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Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
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Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance
Approaches across linguistic subfields
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Meghan E. Armstrong
Armstrong, Meghan E.
Meghan E.
Armstrong
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Nicholas Henriksen
Henriksen, Nicholas
Nicholas
Henriksen
University of Michigan
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Maria del Mar Vanrell
Mar Vanrell, Maria del
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Freie Universität Berlin
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Theoretical linguistics
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<i>Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields</i> 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.
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Overall, this volume showcases the innovative, and inspiring empirical research currently being done on Ibero-Romance intonation from multiple linguistic subfields. Individually, the papers are of considerable theoretical and methodological interest, and, taken together, they confirm the importance of a dialogue between different fields of linguistic inquiry in the study of intonation. Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance. Approaches across linguistic subfields thus constitutes a unique volume that establishes new avenues of research and methods that are extremely valuable to further our understanding of Ibero-Romance intonation in its multifaceted aspects.
Analía Gutiérrez, Área de Investigación, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, in Spanish in Context 16:2 (2019), pp. 298–306
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This is a valuable and timely book on both classic and emerging topics of research in the field of Ibero-Romance intonation. Its coverage of issues is impressive; the studies reported are likely to inspire innovative research. The book makes an excellent reading for graduate students and intonation researchers who wish to get insights into the rapidly growing field of Ibero-Romance intonation.
Aoju Chen, Utrecht University
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This rich anthology is a must-have volume for anyone working on intonation in the Iberian languages. Among other things, it illustrates the value of a common frame of reference: most of the papers presuppose autosegmental-metrical ideas about intonational form, which allows them to investigate intonational function - grammatical, pragmatic, social - in terms broadly comparable from chapter to chapter. Many of the papers also exemplify the rapid spread of experimental and corpus-based methods in linguistics today, which will interest a wide range of researchers in other areas as well.
D. R. Ladd, University of Edinburgh
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<i>Intonational grammar in Ibero-Romance</i> is an exceptionally rich collection that impinges on a broad cross-section of linguistic research. Among the languages studied are Spanish and Portuguese, both European and Latin American, Catalan, signed language, German, and contact environments (Basque, Quechua). An especially valuable feature of this volume is the inclusion of groups woefully underrepresented in intonational studies: heritage speakers, clinical and autistic populations, and children. Add to this stylistic and task-related phenomena, gestural accompaniment, and automatic language processing, and it is difficult to envision an approach to intonational phonology left behind by the authors of these essays. From neophytes to experts, linguists with an interest in suprasegmental phenomena will benefit from a careful reading of this cross-disciplinary scholarship.
John Lipski, Penn State University
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Introduction
Intonational grammar in Ibero-Romance
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Meghan E. Armstrong
Armstrong, Meghan E.
Meghan E.
Armstrong
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Nicholas Henriksen
Henriksen, Nicholas
Nicholas
Henriksen
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Maria del Mar Vanrell
Mar Vanrell, Maria del
Maria
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Mar Vanrell
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Foreword
Fundamental issues in Ibero-Romance intonational research
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José Ignacio Hualde
Hualde, José Ignacio
José Ignacio
Hualde
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Part I. Intonation, variation and contact
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Task-related effects in the prosody of Spanish heritage speakers and long-term immigrants
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Laura Colantoni
Colantoni, Laura
Laura
Colantoni
University of Toronto
2
A01
Alejandro Cuza
Cuza, Alejandro
Alejandro
Cuza
Purdue University
3
A01
Natalia Mazzaro
Mazzaro, Natalia
Natalia
Mazzaro
University of Texas-El Paso
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heritage speakers
20
long term immigrants
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Spanish intonation
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task effects
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We compare the extent to which Spanish heritage speakers and long-term immigrants in the United States differ in their intonation of broad focus declaratives, and propose that the between-group variability is motivated by the specific language learning/literacy conditions of each group. Results from a phonetically balanced reading task and an elicited narrative revealed significant differences between the two groups in their realization of pitch accents in read speech but not in the narratives. These results suggest that less-controlled tasks are more representative of the bilingual status of adult bilinguals, and that metalinguistic tasks, such as reading aloud, should be implemented with caution, crucially among Spanish heritage speakers who are in a semi-diglossic situation in the United States.
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Pitch accent tonal alignment in declarative sentences in the Spanish of the Basque Country
A study of language contact
1
A01
Gorka Elordieta
Elordieta, Gorka
Gorka
Elordieta
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
2
A01
Aritz Irurtzun
Irurtzun, Aritz
Aritz
Irurtzun
CNRS-IKER
20
alignment
20
Basque
20
language-contact
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pitch-accent
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Spanish
01
Previous studies like Elordieta (2003) and Elordieta and Calleja (2005) suggested that the fact that speakers of Lekeitio Spanish produced systematic L+H pitch accents could be due to partial transfer from the H+L pitch accent of their native Basque dialect (transfer of H). Here, we analyse three new Basque Spanish populations: (i) L1 Basque speakers of a Basque dialect with rising accents (Goierri), (ii) monolingual Spanish speakers from Donostia (a city of intense Basque/Spanish language contact), and (iii) monolingual Spanish speakers from Bilbao (a Spanish-prominent city). Our results show consistent posttonic peaks in all three varieties, which we argue further strengthens the hypothesis that the early alignments of Lekeitio Spanish are due to transfer from the Basque spoken there.
