Intonational grammar in Ibero-Romance : approaches across linguistic subfields / edited by Meghan E. Armstrong, Nicholas C. Henriksen, Maria del Mar Vanrell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Armstrong, Meghan E., editor.

Henriksen, Nicholas Carl, editor.

Vanrell, Maria del Mar, editor.

Series:

Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics ; 6.

Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2213-3887 ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance languages--Phonetics--Intonation.

Romance languages.

Romance languages--Grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (413 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields is a volume of empirical research papers incorporating recent theoretical, methodological, and interdisciplinary advances in the field of intonation, as they relate to the Ibero-Romance languages. The volume brings together leading experts in Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish, as well as in the intonation of Spanish in contact situations. The common thread is that each paper examines a specific topic related to the intonation of at least one Ibero-Romance language, framing the analysis in an experimental setting. The novel findings of each chapter hinge on critical connections that are made between the study of intonation and its related fields of linguistic inquiry, including syntax, pragmatics, sociophonetics, language acquisition and special populations. In this sense, the volume expands the traditional scope of Ibero-Romance intonation, including in it work on signed languages (LSC), individuals with autism spectrum disorder and individuals with Williams Syndrome. This volume establishes the precedent for researchers and advanced students who wish to explore the complexities of Ibero-Romance intonation. It also serves as a showcase of the most up-to-date methodologies in intonational research.

Contents:

Intro

Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Introduction: Intonational grammar in Ibero-Romance

References

Foreword: Fundamental issues in Ibero-Romance intonational research

1. Introduction

2. Building blocks and meaning of intonational contours

3. Prominence and phrasing

4. Oral and visual information

5. Language contact

6. Acquisition of prosody

Task-related effects in the prosody of Spanish heritage speakers and long-term immigrants

2. Background

2.1 Phonological transfer

2.2 Phonological transfer in Spanish

3. Suprasegmental differences between English and Spanish

4. Research questions and Hypotheses

5. The study

5.1 Participants

5.2 Design and procedures

5.3 Data Analysis

6. Results

6.1 Reading task: "The North Wind and the Sun"

6.2 Narrative: "Little Red Riding Hood"

7. Discussion

8. Conclusions

Pitch accent tonal alignment in declarative sentences in the Spanish of the Basque Country

3. The experiment

3.1 The design

3.2 Illustrative data

4. Results

5. Discussion and conclusion

Appendix

Stylistic variation in the intonation of European Portuguese teenagers and adults

2. Methodology

2.1 Corpus and Data

2.2 Annotation procedures

2.3 Automatic feature extraction processes

3. Results

3.1 Overall results

3.2 Spontaneous vs. prepared presentations

3.2.1 Phrase levels

3.2.2 Nuclear accents

3.2.3 Boundary configuration

4. Discussion and conclusions

Acknowledgments

Focus and prosody in Spanish and Quechua

2. Focus structure and prosody in Quechua

3. Focus structure and prosody in Spanish.

4. Methodology

4.1 Participants

4.2 Materials

4.3 Data analysis

5. Results

5.1 Peninsular Spanish

5.2 Quechua

5.3 Bilingual Peruvian Spanish

6. Discussion and conclusion

Cost of the action and social distance affect the selection of question intonation in Catalan

2. Methods

2.1 Participants

2.2 Materials

2.3 Procedure

2.4 Data labeling

3.1 Morpho-syntactic and intonational strategies used with offers and requests

3.2 Use of intonation patterns with offering and requesting questions: Effects of Distance, Power and Cost

4. Conclusions

Intonation modeling in cross-linguistic research

2. The PENTA model for functional F0 contours leaning and generation

2.1 Analysis-by-synthesis modelling with PENTATrainer2

3. Methodology

3.1 The parallel corpus

3.2 Annotation

3.3 Learning

3.4 Synthesis

4.1 Signalling prominence in Portuguese

4.2 Signalling non-terminality in Portuguese

4.3 Signalling terminality in Portuguese

5. Discussion

6. Acknowledgments

Prosody and Emotion in Brazilian Portuguese

2. Data recording and analysis

2.1 Corpus description

2.2 Prosodic correlates of basic emotions

3. Perceptual analysis

3.1 Experimental setup

3.2 Results analysis for test A

3.2.1 Recognition of emotional portrayals

3.2.2 Classification of emotions

3.3 Results analysis for test B

3.3.1 Recognition of sentence modes

3.3.2 Classification of sentence modes

The Relation between Prosody and Syntax

2. The hypotheses

3. The boundary cues

4. Left-dislocations in Spanish

4.1 Methodology

4.1.1 Location, subjects, and recordings

4.1.2 Material.

4.1.2.1 HTLD. There are four conditions for HTLD: (a) pronoun vs. epithet: the resumptive element is either a strong pronoun (e.g. 6a) or an epithet (e.g. 6b)

