Lluïsa Astruc-Aguilera

Lluïsa Astruc-Aguilera

List of John Benjamins publications for which Lluïsa Astruc-Aguilera plays a role.

Articles

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 Catalan. Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields, Armstrong, Meghan E., Nicholas Henriksen and Maria del Mar Vanrell (eds.), pp. 91–114
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 | Article
Astruc-Aguilera, Lluïsa and Francis Nolan. 2007. Variation in the intonation of extra-sentential elements. Segmental and prosodic issues in Romance phonology, Prieto, Pilar, Joan Mascaró and Maria-Josep Solé (eds.), pp. 85–107
Extra-sentential elements usually form independent intonational domains. Due to this property, they have been used in the phonological literature to define the intonational phrase. This study, using English and Catalan empirical data collected in three experiments, shows significant variation in… read more | Article