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Stylistic variation in the intonation of European Portuguese teenagers and adults
1
A01
Ana Isabel Mata
Mata, Ana Isabel
Ana Isabel
Mata
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (FLUL)
2
A01
Helena Moniz
Moniz, Helena
Helena
Moniz
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (FLUL)
3
A01
Fernando Batista
Batista, Fernando
Fernando
Batista
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores – Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa (INESC-ID)
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European Portuguese
20
intonation
20
stylistic variation
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teenagers and adults
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The present study aims to investigate intonation contours in phrase-final position, in a corpus of spontaneous and prepared unscripted presentations from teenagers (14–15 years old) and adults, collected in a school context. Taking into account the differences between phrasing levels (ToBI breaks 3 and 4), we show that the frequency of low/falling vs. high/rising contours – mainly (H+)L L and (L+)H H – varies across oral presentation types. Adults and teenagers follow distinct strategies, though cross-gender differences are also a source of variation. We interpret these changes as an adaptation effect to the speaking styles specifically required at school, which call for the speaker′s effort to speak clearly and to keep the listeners attention, and ultimately as “intelligibility-oriented” speaking style changes.
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Focus and prosody in Spanish and Quechua
Insights from an interactive task
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A01
Antje Muntendam
Muntendam, Antje
Antje
Muntendam
Radboud University
2
A01
Francisco Torreira
Torreira, Francisco
Francisco
Torreira
Florida State University
20
bilingualism
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prosody
20
Quechua
20
Spanish
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This paper reports the results of a study on the prosodic marking of broad and contrastive focus in three language varieties of which two are in contact: bilingual Peruvian Spanish, Quechua and Peninsular Spanish. An interactive communicative task revealed that the prosodic marking of contrastive focus was limited in all three language varieties. No systematic correspondence was observed between specific contour/accent types and focus, and the phonetic marking of contrastive focus was weak and restricted to phrase-final position. Interestingly, we identified two contours for bilingual Peruvian Spanish that were present in Quechua, but not in Peninsular Spanish, providing evidence for a prosodic transfer from Quechua to Spanish in Quechua-Spanish bilinguals.
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Part II. Intonational modeling, syntax and pragmatics
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Cost of the action and social distance affect the selection of question intonation in Catalan
1
A01
Lluïsa Astruc-Aguilera
Astruc-Aguilera, Lluïsa
Lluïsa
Astruc-Aguilera
The Open University
2
A01
Maria del Mar Vanrell
Mar Vanrell, Maria del
Maria
del
Mar Vanrell
Freie Universität Berlin
3
A01
Pilar Prieto
Prieto, Pilar
Pilar
Prieto
ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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intonation
20
offers
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politeness
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requests
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This chapter examines how politeness in offers and requests is encoded by intonation in Catalan, a language which uses two distinct intonational pitch contours for unbiased yes-no questions. Fifteen Central Catalan speakers participated in a Discourse Completion Task that elicited offers and requests in scenarios controlled for level of social distance, power, and cost of the action. The data were prosodically and pragmatically analyzed. The results showed that cost of the action and social distance have significant effects on intonation choices: speakers used rising pitch pattern more frequently with high-level than with low-level cost offers and requests, and also with high-level distance requests. In general, the falling pattern tended to be used more frequently with offers. The study shows that politeness factors need to be taken into account in the description of intonation choices across languages.
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Intonation modeling in cross-linguistic research
1
A01
Plínio A. Barbosa
Barbosa, Plínio A.
Plínio A.
Barbosa
State University of Campinas, Brazil
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Brazilian Portuguese
20
crosslinguistic comparison
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European Portuguese
20
intonational modeling
01
This chapter uses the analysis-by-synthesis technique in the framework of the PENTA model to find general patterns of F0 associated with the functions of boundary marking and prominence in two varieties of Portuguese. Both European and Brazilian Portuguese intonation patterns are investigated in two speaking styles, reading and storytelling, within the domain of the phonological word with four speakers per variety. Results show that, despite some individual differences, both varieties mark the terminal boundaries with sharp falling contours and realise non-terminal boundaries with rising contours in storytelling and rising and falling contours in reading. In both speaking styles prominence is realised by falling contours in EP against rising contours in BP reading and both directions in BP storytelling.
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Prosody and Emotion in Brazilian Portuguese
1
A01
João Antônio de Moraes
de Moraes, João Antônio
João Antônio
de Moraes
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – CNPq
2
A01
Albert Rilliard
Rilliard, Albert
Albert
Rilliard
LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France
20
acoustic and perceptual correlates
20
audiovisual prosody
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emotions
20
face-to-face communication
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sentence mode
01
This study addresses the production and perception of four emotions (anger, joy, sadness, and fear) performed in Brazilian Portuguese sentences of different modes: declarative (assertions), interrogative (yes/no questions), and imperative (orders). The results of an acoustic analysis and of perception tests are presented. Fundamental frequency and duration are both modified by the expression of emotions and sentence modes. Expressions of emotions mostly affect the mean register, while sentence modes mostly affect the shape of the intonation contour. The relative perceptual importance of audio and visual cues in the recognition of emotions and modes is discussed: audio cues carry less information than visual ones to recognize emotions, but more to recognize modes.
