It has been observed that a focused item in Korean is by and large realized with higher pitch,
longer duration and greater intensity. But it is not fully clear how much focus affects the pre …

This paper addresses two long-standing issues concerning focus: first, the question of
whether the focal interpretation is directly read off the prosodic structure of a sentence, or it is …

Previous studies on the prosodic marking of information status argue that Italian tends to
resist deaccentuation of given elements. In particular, Italian reportedly always accents post …

Recent literature on Spanish intonation assumes that deaccenting occurs when a lexical
item fails to cue stress via an F0 rise or some other pitch movement through its stressed …

The impact of various contrast relations on accent distribution is still unclear. The literature
suggests that there are at least three factors that are potentially important for the connection …

Previous studies report that Italian learners of German transfer their L1 prosody to their L2
when marking information status prosodically within noun phrases (NPs). However, these …

This paper discusses the properties of different types of subjects occurring in postverbal
position in Italian:(i) in situ focused subjects,(ii) marginalized, topic subjects,(iii) heavy …

In the present-day globalized world, communication in English takes place largely between
speakers from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and is characterized by a wide …

In questo lavoro abbiamo investigato le proprietà prosodiche (metriche e intonative) che
caratterizzano le frasi con Focus Contrastivo (FC) nella periferia sinistra della frase (Rizzi …

One of the central questions in psycholinguistic is understanding whether and how prosodic
phrase boundaries are used to resolve syntactic ambiguities in sentence processing. The …