In both Spanish and Catalan, narrow contrastive focus and presentational broad focus in nuclear position have different pitch accent choices, namely a rising or a falling pitch accent, respectively. In words with final stress, narrow contrastive focus displays a rise-fall complex pitch gesture in the last syllable of the utterance. This article investigates the effects of the complexity of such a pitch pattern on the durational properties of the syllables in both languages when compared to the simpler falling pitch movement. The results of the production experiment reveal that, in general, the presence of a complex pitch pattern tends to have a lengthening effect on the target syllable. Yet we also find that some instances of this complex contour can be partially truncated, in which case it does not trigger lengthening. In sum, even though truncation and compression have been claimed to be language- and dialect-specific strategies (Ladd 1996; Grabe 1998; Grabe et al. 2000), in our data, truncation can be considered a speaker phonetic realization strategy that interacts with timing in such a way that there is a trade-off relationship between the two factors.
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Chahal, Dana & Sam Hellmuth
2014. The intonation of Lebanese and Egyptian Arabic. In Prosodic Typology II, ► pp. 365 ff.
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2014. Intonation in Basque. In Prosodic Typology II, ► pp. 405 ff.
Esteve-Gibert, Núria & Pilar Prieto
2013. Prosodic Structure Shapes the Temporal Realization of Intonation and Manual Gesture Movements. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 56:3 ► pp. 850 ff.
Fletcher, Janet
2014. Intonation and prosody in Dalabon. In Prosodic Typology II, ► pp. 252 ff.
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2014. The intonational phonology of European Portuguese. In Prosodic Typology II, ► pp. 6 ff.
Sónia Frota & Pilar Prieto
2015. Intonation in Romance,
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2014. Aspects of the intonational phonology of Jamaican Creole. In Prosodic Typology II, ► pp. 273 ff.
Gussenhoven, Carlos
2014. Complex intonation near the tonal isogloss in the Netherlands. In Prosodic Typology II, ► pp. 324 ff.
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2014. Typology of intonational phrasing in Japanese dialects. In Prosodic Typology II, ► pp. 464 ff.
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2014. Prosodic Typology II,
Sun-Ah Jun
2014. Prosodic typology: by prominence type, word prosody, and macro-rhythm. In Prosodic Typology II, ► pp. 520 ff.
Sun-Ah Jun
2014. Introduction. In Prosodic Typology II, ► pp. 1 ff.
Jun, Sun-Ah & Janet Fletcher
2014. Methodology of studying intonation: from data collection to data analysis. In Prosodic Typology II, ► pp. 493 ff.
Karlsson, Anastasia M.
2014. The intonational phonology of Mongolian. In Prosodic Typology II, ► pp. 187 ff.
Keane, Elinor
2014. The intonational phonology of Tamil. In Prosodic Typology II, ► pp. 118 ff.
Kelly, Niamh E.
2023. Phrase-final intonation adjustment in Lebanese Arabic. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 53:1 ► pp. 129 ff.
Khan, Sameer ud Dowla
2014. The intonational phonology of Bangladeshi Standard Bengali. In Prosodic Typology II, ► pp. 81 ff.
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2014. The intonational phonology of Catalan. In Prosodic Typology II, ► pp. 43 ff.
Rathcke, Tamara V.
2017. How Truncating Are ‘Truncating Languages'? Evidence from Russian and German. Phonetica 73:3-4 ► pp. 194 ff.
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2014. The marked accentuation pattern of Curaçao Papiamentu. In Prosodic Typology II, ► pp. 302 ff.
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2020. Grundzüge der sizilianischen Prosodie. Dialectologia et Geolinguistica 28:1 ► pp. 81 ff.
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2018. Melodic constructions in Spanish: Metrical structure determines the association properties of intonational tones. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 48:1 ► pp. 9 ff.
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2014. An Autosegmental-Metrical analysis of Georgian intonation. In Prosodic Typology II, ► pp. 154 ff.
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2014. Copyright Page. In Prosodic Typology II, ► pp. iv ff.
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2014. List of Abbreviations. In Prosodic Typology II, ► pp. xiii ff.
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2014. Preface. In Prosodic Typology II, ► pp. vii ff.
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2014. The Contributors. In Prosodic Typology II, ► pp. viii ff.
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