Structure of Spoken Language - Intonation in Romance

An innovative and unified grammar of sentence intonation, applied to six Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian).

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The role of technological advances; 3. Transcription systems; 4. The autosegmental-metrical prosodic structure; 5. The incremental prosodic structure; 6. Lexical stress in Romance languages; 7. The incremental prosodic structure in six Romance languages; 8. Macrosyntax; 9. Applications; 10. Conclusion.

About the author

Philippe Martin is a Professor in the Linguistics Department at Université Paris Diderot.

Summary

Drawing on data from six Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian), this monograph focuses on a widely debated area of phonetics and phonology: intonation, and specifically its relation to metrics, its interface with syntax, and whether it can be attributed to phonetics or phonology, or to both.

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Philippe Martin, J-Philippe Martin, Philippe Martin, Philippe (Universite De Paris VII (Denis D Martin, Philippe (Universite de Paris VII (Denis Diderot)) Martin, Martin Philippe
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.11.2015
• EAN: 9781107036185
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03618-5
• No. of pages: 340
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Phonetics, phonology, Romance, Italic & Rhaeto-Romanic languages, Romance, Italic and Rhaeto-Romanic languages