Foreword

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Foreword xiii
5. Part I. Intonation, variation and contact
6. Task-related effects in the prosody of Spanish heritage speakers and long-term immigrants 3
7. Pitch accent tonal alignment in declarative sentences in the Spanish of the Basque Country 25
8. Stylistic variation in the intonation of European Portuguese teenagers and adults 45
9. Focus and prosody in Spanish and Quechua 69
10. Part II. Intonational modeling, syntax and pragmatics
11. Cost of the action and social distance affect the selection of question intonation in Catalan 93
12. Intonation modeling in cross-linguistic research 115
13. Prosody and Emotion in Brazilian Portuguese 135
14. The Relation between Prosody and Syntax: The case of different types of Left-Dislocations in Spanish 153
15. The intonational meaning of polar questions in Manchego Spanish spontaneous speech 181
16. Declarative utterances in Buenos Aires Spanish 207
17. Towards automatic language processing and intonational labeling in European Portuguese 227
18. Part III. Intonation, acquisition and special populations
19. Prosodic and gestural features distinguish the intention of pointing gestures in child-directed communication 251
20. Prosody in Portuguese Children with HighFunctioning Autism 277
21. Early Prosodic Development 295
22. A preliminary study of wh-questions in German and Spanish child language 325
23. Assessment of Spanish prosody in clinical populations 351
24. Intonation and grammar in the visual-gestural modality 369
25. Index 387