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Record Nr.

UNINA9910135396203321

Autore

Cangemi Francesco

Titolo

Prosodic detail in Neapolitan Italian / / Francesco Cangemi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Language Science Press, 2014

Berlin, Germany : , : Language Science Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

9783944675015

3944675010

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v, 180 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s)

Collana

Studies in laboratory phonology ; ; 1

Soggetti

Italian language - Dialects - Naples

Grammar, Comparative and general - Phonology

Phonetics

Language and languages - Phonology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

Recent findings on phonetic detail have been taken as supporting exemplar-based approaches to prosody. Through four experiments on both production and perception of both melodic and temporal detail in Neapolitan Italian, we show that prosodic detail is not incompatible with abstractionist approaches either. Specifically, we suggest that the exploration of prosodic detail leads to a refined understanding of the relationships between the richly specified and continuous varying phonetic information on one side, and coarse phonologically structured contrasts on the other, thus offering insights on how pragmatic information is conveyed by prosody.