Publications

Publication details [#44037]

Labastía, Leopoldo Omar. 2006. Prosodic prominence in Argentinian Spanish. Journal of Pragmatics 38 (10) : 1677–1705.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

defocusing | interpretation | intonation | prosody

Language as a subject

Spanish, Argentinian

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article uses relevance theory to examine cases of early nucleus placement in Argentinian Spanish intonation phrases, demonstrating the possibility of defocalisation with or without contrastive interpretation.