(b) direct vs. as for: the dislocated element can be either bare (6a-d) or introduced by en cua

4.1.2.2 CLLD. The CLLD material consists of simple CLLD (8) and multiple CLLD (9). In simple CLLD, there is a single condition: short vs. long CLLD element (either 1ω (8a) or 2ω (8b), respectively). The material used for simple CLLD is identical to that i

4.1.2.3 LDw/oRP. The LDw/oRP material was constructed in an analogous manner to that for the CLLD. The materials consist of simple LDw/oRP (10) and multiple LDw/oRP (11). In the simple cases, the only condition was short vs. long dislocation (either 1ω (1

4.1.3 Procedure

4.2 Results

4.2.1 HTLD

4.2.2 CLLD

4.2.3 LDw/oRP

6. Conclusions

The intonational meaning of polar questions in Manchego Spanish spontaneous speech

2.1 Intonational form and meaning in Spanish

2.2 Elicitation methods

3. Methods

3.1 Speakers and recording protocol

3.2 Phonetic analysis

3.3 Pragmatic analysis

4.1 Intonational analysis

4.2 Pragmatic use of nuclear configurations

5.1 Frequency of use

5.2 Pragmatic use: L+H* H% and L+H* L%

5.3 Pragmatic use: L* H% and H+L* L%

6. Conclusion

Declarative utterances in Buenos Aires Spanish

2. Theoretical background

3. The data and methodology

4. Analysis of the data

4.1 Assertions and the H+L* L% nuclear configuration

4.2 Assertions and the L* nuclear configuration

4.3 Assertions and the L+H*+L L% configuration

4.4 Relative frequency of falling nuclear configurations

References.

Towards automatic language processing and intonational labeling in European Portuguese

2. Related work

3. Targeted corpora

3.1 Corpora annotation

3.2 Automatic transcription

3.3 Manual/automatic transcript synchronization

4. Integrating prosodic information

4.1 Phone and pause duration

4.2 Marking the syllable boundaries and stress

4.3 Extracting pitch and energy

4.4 Producing the final transcript

4.5 Prosodic features

5. Discriminating between structural metadata events

5.1 Most recent results

5.2 Most salient features

6. Conclusions and future work

Acknowledgements

Prosodic and gestural features distinguish the intention of pointing gestures in child-directed communication

2.2 Set-up and materials

2.2.1 Expressive game

2.2.2 Imperative game

2.2.3 Informative game

2.3.1 Expressive game

2.3.2 Imperative game

2.3.3 Informative game

2.4 Data coding

2.4.1 Caregiver-infant interaction features

2.4.2 Prosodic features

2.4.3 Gesture features

3.1 Caregiver-infant interaction features

3.2 Prosodic features

3.3 Gesture features

Early Prosodic Development

2. Intonation and prosodic phrasing in European Portuguese

3. Method

3.1 Participants

3.2 Materials

3.3 Corpus annotation and coding

3.4 Pragmatic analysis

3.5 Prosodic analysis

4.1 Mean Length of Utterance, Word size and Lexical development

4.2 Intonational development

4.3 Development of prosodic phrasing

A preliminary study of wh-questions in German and Spanish child language

1. Introduction.

1.1 The intonation of wh-questions: German

1.2 The intonation of wh-questions: Spanish

1.3 Intonation of German vs. Spanish wh-questions

1.4 Research on L1 acquisition of intonation

1.5 Research questions

2. Method

2.2 Data Analysis

2.3 Approaching the pragmatics of child wh-questions

3.1 Types of wh-questions on the basis of the question word heading the utterance

3.2 Bilingual results

3.3 Comparing bilinguals vs. monolinguals

3.4 A cursory analysis of the pragmatics of child and adult wh-questions

3.5 Some representative transcriptions of prenuclear accents and nuclear pitch configurations

4. Discussion

5. Conclusions

Assesment of Spanish prosody in clinical populations

2. Ways of assessing prosody in Spanish-speaking clinical populations

3. The PEPS-C test

3.1 Rationales and methods of the test

3.2 Adaptation of PEPS-C for use in Spanish

3.3 Typical prosodic development and cross-linguistic differences between Spanish and English

4. Using PEPS-C in a clinical population: The case of WS

4.1 Studying language and prosody in WS

4.2 The assessment of prosody in Spanish-speaking individuals with WS

Intonation and grammar in the visual-gestural modality

2. Prosodic structure in sign languages

3. Intonation vs. morphosyntax

4. Conditionals and related structures in LSC

5. Back to the proper characterization of brow raise

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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