Intonation in Romance

by Frota, Sonia; Prieto, Pilar

• ISBN13: 9780199685332
• ISBN10: 0199685339
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-08-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Sonia Frota, Associate Professor, University of Lisbon,Pilar Prieto, ICREA Research Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Sonia Frota is Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistics, and Director of the Laboratorio de Fonetica and of the Lisbon Baby Lab, University of Lisbon. Her research focuses on prosody in language, comprising phrasing, intonation, and rhythm, and the acquisition and development of prosody. She is interested in the properties of prosodic systems, the extent to which they vary across and within languages, and how they are acquired by infants. She also studies how prosodic cues may help bootstrapping the learning of language.


Pilar Prieto is an ICREA Research Professor at the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Her main research interests focus on the description of how melody and prosody works in language and how it interacts with other types of linguistic knowledge such as pragmatics and syntax, as well as on the role of prosody and facial and manual gestures in the expression of linguistic meaning.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Sonia Frota and Pilar Prieto
2. Intonational phonology of Catalan and its dialectal varieties, Pilar Prieto, Joan Borras-Comes, Teresa Cabre, Veronica Crespo-Sendra, Ignasi Mascaro, Paolo Roseano, Rafeu Sichel-Bazin, and Maria del Mar Vanrell
3. Intonational phonology of French: Developing a ToBI system for French, Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie, Brechtje Post, Mathieu Avanzi, Carolin Buthke, Albert Di Cristo, Ingo Feldhausen, Sun-Ah Jun, Philippe Martin, Trudel Meisenburg, Annie Rialland, Rafeu Sichel-Bazin, and Hi-Yon Yoo
4. Intonational phonology of Friulian and its dialects, Paolo Roseano, Maria del Mar Vanrell, and Pilar Prieto
5. Intonational phonology of the regional varieties of Italian, Barbara Gili Fivela, Cinzia Avesani, Marco Barone, Giuliano Bocci, Claudia Crocco, Mariapaola D'Imperio, Rosa Giordano, Giovanna Marotta, Michelina Savino, Patrizia Sorianello
6. Intonational phonology of Occitan: Towards a prosodic transcription system, Rafeu Sichel-Bazin, Trudel Meisenburg, and Pilar Prieto
7. Intonational variation in Portuguese: European and Brazilian varieties, Sonia Frota, Marisa Cruz, Flaviane Svartman, Gisela Collischonn, Aline Fonseca, Carolina Serra, Pedro Oliveira, and Marina Vigario
8. Transcription of Romanian intonation, Doina Jitca, Vasile Apopei, Otilia Paduraru, and Samuil Marusca
9. Sardinian intonational phonology: Logudorese and Campidanese varieties, Maria del Mar Vanrell, Francesc Ballone, Carlo Schirru, and Pilar Prieto
10. Intonational variation in Spanish: European and American varieties, Jose Ignacio Hualde and Pilar Prieto
11. Intonation in Romance: Similarities and differences, Sonia Frota and Pilar Prieto
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