Modeling prosody and rhythmic distributions in Spanish speech groups
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Emily Nava
Abstract
Cross-linguistic differences in rhythm and second language speech rhythm have been investigated using a variety of measures that typically reduce a language or speech group to a single number, ignoring possible differences in the distribution of quantities. The hypothesis pursued here is that a relation exists between phrasal prominence and rhythmic distribution in a language and that this relation can be observed in the behavior of L1Spanish/L2English learners, whose phrasal prominence acquisition is conditioned by prior acquisition of learning rhythm at the foot level in English. This hypothesis was tested in three experiments designed to probe the difference in prominence placement in English and Spanish. The findings support the hypothesis that the distribution for phrasal prominence differs in the two languages, and that a relation between phrasal prominence and rhythmic distribution exists.
Abstract
Cross-linguistic differences in rhythm and second language speech rhythm have been investigated using a variety of measures that typically reduce a language or speech group to a single number, ignoring possible differences in the distribution of quantities. The hypothesis pursued here is that a relation exists between phrasal prominence and rhythmic distribution in a language and that this relation can be observed in the behavior of L1Spanish/L2English learners, whose phrasal prominence acquisition is conditioned by prior acquisition of learning rhythm at the foot level in English. This hypothesis was tested in three experiments designed to probe the difference in prominence placement in English and Spanish. The findings support the hypothesis that the distribution for phrasal prominence differs in the two languages, and that a relation between phrasal prominence and rhythmic distribution exists.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword & acknowledgments vii
- Editors’ introduction ix
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Part I First and second language acquisition
- Devil or angel in the details? 3
- Effects of Spanish use on the production of Catalan vowels by early Spanish-Catalan bilinguals 33
- Cues to dialectal discrimination in early infancy 55
- Phonology versus phonetics in loanword adaptations 71
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Part II Prosody
- A preliminary study of penultimate accentuation in French 93
- Sentence modality and tempo in Neapolitan Italian 109
- Glottalization at phrase boundaries in Tuscan and Roman Italian 125
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Part III Segments
- Acoustic analysis of syllable-final /k/ in Northern Peninsular Spanish 151
- The phonetic basis of a phonological pattern 171
- The production of rhotics in onset clusters by Spanish monolinguals and Spanish-Basque bilinguals 193
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Part IV Methodology
- Secondary correlates of question signaling in Manchego Spanish 211
- Modeling prosody and rhythmic distributions in Spanish speech groups 239
- Categories and gradience in intonation 259
- Subject Index 285
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword & acknowledgments vii
- Editors’ introduction ix
-
Part I First and second language acquisition
- Devil or angel in the details? 3
- Effects of Spanish use on the production of Catalan vowels by early Spanish-Catalan bilinguals 33
- Cues to dialectal discrimination in early infancy 55
- Phonology versus phonetics in loanword adaptations 71
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Part II Prosody
- A preliminary study of penultimate accentuation in French 93
- Sentence modality and tempo in Neapolitan Italian 109
- Glottalization at phrase boundaries in Tuscan and Roman Italian 125
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Part III Segments
- Acoustic analysis of syllable-final /k/ in Northern Peninsular Spanish 151
- The phonetic basis of a phonological pattern 171
- The production of rhotics in onset clusters by Spanish monolinguals and Spanish-Basque bilinguals 193
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Part IV Methodology
- Secondary correlates of question signaling in Manchego Spanish 211
- Modeling prosody and rhythmic distributions in Spanish speech groups 239
- Categories and gradience in intonation 259
- Subject Index 285
