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Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on research on prosodic variation, comprising intonation, prosodic phrasing, and segmental phenomena that are prosodically motivated or constrained, in several languages and language varieties. Besides Portuguese (European, Brazilian, and African varieties), the book covers another three unrelated languages and their varieties: Romanian, Arabic, and Assamese (spoken in India and Bangladesh). Language coverage is thus diverse, including understudied languages/varieties. The approaches followed are both experimental and theoretical. All the chapters share a common goal: to add to the knowledge of prosodic variation in each of the languages and varieties studied, and to contribute to the understanding of prosodic grammar, in general.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Marisa Cruz and Sónia Frota Part I: Intonation 1. Text-tune Alignment in Tunisian Arabic Yes-no Questions Sam Hellmuth (University of York) 2. Asking Questions across Portuguese Varieties Marisa Cruz, Verònica Crespo-Sendra, Joelma Castelo (Universidade Estadual do Paraná, Brazil) and Sónia Frota 3. High Pre-tonic Falls in Northeastern Brazilian Varieties: May a Prenuclear High Target Spreading Rightward Re-categorize as a Nuclear Leading Tone? Marco Barone (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil) and Joelma Castelo 4. From ToBI Phonological Events to Functional Melodic Forms at the Communicative Level Doina Jitca (Institute of Computer Science of Romanian Academy) Part II: Prosodic Phrasing and Segments 5. Prosody of Contrastive Focus in Two Varieties of Assamese Asim. I. Twaha (Barnagar College, Sorbhog under Gauhati University, Guwahati, India) and Shakuntala Mahanta (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India) 6. Intonational Phrasing and Nuclear Configurations of SVO Sentences across Varieties of Portuguese Flaviane Fernandes-Svartman (Universidade de São Paulo), Nádia Barros (University of Lisbon), Vinícius dos Santos (Universidade de São Paulo) and Joelma Castelo 7. Hiatus Resolution across Words in European Portuguese Dialects Nuno Paulino, Pedro Oliveira and Marina Vigário (University of Lisbon)