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The Relation between Prosody and Syntax: The case of different types of Left-Dislocations in Spanish
The
Relation between Prosody and Syntax: The case of different types of Left-Dislocations in Spanish
1
A01
Ingo Feldhausen
Feldhausen, Ingo
Ingo
Feldhausen
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt & UMR 7018-Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, Paris 3
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Clitic Left-Dislocation
20
edge tones
20
Hanging Topic Left-Dislocation
20
intonation
20
prosodic phrasing
20
Spanish
01
This paper sheds new light on the validity of claims in the syntactic literature concerning the prosody of (a) <i>hanging topic left-dislocations (HTLDs)</i>, (b) <i>clitic left-dislocations (CLLDs) </i>and (c)<i> left-dislocations without a resumptive pronoun</i> in Spanish. It is typically assumed that HTLDs but not CLLDs are obligatorily marked by a pause. However, the results of a production experiment show that these constructions have similar intonational patterns. LDs are tonally realized by a rising nuclear configuration and may be followed by a pause (more often in HTLDs than in the other constructions, however). A sharp contrast exists between HTLDs in interrogatives and declaratives; only the former are obligatorily realized with a pause and may have a low edge tone.
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The intonational meaning of polar questions in Manchego Spanish spontaneous speech
The
intonational meaning of polar questions in Manchego Spanish spontaneous speech
1
A01
Nicholas Henriksen
Henriksen, Nicholas
Nicholas
Henriksen
University of Michigan
2
A01
Meghan E. Armstrong
Armstrong, Meghan E.
Meghan E.
Armstrong
University of Massachusetts Amherst
3
A01
Lorenzo García-Amaya
García-Amaya, Lorenzo
Lorenzo
García-Amaya
University of Michigan
20
intonation
20
Manchego Spanish
20
polar questions
20
pragmatics
01
Previous work on Spanish intonation has not sufficiently addressed the formmeaning patterns that govern pragmatic use in spontaneous interaction. This study is an initial attempt to examine the pragmatic use of polar question intonation in Manchego Spanish conversational speech. First, we document L+H H% and L+H L% as the most common nuclear configurations. Second, we argue that for these two configurations, speakers communicate a layer of meaning in addition to interrogativity: L+H H% signals speaker-attributed thoughts, whereas L+H L% signals other-attributed thoughts. These results constitute empirical support for Escandell-Vidal’s (1998) Relevance Theory account on polar question intonation in Peninsular Spanish. One contribution of our empirical approach is that we show that L H% configurations are especially rare in spontaneous speech.
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226
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Article
14
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Declarative utterances in Buenos Aires Spanish
1
A01
Leopoldo Omar Labastía
Labastía, Leopoldo Omar
Leopoldo Omar
Labastía
Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina, Proyecto SYPCE (Semántica Procedimental y Contenido Explícito) III & Proyecto FFI2015-63497-P (La interfaz Semántica / Pragmática y la resolución de los desajustes interpretativos)
20
falling intonation
20
intonation
20
pragmatics
20
relevance
01
This chapter aims to explore an aspect of the interface between prosody and pragmatics by examining the contribution of intonation to the process of utterance interpretation in spontaneous speech. Buenos Aires Spanish has three nuclear pitch accent + boundary tone configurations associated with declarative utterances: (a) high-falling (H+L<i> </i>L%); (b) low (L<i> </i>L%); (c) risingfalling (L+H+L L%). All three can be used to assert a given state of affairs, but each encodes a different pragmatic meaning, associated with the strength and emphasis with which the state of affairs is communicated and with the type of cognitive effect to be achieved by the utterance. The prosodic analysis is carried out using the Autosegmental-Metrical approach, and the pragmatic analysis follows Relevance Theory.
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248
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15
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Towards automatic language processing and intonational labeling in European Portuguese
1
A01
Helena Moniz
Moniz, Helena
Helena
Moniz
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
2
A01
Fernando Batista
Batista, Fernando
Fernando
Batista
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores – Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa
3
A01
Ana Isabel Mata
Mata, Ana Isabel
Ana Isabel
Mata
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
4
A01
Isabel Trancoso
Trancoso, Isabel
Isabel
Trancoso
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores – Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa
20
European Portuguese
20
prosody
20
speech processing
20
structural metadata
01
This work describes a framework that encompasses multi-layered linguistic information, focusing on prosodic features (pitch, energy, and tempo patterns), uses such features to distinguish between sentence-form types and disfluency/fluency repairs, and contributes to the characterization of intonational patterns of spontaneous and prepared speech in European Portuguese. Different machine learning methods have been applied for discriminating between structural metadata events, both in university lectures and in map-task dialogues, containing large amounts of spontaneous speech. Results show that prosodic features, and particularly a set of very informative features, are crucial to distinguish between sentence-form types and disfluency/fluency repair events. This is the first work for European Portuguese on both fully automatic processing of multi-layered linguistically description of spoken corpora and intonational labeling.
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Part III. Intonation, acquisition and special populations
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276
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Prosodic and gestural features distinguish the intention of pointing gestures in child-directed communication
1
A01
Núria Esteve-Gibert
Esteve-Gibert, Núria
Núria
Esteve-Gibert
Department of Translation and Language Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
2
A01
Ulf Liszkowski
Liszkowski, Ulf
Ulf
Liszkowski
Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Hamburg, Germany
3
A01
Pilar Prieto
Prieto, Pilar
Pilar
Prieto
ICREA (Institut Català de Recerca i Estudis Avançats)
20
child-directed communication
20
intention understanding
20
pointing gestures
20
prosody
01
Previous literature had found that infants rely on the social-contextual information to understand the pragmatic meaning of a pointing gesture. Our study investigates the prosodic and gesture features accompanying a pointing gesture that infants may also use to infer its meaning. Nine caregiver-infant dyads played three games designed to elicit pointing acts with either an expressive, imperative, or informative pragmatic meaning. Results show that in all pragmatic situations caregivers mostly combine pointing gestures with speech to direct the infants attention to an object, and that in child-directed communication specific prosodic (intonation contour, pitch range, and mean syllable duration) and gesture features (hand shape, gesture duration, and the gesture’s lexical affiliate) indicate the pragmatic meaning of a pointing gesture.
