Segmental and prosodic issues in romance phonology / edited by Pilar Prieto, Joan Mascaro, Maria Josep Sole.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Prieto i Vives, Pilar.

Mascaró, Joan.

Solé, Maria-Josep.

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, 282.

Current issues in linguistic theory ; 282

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance languages--Phonology--Congresses.

Romance languages.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

xv, 262 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This paper explores the concept of linguistic rhythm classes through a series of studies exploiting metrics designed to quantify speech rhythm. We compared the rhythm of 'syllable-timed' French and Spanish with that of 'stress-timed' Dutch and English, finding that rate-normalised metrics of vocalic interval variability (VarcoV and nPVI-V), together with a measure of the balance of vocalic and intervocalic intervals (%V), were the most discriminant between the two rhythm groups. The same metrics were also informative about the adaptation of speakers to rhythmically-similar (Dutch and English) or rhythmically-distinct (Spanish and English) second languages, and showed evidence of rhythmic gradience within accents of British English. Patterns of scores in all studies support the notion that rhythmic typology is not strictly categorical. A perceptual study found VarcoV to be the strongest predictor of the rating of a second language speaker's accent as native or non-native.

Contents:

Segmental and prosodic iss ues in Romance phonology

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

References

Part I. SEGMENTS AND PROCESSES

DETECTION OF LIAISON CONSONANTS IN SPEECH PROCESSING IN FRENCH

1. Introduction

2. Empirical evidence for a specific status of liaison consonants in speech perception

3. Further evidence on the specific perceptual status of liaison consonants

4. General discussion

PATTERNS OF VCV COARTICULATORY DIRECTION ACCORDING TO THE DAC MODEL

2. Degrees of articulatory constraint and coarticulatory sensitivity

3. Coarticulatory direction

4. Coarticulatory organization in speech production

5. Sound change

6. Conclusions

THE STABILITY OF PHONOLOGICAL FEATURES WITHIN AND ACROSS SEGMENTS

2. Co-occurring features: Nasality and frication

3. Contiguous frication and nasality

4. Experiment. Variations in articulatory overlap

5. Discussion and conclusions

6. General conclusions

PRE- AND POSTASPIRATED STOPS IN ANDALUSIAN SPANISH

2. The experiment

3. Spontaneous speech data

4. Discussion

PART 2. PROSODIC STRUCTURE

VARIATION IN THE INTONATION OF EXTRA-SENTENTIAL ELEMENTS

2. Experiment 1: comparative production study

3. Experiments 2 and 3: Right-dislocated phrases in Catalan

4. Summary and conclusion

Appendix

VOICING-DEPENDENT CLUSTER SIMPLIFICATION ASYMMETRIES IN SPANISH AND FRENCH

1. Asymmetries in cluster simplification

2. Hypotheses

3. Methodology

4. Cluster simplification strategies in Spanish and French

5. Formalizing the asymmetries

6. Voicing-dependent asymmetries and cluster simplification

Appendix: Stimuli.

THE PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY OF INTONATIONAL PHRASING IN ROMANCE

2. Background

3. Typology of boundary cues

4. Phonological choices

5. The phonetics of the H boundary tone

6. Conclusion

DISENTANGLING STRESS FROM ACCENT IN SPANISH

2. Methodology

3. Results

4. Discussion and conclusions

PART 3 ACQUISITION OF SEGMENTAL CONTRASTS AND PROSODY

ON THE EFFECT OF (MORPHO)PHONOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY IN THE EARLY ACQUISITION OF UNSTRESSED VOWELS IN EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE

2. The target system

3. The acquisition puzzle

4. The data

5. The results

6. Discussion and conclusions

THE PERCEPTION OF LEXICAL STRESS PATTERNS BY SPANISH AND CATALAN INFANTS

3. Stress discrimination studies: Spanish and Catalan infant data

2. Preference studies: Spanish and Catalan infant data

4. Final comments

LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELLING FOR FIRST- AND SECOND-LANGUAGE PERCEPTION DATA

2. Fitting a logistic regression model

3. Interpreting logistic regression coefficients

4. Conclusion

RHYTHMIC TYPOLOGY AND VARIATION IN FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGES

2. Production studies of speech rhythm

3. Rhythm metrics and the perception of native and non-native accent

SUBJECT INDEX

The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY.

Notes:

Selection of papers presented at a meeting held in Barcelona in June 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612154812

9781282154810

1282154818

9789027292698

9027292698

OCLC:

608486838