Romance Phonetics and Phonology

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-873940-1
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 928 g

This volume explores several recurring topics in Romance phonetics and phonology, with a special focus on the segment, syllable, word, and phrase levels of analysis. An international team of experts and junior researchers present research that ranges from the low-level mechanical processes involved in speech production and perception to high-level representation and computation, based on data from across the Romance language family, including from varieties that are less widely studied.

The book is divided into five parts. In the first, chapters present acoustic studies, examining topics such as Italian anaphonesis and voiceless fricative sibilants in Galician, while chapters in part two turn to articulatory studies of features including three-consonant onsets in Romanian and rhotic variation in Tuscan Italian. The focus of the third part is perception, and includes studies of perceived phrasing in French and perceptual cues for individual voice quality, while part four examines phonological issues such as Galician mid-vowel reduction and sibilant voicing in Spanish. Chapters in the final part of the volume look at the effects of production and perception on issues in language acquisition. The book draws on a range of experimental and methodological approaches and will be of interest not only to scholars of Romance linguistics but also to all those working in phonetics and phonology from graduate level upwards.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gibson, Mark

Gil, Juana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Mark Gibson and Juana Gil: Romance sounds: New insights for old issues

- PART 1: ACOUSTIC STUDIES

- 2: Beatriz Blecua and Jordi Cicres: Rhotic variation in Spanish codas. Acoustic analysis and effect of context in spontaneous speech

- 3: Silvia Calamai: The phonetics of Italian anaphonesis: Between production and perception

- 4: Xosé Luis Regueira and María José Ginzo: A cross-linguistic study of voiceless fricative sibilants in Galician and European Portuguese

- 5: Cédric Gendrot, Martine Adda Decker and Fabián Santiago: Acoustic realization of vowels as a function of syllable position: a cross-linguistic study with data from French and Spanish

- PART 2: ARTICULATORY STUDIES

- 6: Chiara Celata, Alessandro Vietti, and Lorenzo Spreafico: An articulatory account of rhotic variation in Tuscan Italian: Synchronized UTI and EPG data

- 7: Ioana Chitoran and Stefania Marin: Vowels and diphthongs: The articulatory and acoustic structure of Romanian nuclei

- 8: Stefania Marin: Temporal organization of three-consonant onsets in Romanian

- 9: Daniel Recasens and Meritxell Mira: Articulatory setting, articulatory symmetry and production mechanisms for a subset of consonant sequences in three Catalan dialects

- PART 3: STUDIES IN PERCEPTION

- 10: Marianela Fernández Trinidad and José Manuel Rojo-Abuin: Perceptual cues for individual voice quality

- 11: Joaquim Llisterri and Sandra Schwab: Perception of lexical stress in Spanish L2 by French speakers

- 12: Sandra Madureira: Brazilian Portuguese rhotics in poem reciting: perceptual, acoustic and meaning-related issues

- 13: Caroline L. Smith: Perceived phrasing in French: a survey of some sentence structures

- PART 4: PHONOLOGICAL ISSUES

- 14: Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza: Modeling assimilation: The case of sibilant voicing in Spanish

- 15: Jesús Jiménez, Maria-Rosa Lloret, and Clàudia Pons-Moll: Adjusting to the syllable margins: Glides in Spanish and Catalan

- 16: Fernando Martínez Gil: Galician mid-vowel reduction: A Stratal OT account

- PART 5: STUDIES IN ACQUISITION

- 17: Laura Bosch: Language proximity and phonetic perception in young bilinguals: revisiting the trajectory of infants from Spanish-Catalan contexts

- 18: Jaydene Elvin, Polina Vasiliev, and Paola Escudero: Production and perception in the acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese

- 19: Isabelle Racine and Sylvain Detey: Production of French close rounded vowels by Spanish learners: A corpus-based study

- 20: Miquel Simonet: Phonetic behavior in proficient bilinguals: insights from the Catalan-Spanish contact situation

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Gibson is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Speech Laboratory at the University of Navarra. His research focuses on articulatory timing in syllables from a Laboratory Phonology perspective. He is the author of An Introduction to Spanish Phonology: From an Optimality-Theoretical Approach (VDM, 2011) and of numerous journal articles in English, Spanish, and French.

Juana Gil is currently Director of the Instituto Cervantes in Lyon, having previously held positions at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and at UNED, the Spanish open university. She also founded the Postgraduate Program in Speech Sciences organized by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). She is mainly interested in the phonetics-phonology interface and in some applications of phonetics, such forensic phonetics and second language pronunciation learning and teaching. She is the co-editor, with Ricardo Mairal, of Linguistic Universals (CUP, 2006).