Intonational phrasing in Romance and Germanic : cross-linguistic and bilingual studies / edited by Christoph Gabriel, Conxita Lleó.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gabriel, Christoph.

Lleó, Conxita.

Series:

Hamburg studies on multilingualism ; v. 10.

Hamburg studies on multilingualism ; v. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multilingualism--Europe.

Multilingualism.

Intonation (Phonetics).

Languages in contact--Europe.

Languages in contact.

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

viii, 237 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The present study compares the production of phonetic cues signaling phrasing boundaries by three monolingual Spanish, three monolingual German and three German-Spanish bilingual children at age 3;0, in broad-focus declaratives. The phonetic cues analyzed are F0-reset, intonation contours (falling vs. rising), pauses, final lengthening and glottal stop insertion (Peters 2006, for German; and Frota et al. 2007, for Spanish). Results show that both monolinguals and bilinguals signal prosodic phrase boundaries in ways that can be considered adult-like. However, bilinguals exhibit more individual differences. Whereas two bilingual children show differences between their two prosodic systems, which correspond to the values of the two adult languages, a third bilingual child signals cues by means of German values in both languages, German and Spanish.

Contents:

pt. 1. Phrasing across languages

pt. 2. Phrasing of languages in contact.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612976834

9781282976832

1282976834

9789027287380

9027287384

OCLC:

703436430