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 …

When annotating a speech signal using an autosegmental-metrical model of intonation,
transcribers associate portions of the F 0 contour with labels from a finite inventory of tonal …

This paper investigates the relevance of three prosodic parameters (alignment, duration and
scaling) in the conveyance of contrastive focus in Catalan, Italian and Spanish. In particular …

In order to convey pragmatic functions, a speaker has to select an intonation contour (the
tune) in addition to the words that are to be spoken (the text). The tune and text are assumed …

The three Rhaeto-Romance varieties (Friulian, Dolomitic Ladin, and Romansh) have some
features in common, as well as some distinctive characteristics, both at the segmental and …

Intonation is the phonologically structured variation in phonetic features, primarily pitch, to
express phrase-level meanings. As in other speech sound domains, analyzing intonation …

In this article, we propose an analysis of the so-called echo wh-questions in situ in Italian at
syntax–prosody interface. We conduct a prosodic analysis under an experimental approach …

This paper investigates the realization of subjects in Broad and Narrow Focus constructions,
from both an acquisitional and a theoretical perspective. Specifically, NF structures include …

The article focuses on some intonational features of three Romance languages spoken in
northern Sardinia (Algherese Catalan, Logudorese Sardinian, and the Sardinian regional …

This paper discusses root phenomena in imperative clauses, assuming as diagnostics
conversational dynamics and the type of discourse categories that are admitted in their C …