The manifestation of intonational focus in Castilian Spanish

In this paper we study the phonological manifestation of various intonational focus domains in Castilian Spanish. We propose that downstep is one of the intonational signallers of focus in this language. The phonological problems of accounting for this phenomenon in Pierrehumbertian models are explo...

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Autores principales:	Mercedes Cabrera Abreu, María Luisa García Lecumberri
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Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2003
Materias:	intonational focus phonological representations downstep licensing relations onset nucleus Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:2ff6c6366bc5441aa171e8cb8d7e4e7e2021-11-27T10:49:25ZThe manifestation of intonational focus in Castilian Spanish10.5565/rev/catjl.421695-68852014-9719https://doaj.org/article/2ff6c6366bc5441aa171e8cb8d7e4e7e2003-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/42https://doaj.org/toc/1695-6885https://doaj.org/toc/2014-9719In this paper we study the phonological manifestation of various intonational focus domains in Castilian Spanish. We propose that downstep is one of the intonational signallers of focus in this language. The phonological problems of accounting for this phenomenon in Pierrehumbertian models are explored. Alternative solutions are offered following the single-tone model put forward by Cabrera Abreu (2000) within the Government Phonology framework, taking into account other proposals by the author and her co-workers. Typically, the prefocal and focal items participate in licensing relations which integrate them in a well-formed phonological structure in terms of onsets and nuclei respectively as the only two possible constituents within another major constituent, the intonation group. Pitch movements in the prefocal and focal items in the various focus domains are accounted for by the presence / absence of T(one) associated to different constituent boundaries. In addition, the constituent licensing the focal item is preceded by an intonation group whose nuclear constituent is empty, thus showing toneless boundaries which are responsible for the observed downstep effect.Mercedes Cabrera AbreuMaría Luisa García LecumberriUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelonaarticleintonational focusphonological representationsdownsteplicensing relationsonsetnucleusPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091CAENCatalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 2 (2003)
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spellingShingle	intonational focus phonological representations downstep licensing relations onset nucleus Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Mercedes Cabrera Abreu María Luisa García Lecumberri The manifestation of intonational focus in Castilian Spanish
description	In this paper we study the phonological manifestation of various intonational focus domains in Castilian Spanish. We propose that downstep is one of the intonational signallers of focus in this language. The phonological problems of accounting for this phenomenon in Pierrehumbertian models are explored. Alternative solutions are offered following the single-tone model put forward by Cabrera Abreu (2000) within the Government Phonology framework, taking into account other proposals by the author and her co-workers. Typically, the prefocal and focal items participate in licensing relations which integrate them in a well-formed phonological structure in terms of onsets and nuclei respectively as the only two possible constituents within another major constituent, the intonation group. Pitch movements in the prefocal and focal items in the various focus domains are accounted for by the presence / absence of T(one) associated to different constituent boundaries. In addition, the constituent licensing the focal item is preceded by an intonation group whose nuclear constituent is empty, thus showing toneless boundaries which are responsible for the observed downstep effect.
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author	Mercedes Cabrera Abreu María Luisa García Lecumberri
author_facet	Mercedes Cabrera Abreu María Luisa García Lecumberri
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title	The manifestation of intonational focus in Castilian Spanish
title_short	The manifestation of intonational focus in Castilian Spanish
title_full	The manifestation of intonational focus in Castilian Spanish
title_fullStr	The manifestation of intonational focus in Castilian Spanish
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publisher	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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The manifestation of intonational focus in Castilian Spanish

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