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294
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Article
18
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Prosody in Portuguese Children with HighFunctioning Autism
1
A01
Marisa Filipe
Filipe, Marisa
Marisa
Filipe
Universidade do Porto
2
A01
Sónia Frota
Frota, Sónia
Sónia
Frota
Universidade de Lisboa
3
A01
Adrienne Villagomez
Villagomez, Adrienne
Adrienne
Villagomez
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
4
A01
Selene G. Vicente
Vicente, Selene G.
Selene G.
Vicente
Universidade do Porto
20
autism
20
high-functioning autism
20
Portuguese
20
prosodic impairments
20
prosody
01
There is a lack of research investigating prosody in Portuguese children with autism. In this chapter, we analyze 15 Portuguese children aged 5–9 years with high-functioning autism (HFA) in comparison to their typically developing peers. We also evaluated nonverbal intelligence, vocabulary, phonological awareness, pragmatics, attention, and executive functions. Statistical analyses, using pairwise matching of nonverbal intelligence and chronological age, suggested that children with HFA have difficulties perceiving and imitating prosodic patterns, as well as difficulties understanding or effectively producing some of the communicative functions conveyed by prosody. Findings suggested a significant positive correlation between prosody and other language domains. Additionally, two case studies were conducted to further discuss the prosodic impairments.
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Early Prosodic Development
Emerging intonation and phrasing in European Portuguese
1
A01
Sónia Frota
Frota, Sónia
Sónia
Frota
Universidade de Lisboa
2
A01
Marisa Cruz
Cruz, Marisa
Marisa
Cruz
Universidade de Lisboa
3
A01
Nuno Matos
Matos, Nuno
Nuno
Matos
Universidade de Lisboa
4
A01
Marina Vigário
Vigário, Marina
Marina
Vigário
Universidade de Lisboa
20
early production
20
intonation
20
prosodic development
20
prosodic phrasing
01
Studies of emerging prosody from the word to the phrase, integrating various sources of evidence, are scarce, and our understanding of the pathways of prosodic development is still very limited. An investigation of emerging intonation and prosodic phrasing was undertaken on the basis of production data on intonation and duration patterns from the speech of two European Portuguese children between 1;00 and 2;04. The results show that both the development of intonation and phrasing were found to precede the onset of combinatorial speech, and to coincide in time with critical points in lexical development. Prosodic phrasing evolved in three steps, by the unfolding of key prosodic levels. Implications of these results are discussed in relation to early prosodic development across languages.
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A preliminary study of wh-questions in German and Spanish child language
A
preliminary study of wh-questions in German and Spanish child language
1
A01
Conxita Lleó
Lleó, Conxita
Conxita
Lleó
University of Hamburg
20
alignment
20
bilingual
20
boundary tones (BT)
20
L1 acquisition
20
pitch accents
20
scaling
20
wh-questions
01
This article presents a preliminary study of L1 acquisition of <i>wh</i>-questions in German and Spanish. According to traditional descriptions, neutral informationseeking <i>wh</i>-questions show similar contours in both languages, although there are cross-linguistic differences in scaling and alignment as well as different pitch accents, formalized in the Autosegmental-Metrical model of intonation. <i>Wh</i>questions uttered by two 3-year-old German-Spanish bilinguals are compared to those produced by monolingual children, and adults. Analyses show that most aspects of such utterances seem to already be acquired at the age of 3;0. However, bilinguals exhibit much variation, which reveals cross-linguistic interaction. Moreover, 3-year-olds produce many rising contours in German, only a few of which can be characterized as non-neutral.
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Assessment of Spanish prosody in clinical populations
The case of Williams syndrome
1
A01
Pastora Martínez-Castilla
Martínez-Castilla, Pastora
Pastora
Martínez-Castilla
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia/Independent researcher
2
A01
Sue Peppé
Peppé, Sue
Sue
Peppé
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia/Independent researcher
20
clinical populations
20
intonation
20
prosody assessment
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test
20
Williams syndrome
01
We begin by reviewing ways of assessing prosody in Spanish-speaking individuals with disorders of different aetiologies. In Spanish, only one test has been specifically designed for prosody assessment in clinical populations: The Iberian Spanish version of the <i>Profiling Elements of Prosody in Speech-Communication</i> (PEPS-C) test. Building on our previous work, we describe the test and summarize results found with typically developing Spanish and Englishspeaking individuals. The use of the Spanish PEPS-C test in clinical populations is exemplified with the case of Williams syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder. By discussing the relevance of the results found both in Williams syndrome and typical development we highlight developmental patterns and cross-linguistic differences that should be taken into account when assessing Spanish prosody in clinical settings.
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Intonation and grammar in the visual-gestural modality
A case study on conditionals in Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
1
A01
Josep Quer
Quer, Josep
Josep
Quer
ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra
20
brow raise
20
Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
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conditional sentences
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Although certain facial nonmanual articulations in sign languages have been analyzed as overt markers of a syntactic domain or semantic scope, an alternative view defends that they genuinely signal prosodic domains. Moreover, they have been claimed to convey discrete general meanings. I address the open question of the proper characterization of nonmanual domain markers by studying brow raise in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). It marks conditional antecedents and other dependent clauses in the left periphery. This study aims to determine whether LSC conditionals offer new evidence in favor of one of the two types of competing analyses, and concludes that brow raise is a portmanteau marker of syntactic integration of the dependent clause into the matrix, potentially layered with other nonmanuals.
