Segmental and prosodic issues in Romance phonology
Editors
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.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 282] 2007. xvi, 262 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Introduction | pp. vii–xv
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Part 1: Segments and processes
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Detection of liaison consonants in speech processing in French: Experimental data and theoretical implicationsNoël Nguyen, Sophie Wauquier, Leonardo Lancia and Betty Tuller | pp. 3–23
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Patterns of VCV coarticulatory direction according to the DAC modelDaniel Recasens | pp. 25–39
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The stability of phonological features within and across segments: The effect of nasalization on fricationMaria-Josep Solé | pp. 41–65
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Pre- and postaspirated stops in Andalusian SpanishFrancisco Torreira | pp. 67–82
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Part 2: Prosodic structure
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Variation in the intonation of extra-sentential elementsLluïsa Astruc-Aguilera and Francis Nolan | pp. 85–107
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Voicing-dependent cluster simplification asymmetries in Spanish and FrenchLaura Colantoni and Jeffrey Steele | pp. 109–129
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The phonetics and phonology of intonational phrasing in RomanceSónia Frota, Mariapaola D’Imperio, Gorka Elordieta, Pilar Prieto and Marina Vigário | pp. 131–153
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Disentangling stress from accent in Spanish: Production patterns of the stress contrast in deaccented syllablesMarta Ortega-Llebaria and Pilar Prieto | pp. 155–176
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Part 3: Acquisition of segmental contrasts and prosody
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On the effect of (morpho)phonological complexity in the early acquisition of unstressed vowels in European PortugueseM. João Freitas | pp. 179–197
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The perception of lexical stress patterns by Spanish and Catalan infantsFerran Pons and Laura Bosch | pp. 199–218
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Logistic regression modelling for first and second language perception dataGeoffrey-Stewart Morrison | pp. 219–236
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Rhythmic typology and variation in first and second languagesLaurence White and Sven L. Mattys | pp. 237–257
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Subject Index | pp. 259–262
“A very useful volume that makes it clear that laboratory phonology has come of age. The focus on Romance not only gives a thematic coherence to the volume, but is appropriate in a broader sense. A century ago, the existence of a well studied group of languages with a well documented common ancestor was a valuable resource in the development our understanding of language change. Today, the close study of the Romance languages promises to advance our understanding once again.”
Bob Ladd, The University of Edinburgh
“I congratulate the editors for putting this excellent volume together and for being bold and forward thinking in interpreting phonology as a broad discipline that concerns itself with all aspects of sound and souns systems.”
Joaguín Romero, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, in Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, Vol. 1.1 (2008)
“One of the most exciting developments in the field of linguistics in recent years has been the emergence of Laboratory Phonology. Both specialists in Romance languages and other scholars interested in laboratory phonology will want to read this important book.”
José Ignacio Hualde, University of Illinois
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFH: Phonetics, phonology
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General