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A Survey of Phonological Mid Vowel Intuitions in Central Catalan by Renwick, Margaret E L, Nadeu, Marianna

“…Catalan, like other Romance languages, has two pairs of phonemic mid vowels (/be/ “well” vs. /bɛ/ “lamb”; /os/ “bear” vs. /ɔs/ “bone”). However, these…”
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Stress- and speech rate-induced vowel quality variation in Catalan and Spanish by Nadeu, Marianna

“…This paper examines the effects of lexical stress and speech rate on vowel quality and duration in Central Catalan and Iberian Spanish and compares the…”
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Prosody and the meanings of English negative indefinites by Blanchette, Frances, Nadeu, Marianna

“…This paper investigates the acoustic correlates of single and Double Negation (DN) readings of English negative indefinites in question–answer pairs…”
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Phonetic and phonological vowel reduction in Central Catalan by Nadeu, Marianna

“…In Central Catalan, phonological vowel reduction causes the stressed seven-vowel system to reduce in number in unstressed position, where only the three…”
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Pitch range, gestural information, and perceived politeness in Catalan by Nadeu, Marianna, Prieto, Pilar

“…It is known that certain prosodic aspects of speech play a role in the expression of paralinguistic meaning, yet the concrete mechanisms of how this is…”
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Variation in the lexical distribution and implementation of phonetically similar phonemes in Catalan by Nadeu, Marianna, Renwick, Margaret E.L.

“…In some Romance languages with two pairs of mid vowel phonemes, it is acknowledged that these contrasts are somewhat unstable. We analyze the distribution and…”
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L2 effects on the perception and production of a native vowel contrast in early bilinguals by Mora, Joan C., Nadeu, Marianna

“…This study investigates the effect of L2 (Spanish) use on Catalan–Spanish bilinguals’ ability to accurately perceive and produce two contrastive native Catalan…”
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Biomechanically Conditioned Variation at the Origin of Diachronic Intervocalic Voicing by Nadeu, Marianna, Hualde, José Ignacio

“…This paper addresses the question of how synchronic variation in intervocalic voicing of voiceless obstruents, as observed in several languages (e.g., Rome…”
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Experience effects on the categorization of a native vowel contrast in highly proficient Catalan-Spanish bilinguals by Mora, Joan C., Nadeu, Marianna

“…The present study investigated the effect of experience on highly proficient adult Catalan-Spanish bilinguals’ ability to categorize two contrastive native…”
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Lenition and phonemic overlap in Rome Italian by Hualde, José Ignacio, Nadeu, Marianna

“…The purpose of this paper is to offer acoustic evidence for an unusual phonemic contrast in Rome Italian. In our corpus, about half of all tokens of…”
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Acoustic Correlates of Emphatic Stress in Central Catalan by Nadeu, Marianna, Hualde, José Ignacio

“…A common feature of public speech in Catalan is the placement of prominence on lexically unstressed syllables (“emphatic stress”). This paper presents an…”
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Catalan voiced prepalatals: Effects of nonphonetic factors on phonetic variation? by Hualde, José I., Eager, Christopher D., Nadeu, Marianna

“…Central Catalan ‘prepalatal’ (postalveolar) consonants show a complex phonological distribution. Whereas in word-internal intervocalic position a four-way…”
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The effects of lexical stress, intonational pitch accent, and speech rate on vowel quality in Catalan and Spanish by Nadeu Rota, Marianna

“…Lexical-stress languages tend to display stress-induced vowel quality variation. In some languages the effect is very salient, resulting in a smaller vowel…”
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