Zsuzsanna Fagyal

List of John Benjamins publications for which Zsuzsanna Fagyal plays a role.

Title

Romance Linguistics 2008: Interactions in Romance. Selected papers from the 38th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Urbana-Champaign, April 2008

Edited by Karlos Arregi, Zsuzsanna Fagyal, Silvina Montrul and Annie Tremblay

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 313] 2010. vii, 266 pp.

Subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Fagyal, Zsuzsanna and Christopher M. Stewart. 2011. Prosodic style-shifting in preadolescent peer-group interactions in a working-class suburb of Paris. Ethnic Styles of Speaking in European Metropolitan Areas, Kern, Friederike and Margret Selting (eds.), pp. 75–99

In this chapter, we study the variable use of phrase-final intonation contours in French by male adolescents recorded in guided interviews in a multi-ethnic working-class suburb of Paris. We show that speakers use pragmatically neutral rising or falling intonation when listing target words… read more | Article

Carignan, Christopher and Zsuzsanna Fagyal. 2010. V-to-V assimilation in trisyllabic words in French: Evidence for gradience and locality. Romance Linguistics 2009: Selected papers from the 39th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Tucson, Arizona, March 2009, Colina, Sonia, Antxon Olarrea and Ana Maria Carvalho (eds.), pp. 25–42

We investigate the extent of regressive vowel-to-vowel assimilation in trisyllabic words in French. Sixty existing words were inserted in a carrier sentence, each containing /a/ in word-initial unstressed position, and /a/ or /i/ in word-medial unstressed and word-final stressed positions. Acoustic… read more | Article

Miller, Jessica and Zsuzsanna Fagyal. 2005. Phonetic Cues to Special Cases of Liaison: Looking for a Prosodic Domain. Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the 34th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Salt Lake City, March 2004, Gess, Randall and Edward J. Rubin (eds.), pp. 179–196

Article

Fagyal, Zsuzsanna. 2001. Phonetics and speaking machines: On the mechanical simulation of human speech in the 17th century. Historiographia Linguistica 28:3, pp. 289–330

This paper shows that in the 17th century various attempts were made to build fully automatic speaking devices resembling those exhibited in the late 18th-century in France and Germany. Through the analysis of writings by well-known 17th-century scientists, and a document hitherto unknown in the… read more | Article