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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971504403321

Titolo

Intonational phrasing in Romance and Germanic : cross-linguistic and bilingual studies / / edited by Christoph Gabriel, Conxita Lleó

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2011

ISBN

9786612976834

9781282976832

1282976834

9789027287380

9027287384

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

viii, 237 p. : ill

Collana

Hamburg studies on multilingualism ; ; v. 10

Altri autori (Persone)

GabrielChristoph

LleóConxita

Disciplina

414/.6

Soggetti

Multilingualism - Europe

Intonation (Phonetics)

Languages in contact - Europe

Discourse analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Phrasing across languages -- pt. 2. Phrasing of languages in contact.

Sommario/riassunto

The present study compares the production of phonetic cues signaling phrasing boundaries by three monolingual Spanish, three monolingual German and three German-Spanish bilingual children at age 3;0, in broad-focus declaratives. The phonetic cues analyzed are F0-reset, intonation contours (falling vs. rising), pauses, final lengthening and glottal stop insertion (Peters 2006, for German; and Frota et al. 2007, for Spanish). Results show that both monolinguals and bilinguals signal prosodic phrase boundaries in ways that can be considered adult-like. However, bilinguals exhibit more individual differences. Whereas two bilingual children show differences between their two prosodic systems, which correspond to the values of the two adult languages, a third bilingual child signals cues by means of German values in both



languages, German and Spanish.