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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| Main Authors: | Mercedes Cabrera Abreu, María Luisa García Lecumberri |
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| Format: | article |
| Language: | CA EN |
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2003
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| Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/2ff6c6366bc5441aa171e8cb8d7e4e7e |
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