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<i>Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields</i> 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.
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Overall, this volume showcases the innovative, and inspiring empirical research currently being done on Ibero-Romance intonation from multiple linguistic subfields. Individually, the papers are of considerable theoretical and methodological interest, and, taken together, they confirm the importance of a dialogue between different fields of linguistic inquiry in the study of intonation. Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance. Approaches across linguistic subfields thus constitutes a unique volume that establishes new avenues of research and methods that are extremely valuable to further our understanding of Ibero-Romance intonation in its multifaceted aspects.
Analía Gutiérrez, Área de Investigación, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, in Spanish in Context 16:2 (2019), pp. 298–306
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This is a valuable and timely book on both classic and emerging topics of research in the field of Ibero-Romance intonation. Its coverage of issues is impressive; the studies reported are likely to inspire innovative research. The book makes an excellent reading for graduate students and intonation researchers who wish to get insights into the rapidly growing field of Ibero-Romance intonation.
Aoju Chen, Utrecht University
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This rich anthology is a must-have volume for anyone working on intonation in the Iberian languages. Among other things, it illustrates the value of a common frame of reference: most of the papers presuppose autosegmental-metrical ideas about intonational form, which allows them to investigate intonational function - grammatical, pragmatic, social - in terms broadly comparable from chapter to chapter. Many of the papers also exemplify the rapid spread of experimental and corpus-based methods in linguistics today, which will interest a wide range of researchers in other areas as well.
D. R. Ladd, University of Edinburgh
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<i>Intonational grammar in Ibero-Romance</i> is an exceptionally rich collection that impinges on a broad cross-section of linguistic research. Among the languages studied are Spanish and Portuguese, both European and Latin American, Catalan, signed language, German, and contact environments (Basque, Quechua). An especially valuable feature of this volume is the inclusion of groups woefully underrepresented in intonational studies: heritage speakers, clinical and autistic populations, and children. Add to this stylistic and task-related phenomena, gestural accompaniment, and automatic language processing, and it is difficult to envision an approach to intonational phonology left behind by the authors of these essays. From neophytes to experts, linguists with an interest in suprasegmental phenomena will benefit from a careful reading of this cross-disciplinary scholarship.
John Lipski, Penn State University
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Introduction
Intonational grammar in Ibero-Romance
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Meghan E. Armstrong
Armstrong, Meghan E.
Meghan E.
Armstrong
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Nicholas Henriksen
Henriksen, Nicholas
Nicholas
Henriksen
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Maria del Mar Vanrell
Mar Vanrell, Maria del
Maria
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Mar Vanrell
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Fundamental issues in Ibero-Romance intonational research
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José Ignacio Hualde
Hualde, José Ignacio
José Ignacio
Hualde
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Part I. Intonation, variation and contact
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Task-related effects in the prosody of Spanish heritage speakers and long-term immigrants
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Laura Colantoni
Colantoni, Laura
Laura
Colantoni
University of Toronto
2
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Alejandro Cuza
Cuza, Alejandro
Alejandro
Cuza
Purdue University
3
A01
Natalia Mazzaro
Mazzaro, Natalia
Natalia
Mazzaro
University of Texas-El Paso
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heritage speakers
20
long term immigrants
20
Spanish intonation
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task effects
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We compare the extent to which Spanish heritage speakers and long-term immigrants in the United States differ in their intonation of broad focus declaratives, and propose that the between-group variability is motivated by the specific language learning/literacy conditions of each group. Results from a phonetically balanced reading task and an elicited narrative revealed significant differences between the two groups in their realization of pitch accents in read speech but not in the narratives. These results suggest that less-controlled tasks are more representative of the bilingual status of adult bilinguals, and that metalinguistic tasks, such as reading aloud, should be implemented with caution, crucially among Spanish heritage speakers who are in a semi-diglossic situation in the United States.
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Pitch accent tonal alignment in declarative sentences in the Spanish of the Basque Country
A study of language contact
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Gorka Elordieta
Elordieta, Gorka
Gorka
Elordieta
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
2
A01
Aritz Irurtzun
Irurtzun, Aritz
Aritz
Irurtzun
CNRS-IKER
20
alignment
20
Basque
20
language-contact
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pitch-accent
20
Spanish
01
Previous studies like Elordieta (2003) and Elordieta and Calleja (2005) suggested that the fact that speakers of Lekeitio Spanish produced systematic L+H pitch accents could be due to partial transfer from the H+L pitch accent of their native Basque dialect (transfer of H). Here, we analyse three new Basque Spanish populations: (i) L1 Basque speakers of a Basque dialect with rising accents (Goierri), (ii) monolingual Spanish speakers from Donostia (a city of intense Basque/Spanish language contact), and (iii) monolingual Spanish speakers from Bilbao (a Spanish-prominent city). Our results show consistent posttonic peaks in all three varieties, which we argue further strengthens the hypothesis that the early alignments of Lekeitio Spanish are due to transfer from the Basque spoken there.
