Full Description
This volume explores several recurring topics in Romance phonetics and phonology, with a special focus on the segment, syllable, word, and phrase levels of analysis. An international team of experts and junior researchers present research that ranges from the low-level mechanical processes involved in speech production and perception to high-level representation and computation, based on data from across the Romance language family, including from varieties that are less widely studied.
The book is divided into five parts. In the first, chapters present acoustic studies, examining topics such as Italian anaphonesis and voiceless fricative sibilants in Galician, while chapters in part two turn to articulatory studies of features including three-consonant onsets in Romanian and rhotic variation in Tuscan Italian. The focus of the third part is perception, and includes studies of perceived phrasing in French and perceptual cues for individual voice quality, while part four examines phonological issues such as Galician mid-vowel reduction and sibilant voicing in Spanish. Chapters in the final part of the volume look at the effects of production and perception on issues in language acquisition. The book draws on a range of experimental and methodological approaches and will be of interest not only to scholars of Romance linguistics but also to all those working in phonetics and phonology from graduate level upwards.
Contents
1: Mark Gibson and Juana Gil: Romance sounds: New insights for old issues
PART 1: ACOUSTIC STUDIES
2: Beatriz Blecua and Jordi Cicres: Rhotic variation in Spanish codas. Acoustic analysis and effect of context in spontaneous speech
3: Silvia Calamai: The phonetics of Italian anaphonesis: Between production and perception
4: Xosé Luis Regueira and María José Ginzo: A cross-linguistic study of voiceless fricative sibilants in Galician and European Portuguese
5: Cédric Gendrot, Martine Adda Decker and Fabián Santiago: Acoustic realization of vowels as a function of syllable position: a cross-linguistic study with data from French and Spanish
PART 2: ARTICULATORY STUDIES
6: Chiara Celata, Alessandro Vietti, and Lorenzo Spreafico: An articulatory account of rhotic variation in Tuscan Italian: Synchronized UTI and EPG data
7: Ioana Chitoran and Stefania Marin: Vowels and diphthongs: The articulatory and acoustic structure of Romanian nuclei
8: Stefania Marin: Temporal organization of three-consonant onsets in Romanian
9: Daniel Recasens and Meritxell Mira: Articulatory setting, articulatory symmetry and production mechanisms for a subset of consonant sequences in three Catalan dialects
PART 3: STUDIES IN PERCEPTION
10: Marianela Fernández Trinidad and José Manuel Rojo-Abuin: Perceptual cues for individual voice quality
11: Joaquim Llisterri and Sandra Schwab: Perception of lexical stress in Spanish L2 by French speakers
12: Sandra Madureira: Brazilian Portuguese rhotics in poem reciting: perceptual, acoustic and meaning-related issues
13: Caroline L. Smith: Perceived phrasing in French: a survey of some sentence structures
PART 4: PHONOLOGICAL ISSUES
14: Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza: Modeling assimilation: The case of sibilant voicing in Spanish
15: Jesús Jiménez, Maria-Rosa Lloret, and Clàudia Pons-Moll: Adjusting to the syllable margins: Glides in Spanish and Catalan
16: Fernando Martínez Gil: Galician mid-vowel reduction: A Stratal OT account
PART 5: STUDIES IN ACQUISITION
17: Laura Bosch: Language proximity and phonetic perception in young bilinguals: revisiting the trajectory of infants from Spanish-Catalan contexts
18: Jaydene Elvin, Polina Vasiliev, and Paola Escudero: Production and perception in the acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese
19: Isabelle Racine and Sylvain Detey: Production of French close rounded vowels by Spanish learners: A corpus-based study
20: Miquel Simonet: Phonetic behavior in proficient bilinguals: insights from the Catalan-Spanish contact situation
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