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Direct linkPrieto, Pilar; D'Imperio, Mariapaola; Fivela, Barbara Gili – Language and Speech, 2005
The article describes the contrastive possibilities of alignment of high accents in three Romance varieties, namely, Central Catalan, Neapolitan Italian, and Pisa Italian. The Romance languages analyzed in this article provide crucial evidence that small differences in alignment in rising accents should be encoded phonologically. To account for…
Descriptors: Romance Languages, Italian, Suprasegmentals, Phonology
Elordieta, Gorka; Calleja, Nagore – Language and Speech, 2005
This paper presents patterns of accentual alignment in two varieties of Spanish spoken in the Basque Country: Lekeitio Spanish (LS), with speakers whose other native language is Lekeitio Basque (LB); and Vitoria Spanish (VS), with monolingual speakers of Spanish from the city of Vitoria. These patterns are compared to those of Madrid Spanish (MS),…
Descriptors: Syllables, Monolingualism, Spanish, Indo European Languages
