Overview

This volume is a collection of cutting-edge research papers written by well-known researchers in the field of Romance phonetics and phonology. An important goal of this book is to bridge the gap between traditional Romance linguistics — with its long and rich tradition in data collection, cross-language comparison, and phonetic variation — and laboratory phonology work. The book is organized around three main themes: segmental processes, prosody, and the acquisition of segments and prosody. The various articles provide new empirical data on production, perception, sound change, first and second language learning, rhythm and intonation, presenting a state-of-the-art overview of research in laboratory phonology centred on Romance languages. The Romance data are used to test the predictions of a number of theoretical frameworks such as gestural phonology, exemplar models, generative phonology and optimality theory. The book will constitute a useful companion volume for phoneticians, phonologists and researchers investigating sound structure in Romance languages, and will serve to generate further interest in laboratory phonology.

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Author:   Pilar Prieto (ICREA & Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) ,  Joan Mascaró (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) ,  Maria-Josep Solé (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   282
Weight:   0.675kg
ISBN:  

9789027247971

ISBN 10:   9027247978
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   06 April 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Part 1: Segments and processes; 3. Detection of liaison consonants in speech processing in French: Experimental data and theoretical implications (by Nguyen, Noel); 4. Patterns of VCV coarticulatory direction according to the DAC model (by Recasens, Daniel); 5. The stability of phonological features within and across segments: The effect of nasalization on frication (by Sole, Maria-Josep); 6. Pre- and postaspirated stops in Andalusian Spanish (by Torreira, Francisco); 7. Part 2: Prosodic structure; 8. Variation in the intonation of extra-sentential elements (by Astruc-Aguilera, Lluisa); 9. Voicing-dependent cluster simplification asymmetries in Spanish and French (by Colantoni, Laura); 10. The phonetics and phonology of intonational phrasing in Romance (by Frota, Sonia); 11. Disentangling stress from accent in Spanish: Production patterns of the stress contrast in deaccented syllables (by Ortega-Llebaria, Marta); 12. Part 3: Acquisition of segmental contrasts and prosody; 13. On the effect of (morpho)phonological complexity in the early acquisition of unstressed vowels in European Portuguese (by Freitas, M. Joao); 14. The perception of lexical stress patterns by Spanish and Catalan infants (by Pons, Ferran); 15. Logistic regression modelling for first and second language perception data (by Morrison, Geoffrey-Stewart); 16. Rhythmic typology and variation in first and second languages (by White, Laurence); 17. Subject Index

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