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Stylistic variation in the intonation of European Portuguese teenagers and adults
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Ana Isabel Mata
Mata, Ana Isabel
Ana Isabel
Mata
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (FLUL)
2
A01
Helena Moniz
Moniz, Helena
Helena
Moniz
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (FLUL)
3
A01
Fernando Batista
Batista, Fernando
Fernando
Batista
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores – Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa (INESC-ID)
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European Portuguese
20
intonation
20
stylistic variation
20
teenagers and adults
01
The present study aims to investigate intonation contours in phrase-final position, in a corpus of spontaneous and prepared unscripted presentations from teenagers (14–15 years old) and adults, collected in a school context. Taking into account the differences between phrasing levels (ToBI breaks 3 and 4), we show that the frequency of low/falling vs. high/rising contours – mainly (H+)L L and (L+)H H – varies across oral presentation types. Adults and teenagers follow distinct strategies, though cross-gender differences are also a source of variation. We interpret these changes as an adaptation effect to the speaking styles specifically required at school, which call for the speaker′s effort to speak clearly and to keep the listeners attention, and ultimately as “intelligibility-oriented” speaking style changes.
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Focus and prosody in Spanish and Quechua
Insights from an interactive task
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A01
Antje Muntendam
Muntendam, Antje
Antje
Muntendam
Radboud University
2
A01
Francisco Torreira
Torreira, Francisco
Francisco
Torreira
Florida State University
20
bilingualism
20
prosody
20
Quechua
20
Spanish
01
This paper reports the results of a study on the prosodic marking of broad and contrastive focus in three language varieties of which two are in contact: bilingual Peruvian Spanish, Quechua and Peninsular Spanish. An interactive communicative task revealed that the prosodic marking of contrastive focus was limited in all three language varieties. No systematic correspondence was observed between specific contour/accent types and focus, and the phonetic marking of contrastive focus was weak and restricted to phrase-final position. Interestingly, we identified two contours for bilingual Peruvian Spanish that were present in Quechua, but not in Peninsular Spanish, providing evidence for a prosodic transfer from Quechua to Spanish in Quechua-Spanish bilinguals.
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Part II. Intonational modeling, syntax and pragmatics
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Cost of the action and social distance affect the selection of question intonation in Catalan
1
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Lluïsa Astruc-Aguilera
Astruc-Aguilera, Lluïsa
Lluïsa
Astruc-Aguilera
The Open University
2
A01
Maria del Mar Vanrell
Mar Vanrell, Maria del
Maria
del
Mar Vanrell
Freie Universität Berlin
3
A01
Pilar Prieto
Prieto, Pilar
Pilar
Prieto
ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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intonation
20
offers
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politeness
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requests
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This chapter examines how politeness in offers and requests is encoded by intonation in Catalan, a language which uses two distinct intonational pitch contours for unbiased yes-no questions. Fifteen Central Catalan speakers participated in a Discourse Completion Task that elicited offers and requests in scenarios controlled for level of social distance, power, and cost of the action. The data were prosodically and pragmatically analyzed. The results showed that cost of the action and social distance have significant effects on intonation choices: speakers used rising pitch pattern more frequently with high-level than with low-level cost offers and requests, and also with high-level distance requests. In general, the falling pattern tended to be used more frequently with offers. The study shows that politeness factors need to be taken into account in the description of intonation choices across languages.
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Intonation modeling in cross-linguistic research
1
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Plínio A. Barbosa
Barbosa, Plínio A.
Plínio A.
Barbosa
State University of Campinas, Brazil
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Brazilian Portuguese
20
crosslinguistic comparison
20
European Portuguese
20
intonational modeling
01
This chapter uses the analysis-by-synthesis technique in the framework of the PENTA model to find general patterns of F0 associated with the functions of boundary marking and prominence in two varieties of Portuguese. Both European and Brazilian Portuguese intonation patterns are investigated in two speaking styles, reading and storytelling, within the domain of the phonological word with four speakers per variety. Results show that, despite some individual differences, both varieties mark the terminal boundaries with sharp falling contours and realise non-terminal boundaries with rising contours in storytelling and rising and falling contours in reading. In both speaking styles prominence is realised by falling contours in EP against rising contours in BP reading and both directions in BP storytelling.
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Prosody and Emotion in Brazilian Portuguese
1
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João Antônio de Moraes
de Moraes, João Antônio
João Antônio
de Moraes
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – CNPq
2
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Albert Rilliard
Rilliard, Albert
Albert
Rilliard
LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France
20
acoustic and perceptual correlates
20
audiovisual prosody
20
emotions
20
face-to-face communication
20
sentence mode
01
This study addresses the production and perception of four emotions (anger, joy, sadness, and fear) performed in Brazilian Portuguese sentences of different modes: declarative (assertions), interrogative (yes/no questions), and imperative (orders). The results of an acoustic analysis and of perception tests are presented. Fundamental frequency and duration are both modified by the expression of emotions and sentence modes. Expressions of emotions mostly affect the mean register, while sentence modes mostly affect the shape of the intonation contour. The relative perceptual importance of audio and visual cues in the recognition of emotions and modes is discussed: audio cues carry less information than visual ones to recognize emotions, but more to recognize modes.
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The Relation between Prosody and Syntax: The case of different types of Left-Dislocations in Spanish
The
Relation between Prosody and Syntax: The case of different types of Left-Dislocations in Spanish
1
A01
Ingo Feldhausen
Feldhausen, Ingo
Ingo
Feldhausen
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt & UMR 7018-Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, Paris 3
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Clitic Left-Dislocation
20
edge tones
20
Hanging Topic Left-Dislocation
20
intonation
20
prosodic phrasing
20
Spanish
01
This paper sheds new light on the validity of claims in the syntactic literature concerning the prosody of (a) <i>hanging topic left-dislocations (HTLDs)</i>, (b) <i>clitic left-dislocations (CLLDs) </i>and (c)<i> left-dislocations without a resumptive pronoun</i> in Spanish. It is typically assumed that HTLDs but not CLLDs are obligatorily marked by a pause. However, the results of a production experiment show that these constructions have similar intonational patterns. LDs are tonally realized by a rising nuclear configuration and may be followed by a pause (more often in HTLDs than in the other constructions, however). A sharp contrast exists between HTLDs in interrogatives and declaratives; only the former are obligatorily realized with a pause and may have a low edge tone.
