Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields
Edited by Meghan E. Armstrong, Nicholas Henriksen and Maria del Mar Vanrell
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 6] 2016. xxi, 389 pp.
Maria del Mar Vanrell
List of John Benjamins publications for which Maria del Mar Vanrell plays a role.
Title
Subjects Phonetics | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2018 Chapter 2. Language variation at the prosody-syntax interface: Focus in European Spanish Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond, García García, Marco and Melanie Uth (eds.), pp. 33–70 | Chapter
Spanish is generally considered a “word order language” with respect to focus marking, since the syntactic strategies used to alter the canonical order seem to depend on focus type. Thus, prosodically motivated movement is utilized for information narrow focus, and focus fronting, clefting, and… read more
2016 Introduction: Intonational grammar in Ibero-Romance Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields, Armstrong, Meghan E., Nicholas Henriksen and Maria del Mar Vanrell (eds.), pp. vii–xii | Article
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 | 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
2013 Pitch accent types and the perception of focus in Majorcan Catalan wh-questions Prosody and Iconicity, Hancil, Sylvie and Daniel Hirst (eds.), pp. 127–148 | Article
This paper aims to investigate whether two intonational nuclear configurations found in Majorcan Catalan wh-questions, the falling nuclear configuration and the rising-falling one, correspond to a difference in the function of focus or whether, on the contrary, this intonational difference is… read more