Papers by Verònica Crespo Sendra
Speech Prosody 2016, 2016
In Portuguese, different strategies for dealing with tune-text accommodation have been reported. ... more In Portuguese, different strategies for dealing with tune-text accommodation have been reported. However, no systematic research has been conducted exploring crucial cases of complex nuclear melodies realized in nuclear words with final stress, as in yes-no questions. Based on reading and semispontaneous data from ten regions in Brazil and eleven regions in Portugal, this study reveals that Brazilian and European Portuguese globally differ with respect to the strategies implemented: in Brazilian Portuguese, the text is preserved and the melody is changed (mostly by means of tonal truncation); in European Portuguese, the melody is preserved and the text is changed through various strategies, including schwa epenthesis. Faithfulness to the text or to the tune is thus a relevant dimension of variation both across and within languages, and text changes (through vowel lengthening, vowel split, vowel epenthesis, or blocking of vowel deletion) are crucial means to support tune realization that have recently been found in unrelated languages.
Intonation in Romance, 2015
AND MARIA DEL MAR VANRELL 2.1 Introduction 2.1.1 Geographical distribution of the Catalan languag... more AND MARIA DEL MAR VANRELL 2.1 Introduction 2.1.1 Geographical distribution of the Catalan language Catalan is a Romance language that is spoken by about 10 million people in a region that lies within four adjacent European states, Andorra, Italy, France, and Spain. 1 Fig. 2.1 shows a map of the geographical areas where Catalan is spoken, subdivided into its major and traditionally accepted dialects (Veny 1982): Central Catalan and Northwestern Catalan (spoken in Catalonia, Aragon, and Andorra), Valencian Catalan (Valencian region), Balearic Catalan (Balearic Islands), Northern Catalan (in the Roussillon region of southern France, roughly equivalent to the current département of Pyrénées-Orientales), and Algherese Catalan (in the city of l'Alguer, Sardinia). Breaking down the total number of roughly 10 million Catalan speakers by geographic area, Catalonia and the Valencian region provide the great majority, with 5,703,000 and 2,952,000 respectively, followed by the Balearic community with 735,000 speakers. The remaining territories provide much smaller figures, with 61,000 speakers in Andorra, 142,000 speakers in southern France, and 24,000 in the city of l'Alguer (Sardinia, Italy) (data from Pons and Sorolla 2009). With respect to its legal status, Catalan is the official language in Andorra; within Spain it is co-official 1 The data comes from the Enquesta dels usos lingüístics a Catalunya 2003, coordinated by J. Torres and updated by Pons and Sorolla (2009) and Querol (2010).
Probus, 2000
This study investigates the link between interrogative intonation and meaning in child-directed s... more This study investigates the link between interrogative intonation and meaning in child-directed speech (henceforth CDS) and how this is reflected in the early development of
Journal of Pragmatics, 2013
We analyze the interaction between facial gestures and intonation in the distinction between info... more We analyze the interaction between facial gestures and intonation in the distinction between information-seeking and incredulity yes/no questions in two languages We examine changes in intonation in both languages and the interaction with gestures. The importance of visual cues in the identification of tune meaning is more relevant when both question types have the same contour.
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* Aquest treball forma part d'un estudi més extens, el meu treball de recerca, Les oracions inter... more * Aquest treball forma part d'un estudi més extens, el meu treball de recerca, Les oracions interrogatives absolutes en valencià (2008). Voldria donar les gràcies a tots aquells que han contribuït en l'elaboració d'aquest treball, entre els quals m'agradaria destacar Pilar Prieto, Maria del Mar Vanrell i Xavier Molina.
oraciones interrogativas del español en un corpus de habla dirigida a niños. Se analizaron prosód... more oraciones interrogativas del español en un corpus de habla dirigida a niños. Se analizaron prosódicamente un total de 347 oraciones interrogativas absolutas, 243 del corpus Ornat y Mariscal (2005) y 104 del corpus Ojea y Llinàs-Grau (2004), ambos disponibles en el sitio web CHILDES (MacWhinney y Snow, 1985). En estos dos corpus se documentan cinco patrones tonales distintos, con funciones pragmáticas específicas. Por lo que se refiere a la identificación de características prosódicas específicas del habla materna, el análisis confirma resultados de estudios en otras lenguas que muestran que la entonación en este estilo de habla se caracteriza por un incremento de la altura y del campo tonales, así como la presencia de alargamientos silábicos (véase Fernald et al., 1989). Por otro lado, estos contornos interrogativos típicamente muestran un tono de frontera sostenido que parece caracterizar el estilo de habla materna (vg. Armstrong, 2010). Un estudio de la prosodia infantil de esos mismos corpus ha demostrado que las dos niñas producen esos cinco tipos de contornos antes de cumplir los dos años (Prieto et al., 2010).
We analyze the interaction between facial gestures and intonation in the distinction between info... more We analyze the interaction between facial gestures and intonation in the distinction between information-seeking and incredulity yes/no questions in two languages We examine changes in intonation in both languages and the interaction with gestures. The importance of visual cues in the identification of tune meaning is more relevant when both question types have the same contour.
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