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The intonational meaning of polar questions in Manchego Spanish spontaneous speech
The
intonational meaning of polar questions in Manchego Spanish spontaneous speech
1
A01
Nicholas Henriksen
Henriksen, Nicholas
Nicholas
Henriksen
University of Michigan
2
A01
Meghan E. Armstrong
Armstrong, Meghan E.
Meghan E.
Armstrong
University of Massachusetts Amherst
3
A01
Lorenzo García-Amaya
García-Amaya, Lorenzo
Lorenzo
García-Amaya
University of Michigan
20
intonation
20
Manchego Spanish
20
polar questions
20
pragmatics
01
Previous work on Spanish intonation has not sufficiently addressed the formmeaning patterns that govern pragmatic use in spontaneous interaction. This study is an initial attempt to examine the pragmatic use of polar question intonation in Manchego Spanish conversational speech. First, we document L+H H% and L+H L% as the most common nuclear configurations. Second, we argue that for these two configurations, speakers communicate a layer of meaning in addition to interrogativity: L+H H% signals speaker-attributed thoughts, whereas L+H L% signals other-attributed thoughts. These results constitute empirical support for Escandell-Vidal’s (1998) Relevance Theory account on polar question intonation in Peninsular Spanish. One contribution of our empirical approach is that we show that L H% configurations are especially rare in spontaneous speech.
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Declarative utterances in Buenos Aires Spanish
1
A01
Leopoldo Omar Labastía
Labastía, Leopoldo Omar
Leopoldo Omar
Labastía
Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina, Proyecto SYPCE (Semántica Procedimental y Contenido Explícito) III & Proyecto FFI2015-63497-P (La interfaz Semántica / Pragmática y la resolución de los desajustes interpretativos)
20
falling intonation
20
intonation
20
pragmatics
20
relevance
01
This chapter aims to explore an aspect of the interface between prosody and pragmatics by examining the contribution of intonation to the process of utterance interpretation in spontaneous speech. Buenos Aires Spanish has three nuclear pitch accent + boundary tone configurations associated with declarative utterances: (a) high-falling (H+L<i> </i>L%); (b) low (L<i> </i>L%); (c) risingfalling (L+H+L L%). All three can be used to assert a given state of affairs, but each encodes a different pragmatic meaning, associated with the strength and emphasis with which the state of affairs is communicated and with the type of cognitive effect to be achieved by the utterance. The prosodic analysis is carried out using the Autosegmental-Metrical approach, and the pragmatic analysis follows Relevance Theory.
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Towards automatic language processing and intonational labeling in European Portuguese
1
A01
Helena Moniz
Moniz, Helena
Helena
Moniz
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
2
A01
Fernando Batista
Batista, Fernando
Fernando
Batista
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores – Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa
3
A01
Ana Isabel Mata
Mata, Ana Isabel
Ana Isabel
Mata
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
4
A01
Isabel Trancoso
Trancoso, Isabel
Isabel
Trancoso
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores – Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa
20
European Portuguese
20
prosody
20
speech processing
20
structural metadata
01
This work describes a framework that encompasses multi-layered linguistic information, focusing on prosodic features (pitch, energy, and tempo patterns), uses such features to distinguish between sentence-form types and disfluency/fluency repairs, and contributes to the characterization of intonational patterns of spontaneous and prepared speech in European Portuguese. Different machine learning methods have been applied for discriminating between structural metadata events, both in university lectures and in map-task dialogues, containing large amounts of spontaneous speech. Results show that prosodic features, and particularly a set of very informative features, are crucial to distinguish between sentence-form types and disfluency/fluency repair events. This is the first work for European Portuguese on both fully automatic processing of multi-layered linguistically description of spoken corpora and intonational labeling.
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Part III. Intonation, acquisition and special populations
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276
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01
Prosodic and gestural features distinguish the intention of pointing gestures in child-directed communication
1
A01
Núria Esteve-Gibert
Esteve-Gibert, Núria
Núria
Esteve-Gibert
Department of Translation and Language Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
2
A01
Ulf Liszkowski
Liszkowski, Ulf
Ulf
Liszkowski
Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Hamburg, Germany
3
A01
Pilar Prieto
Prieto, Pilar
Pilar
Prieto
ICREA (Institut Català de Recerca i Estudis Avançats)
20
child-directed communication
20
intention understanding
20
pointing gestures
20
prosody
01
Previous literature had found that infants rely on the social-contextual information to understand the pragmatic meaning of a pointing gesture. Our study investigates the prosodic and gesture features accompanying a pointing gesture that infants may also use to infer its meaning. Nine caregiver-infant dyads played three games designed to elicit pointing acts with either an expressive, imperative, or informative pragmatic meaning. Results show that in all pragmatic situations caregivers mostly combine pointing gestures with speech to direct the infants attention to an object, and that in child-directed communication specific prosodic (intonation contour, pitch range, and mean syllable duration) and gesture features (hand shape, gesture duration, and the gesture’s lexical affiliate) indicate the pragmatic meaning of a pointing gesture.
