Pilar Prieto

List of John Benjamins publications for which Pilar Prieto plays a role.

Book series

Titles

The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition

Edited by Pilar Prieto and Núria Esteve-Gibert

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 23] 2018. vi, 368 pp.
Subjects Language acquisition | Phonology | Psycholinguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Segmental and prosodic issues in Romance phonology

Edited by Pilar Prieto, Joan Mascaró and Maria-Josep Solé

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 282] 2007. xvi, 262 pp.
Subjects Phonology | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Li, Peng, Florence Baills, Charlotte Alazard-Guiu, Lorraine Baque and Pilar Prieto 2023 A pedagogical note on teaching L2 prosody and speech sounds using hand gesturesJournal of Second Language Pronunciation 9:3, pp. 340–349 | Article
This paper reports the pedagogical decisions in Li et al. (2023) “The effectiveness of embodied prosodic training in L2 accentedness and vowel accuracy” published in Second Language Research. The study revealed that embodied prosodic training improved the overall pronunciation skills of… read more
Esteve-Gibert, Núria and Pilar Prieto 2018 Chapter 12. Early development of the prosody-meaning interfaceThe Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition, Prieto, Pilar and Núria Esteve-Gibert (eds.), pp. 227–246 | Chapter
This chapter reviews evidence on how infants up to 18 months of age develop the ability to use prosody as a sign of the expression of pragmatic meanings, from both a comprehension and a production point of view. Developmental research reveals that pre-lexical infants use prosodic information not… read more
Prieto, Pilar and Núria Esteve-Gibert 2018 Chapter 1. Introduction: An overview of research on prosodic developmentThe Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition, Prieto, Pilar and Núria Esteve-Gibert (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter
Astruc-Aguilera, Lluïsa, Maria del Mar Vanrell and Pilar Prieto 2016 Cost of the action and social distance affect the selection of question intonation in CatalanIntonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields, Armstrong, Meghan E., Nicholas Henriksen and Maria del Mar Vanrell (eds.), pp. 93–114 | Article
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… read more
Esteve-Gibert, Núria, Ulf Liszkowski and Pilar Prieto 2016 Prosodic and gestural features distinguish the intention of pointing gestures in child-directed communicationIntonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields, Armstrong, Meghan E., Nicholas Henriksen and Maria del Mar Vanrell (eds.), pp. 251–276 | Article
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… read more
Ortega-Llebaria, Marta and Pilar Prieto 2009 Perception of word stress in Castilian Spanish: The effects of sentence intonation and vowel typePhonetics and Phonology: Interactions and interrelations, Vigário, Marina, Sónia Frota and M. João Freitas (eds.), pp. 35–50 | Article
We provide evidence for the perception of the stress contrast in unaccented contexts in Spanish. Twenty participants were asked to identify oxytone words which varied orthogonally in two bi-dimensional paroxytone-oxytone continua: one of duration and spectral tilt, and the other of duration and… read more
Prieto, Pilar and Marta Ortega-Llebaria 2009 Do complex pitch gestures induce syllable lengthening in Catalan and Spanish?Phonetics and Phonology: Interactions and interrelations, Vigário, Marina, Sónia Frota and M. João Freitas (eds.), pp. 51–70 | Article
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… read more
Frota, Sónia, Mariapaola D’Imperio, Gorka Elordieta, Pilar Prieto and Marina Vigário 2007 The phonetics and phonology of intonational phrasing in RomanceSegmental and prosodic issues in Romance phonology, Prieto, Pilar, Joan Mascaró and Maria-Josep Solé (eds.), pp. 131–153 | Article
This paper examines the phonetics and phonology of intonational boundaries in five Romance languages/varieties. A typology of the boundary cues used is given, as well as their relative frequency. The phonology of the tonal boundary gesture is described by means of the inventory of nuclear accents… read more
Ortega-Llebaria, Marta and Pilar Prieto 2007 Disentangling stress from accent in Spanish: Production patterns of the stress contrast in deaccented syllablesSegmental and prosodic issues in Romance phonology, Prieto, Pilar, Joan Mascaró and Maria-Josep Solé (eds.), pp. 155–176 | Article
According to Sluijter and colleagues (1996b, 1997), stress is independent from accent because it has its own phonetic cues: stressed vowels are longer and have flatter spectral tilts than their unstressed counterparts. However, Campbell and Beckman (1997) show that, for American English, these… read more
Cabré, Teresa and Pilar Prieto 2006 Exceptional hiatuses in SpanishOptimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology, Martínez-Gil, Fernando and Sonia Colina (eds.), pp. 205–238 | Article
This paper provides a close examination of how Spanish speakers syllabify sequences of vocoids of rising sonority within the lexicon (e.g., piano ‘piano’, persiana ‘blind’ or historia ‘history’). A survey with 246 words administered to 15 Peninsular Spanish speakers has enabled us to examine in a… read more
Prieto, Pilar 2006 Phonological phrasing in SpanishOptimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology, Martínez-Gil, Fernando and Sonia Colina (eds.), pp. 39–61 | Article
This article investigates the role of syntactic and prosodic markedness constraints on the construction of phonological phrases (φ- or p-phrases) in Peninsular Spanish. The data come from a reading task of a corpus composed of 85 utterances with a wide variety of structures and constituent lengths.… read more
Prieto, Pilar 2000 Vowel Lengthening in MilanesePhonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy, Repetti, Lori (ed.), pp. 255–272 | Article