Language and Speech articles from December 2005

Language and Speech archives from December 2005

Special issue: intonation in language varieties.
December 1, 2005... This special issue is based on contributions to a satellite workshop held at the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences in Barcelona, Spain in August 2003, and organized by the current author with the assistance of Patricia...

Issues in the study of intonation in language varieties.
December 1, 2005... Abstract Some key issues in the study of intonation in language varieties are presented and discussed with reference to recent research on the intonation of New Zealand English. The particular issues that are highlighted include the...

Pitch accent alignment in Romance: primary and secondary associations with metrical structure.
December 1, 2005... Abstract The article describes the contrastive possibilities of alignment of high accents in three Romance varieties, namely, Central Catalan, Neapolitan Italian, and Pisa Italian. The Romance languages analyzed in this article provide...

Microvariation in accentual alignment in Basque Spanish.
December 1, 2005... Abstract This paper presents patterns of accentual alignment in two varieties of Spanish spoken in the Basque Country: Lekeitio Spanish (LS), with speakers whose other native language is Lekeitio Basque (LB); and Vitoria Spanish (VS), with...

Tonal Alignment in Irish dialects.
December 1, 2005... Abstract A comparison of the contour alignment of nuclear and initial prenuclear accents was carried out for the Irish dialects of Gaoth Dobhair in Ulster (GD-U) and Cois Fharraige in Connaught (CF-C). This was done across conditions where...