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Prosody in Portuguese Children with HighFunctioning Autism
1
A01
Marisa Filipe
Filipe, Marisa
Marisa
Filipe
Universidade do Porto
2
A01
Sónia Frota
Frota, Sónia
Sónia
Frota
Universidade de Lisboa
3
A01
Adrienne Villagomez
Villagomez, Adrienne
Adrienne
Villagomez
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
4
A01
Selene G. Vicente
Vicente, Selene G.
Selene G.
Vicente
Universidade do Porto
20
autism
20
high-functioning autism
20
Portuguese
20
prosodic impairments
20
prosody
01
There is a lack of research investigating prosody in Portuguese children with autism. In this chapter, we analyze 15 Portuguese children aged 5–9 years with high-functioning autism (HFA) in comparison to their typically developing peers. We also evaluated nonverbal intelligence, vocabulary, phonological awareness, pragmatics, attention, and executive functions. Statistical analyses, using pairwise matching of nonverbal intelligence and chronological age, suggested that children with HFA have difficulties perceiving and imitating prosodic patterns, as well as difficulties understanding or effectively producing some of the communicative functions conveyed by prosody. Findings suggested a significant positive correlation between prosody and other language domains. Additionally, two case studies were conducted to further discuss the prosodic impairments.
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Early Prosodic Development
Emerging intonation and phrasing in European Portuguese
1
A01
Sónia Frota
Frota, Sónia
Sónia
Frota
Universidade de Lisboa
2
A01
Marisa Cruz
Cruz, Marisa
Marisa
Cruz
Universidade de Lisboa
3
A01
Nuno Matos
Matos, Nuno
Nuno
Matos
Universidade de Lisboa
4
A01
Marina Vigário
Vigário, Marina
Marina
Vigário
Universidade de Lisboa
20
early production
20
intonation
20
prosodic development
20
prosodic phrasing
01
Studies of emerging prosody from the word to the phrase, integrating various sources of evidence, are scarce, and our understanding of the pathways of prosodic development is still very limited. An investigation of emerging intonation and prosodic phrasing was undertaken on the basis of production data on intonation and duration patterns from the speech of two European Portuguese children between 1;00 and 2;04. The results show that both the development of intonation and phrasing were found to precede the onset of combinatorial speech, and to coincide in time with critical points in lexical development. Prosodic phrasing evolved in three steps, by the unfolding of key prosodic levels. Implications of these results are discussed in relation to early prosodic development across languages.
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A preliminary study of wh-questions in German and Spanish child language
A
preliminary study of wh-questions in German and Spanish child language
1
A01
Conxita Lleó
Lleó, Conxita
Conxita
Lleó
University of Hamburg
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alignment
20
bilingual
20
boundary tones (BT)
20
L1 acquisition
20
pitch accents
20
scaling
20
wh-questions
01
This article presents a preliminary study of L1 acquisition of <i>wh</i>-questions in German and Spanish. According to traditional descriptions, neutral informationseeking <i>wh</i>-questions show similar contours in both languages, although there are cross-linguistic differences in scaling and alignment as well as different pitch accents, formalized in the Autosegmental-Metrical model of intonation. <i>Wh</i>questions uttered by two 3-year-old German-Spanish bilinguals are compared to those produced by monolingual children, and adults. Analyses show that most aspects of such utterances seem to already be acquired at the age of 3;0. However, bilinguals exhibit much variation, which reveals cross-linguistic interaction. Moreover, 3-year-olds produce many rising contours in German, only a few of which can be characterized as non-neutral.
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Assessment of Spanish prosody in clinical populations
The case of Williams syndrome
1
A01
Pastora Martínez-Castilla
Martínez-Castilla, Pastora
Pastora
Martínez-Castilla
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia/Independent researcher
2
A01
Sue Peppé
Peppé, Sue
Sue
Peppé
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia/Independent researcher
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clinical populations
20
intonation
20
prosody assessment
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test
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Williams syndrome
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We begin by reviewing ways of assessing prosody in Spanish-speaking individuals with disorders of different aetiologies. In Spanish, only one test has been specifically designed for prosody assessment in clinical populations: The Iberian Spanish version of the <i>Profiling Elements of Prosody in Speech-Communication</i> (PEPS-C) test. Building on our previous work, we describe the test and summarize results found with typically developing Spanish and Englishspeaking individuals. The use of the Spanish PEPS-C test in clinical populations is exemplified with the case of Williams syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder. By discussing the relevance of the results found both in Williams syndrome and typical development we highlight developmental patterns and cross-linguistic differences that should be taken into account when assessing Spanish prosody in clinical settings.
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ihll.6.17que
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386
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Article
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Intonation and grammar in the visual-gestural modality
A case study on conditionals in Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
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Josep Quer
Quer, Josep
Josep
Quer
ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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brow raise
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Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
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conditional sentences
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nonmanual markers
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prosodic structure
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sign language intonation
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Although certain facial nonmanual articulations in sign languages have been analyzed as overt markers of a syntactic domain or semantic scope, an alternative view defends that they genuinely signal prosodic domains. Moreover, they have been claimed to convey discrete general meanings. I address the open question of the proper characterization of nonmanual domain markers by studying brow raise in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). It marks conditional antecedents and other dependent clauses in the left periphery. This study aims to determine whether LSC conditionals offer new evidence in favor of one of the two types of competing analyses, and concludes that brow raise is a portmanteau marker of syntactic integration of the dependent clause into the matrix, potentially layered with other nonmanuals.
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ihll.6.18ind
387
390
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Article
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