Ariadna Benet
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ariadna Benet plays a role.
2012 Devoicing of sibilants as a segmental cue to the influence of Spanish onto current Catalan phonology Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies, Braunmüller, Kurt and Christoph Gabriel (eds.), pp. 391–404 | Article
This article presents production data of sibilant segments by Catalan speakers in a Spanish-Catalan bilingual context. Catalan includes voiced sibilants in its sound system, whereas Spanish only has voiceless ones. Subjects come from two areas of Barcelona differing in the degree of presence of… read more
2012 Phonoprosodic corpus of spoken Catalan (PhonCAT) Multilingual Corpora and Multilingual Corpus Analysis, Schmidt, Thomas and Kai Wörner (eds.), pp. 215–229 | Article
This article describes the corpus of spoken Catalan elaborated within the research project “Phonoprosodic development of Catalan in its current bilingual context”. The corpus contains 174 interviews with speakers from three districts of Barcelona varying on the presence of Spanish. The subjects… read more
2011 Phrase boundary distribution in Catalan: Applying the prosodic hierarchy to spontaneous speech Intonational Phrasing in Romance and Germanic: Cross-linguistic and bilingual studies, Gabriel, Christoph and Conxita Lleó (eds.), pp. 97–126 | Article
This article has three aims. First, to find out whether the Spanish influence on Catalan found at the segmental level (Lleó, Benet & Cortés 2009) is also to be observed in prosody, specifically with regard to phrasing. More sustained pitch and less continuation rise has been found in a Spanish… read more
2009 Gradient merging of vowels in Barcelona Catalan under the influence of Spanish Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations, Braunmüller, Kurt and Juliane House (eds.), pp. 185–204 | Article
The present article examines the influence of Spanish phonology on the production of Catalan vowel contrasts. Vowels produced by Catalan bilinguals in three different districts in Barcelona are both auditorily and acoustically analyzed in order to find out whether differences in exposure to Catalan… read more
2008 Contact-induced phonological changes in the Catalan spoken in Barcelona Language Contact and Contact Languages, Siemund, Peter and Noemi Kintana (eds.), pp. 185–212 | Article