tested experimentally the way in which discourse contexts …

Three different nuclear pitch accents can be found in Castilian Spanish polar interrogatives.
In addition to the 'canonical'low-rise pattern, there are two marked interrogative contours …

Research in the last few decades has examined the intersection between phonetics and
politeness in multiple languages. While most of the studies have analyzed the role of …

This paper investigates the role of intonation in the marking of directly-perceived information
in Majorcan Catalan polar questions. We conducted a perception experiment in which a total …

Intonation in Spanish communicates linguistic meaning, such as the contrast between
declarative and interrogative utterances, as well as extralinguistic information, such as the …

The present study analyzes the prosodic characteristics of the variety of Spanish in contact
with Basque (in the Basque Country, Spain). We focus on information-seeking yes/no …

Abstract Romera and Elordieta (2019) and Elordieta and Romera (2020) reported that most
information-seeking absolute interrogatives in the variety of Spanish spoken in the Basque …