Martin Rakow

List of John Benjamins publications for which Martin Rakow plays a role.

Articles

Lleó, Conxita and Martin Rakow 2011 Intonation targets of yes/no questions by Spanish and German monolingual and bilingual childrenThe Development of Grammar: Language acquisition and diachronic change, Rinke, Esther and Tanja Kupisch (eds.), pp. 263–286 | Article
Yes/no interrogative utterances in German and Spanish exhibit four comparable intonation points: a first peak, a falling F0, an L and a final H. However, there are differences regarding the alignment and scaling of H and L tones across the two languages. Yes/no questions by German and Spanish… read more
The present study compares the production of phonetic cues signaling phrasing boundaries by three monolingual Spanish, three monolingual German and three German-Spanish bilingual children at age 3;0, in broad-focus declaratives. The phonetic cues analyzed are F0-reset, intonation contours (falling… read more