Search Results - "Vanrell, Maria del Mar"

Factive Entailments and Clausal Complementation in Karitiana by Vivanco, Karin, Bassa Vanrell, Maria del Mar

“…Attitude verbs describe mental states of their subject in relation to a proposition codified by their clausal complement. In this paper, we describe the…”
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Tonal Targets in Early Child English, Spanish, and Catalan by Astruc, Lluïsa, Payne, Elinor, Post, Brechtje, Vanrell, Maria del Mar, Prieto, Pilar

“…This study analyses the scaling and alignment of low and high intonational targets in the speech of 27 children – nine English-speaking, nine Catalan-speaking…”
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Variation at the Interfaces in Ibero-Romance. Catalan and Spanish Prosody and Word Order by Vanrell Bosch, Maria del Mar, Fernández Soriano, Olga

“…In this study we investigate how word order interacts with prosody in the expression of sentence modality and different focus constructions in different…”
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The relevance of prosodic structure in tonal articulation Edge effects at the prosodic word level in Catalan and Spanish by Prieto, Pilar, Estebas-Vilaplana, Eva, Mar Vanrell, Maria del

“…We conducted a production experiment with 1600 potentially ambiguous utterances distinguished by word boundary location in Catalan and Spanish (e.g., Cat. mi…”
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Phonotactic and phrasal properties of speech rhythm. Evidence from Catalan, English, and Spanish by Prieto, Pilar, Vanrell, Maria del Mar, Astruc, Lluïsa, Payne, Elinor, Post, Brechtje

“…► We investigate rhythmic patterns in English, Spanish, and Catalan. ► We find rhythmic differences between the three languages regardless of phonotactics. ►…”
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Experimental Evidence for the Role of Intonation in Evidential Marking by Vanrell, Maria del Mar, Armstrong, Meghan E., Prieto, Pilar

“…This paper investigates the role of intonation in the marking of directly-perceived information in Majorcan Catalan polar questions. We conducted a perception…”
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Is Prosodic Development Correlated with Grammatical and Lexical Development? Evidence from Emerging Intonation in Catalan and Spanish by Prieto, Pilar, Estrella, Ana, Thorson, Jill, Vanrell, Maria del Mar

“…This investigation focuses on the development of intonation patterns in four Catalan-speaking children and two Spanish-speaking children between 0 ; 11 and 2 ;…”
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Opacity in Campidanian Sardinian metaphony by Torres-Tamarit, Francesc, Linke, Kathrin, del Mar Vanrell, Maria

“…This paper develops an analysis of two opaque interactions in Campidanian Sardinian that involve metaphony and two other processes, vowel merger in the…”
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Measuring Child Rhythm by Payne, Elinor, Post, Brechtje, Astruc, Lluïsa, Prieto, Pilar, Vanrell, Maria del Mar

“…Interval-based rhythm metrics were applied to the speech of English, Catalan and Spanish 2, 4 and 6 year-olds, and compared with the (adult-directed) speech of…”
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The role of pitch range in establishing intonational contrasts by Borràs-Comes, Joan, Vanrell, Maria del Mar, Prieto, Pilar

“…One of the unresolved issues in the field of intonational phonology is whether pitch accent range differences are used by languages to express discrete…”
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Intonation as an Encoder of Speaker Certainty: Information and Confirmation Yes-No Questions in Catalan by Vanrell, Maria del Mar, Mascaró, Ignasi, Torres-Tamarit, Francesc, Prieto, Pilar

“…Recent studies in the field of intonational phonology have shown that information-seeking questions can be distinguished from confirmation-seeking questions by…”
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Analysis of inter-transcriber consistency in the Cat_ToBI prosodic labeling system by Escudero, David, Aguilar, Lourdes, Vanrell, Maria del Mar, Prieto, Pilar

“…► A set of tools to analyze inconsistencies observed in a Cat_ToBI labeling experiment are presented. ► The results reveal agreement rates for this study that…”
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Catalan speakers' perception of word stress in unaccented contexts by ORTEGA-LLEBARIA, Marta, VANRELL, Maria Del Mar, PRIETO, Pilar

“…In unaccented contexts, formant frequency differences related to vowel reduction constitute a consistent cue to word stress in English, whereas in languages…”
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Prosodic manifestations of the Effort Code in Catalan, Italian and Spanish contrastive focus by Vanrell, Maria del Mar, Stella, Antonio, Fivela, Barbara Gili, Prieto, Pilar

“…This paper investigates the relevance of three prosodic parameters (alignment, duration and scaling) in the conveyance of contrastive focus in Catalan, Italian…”
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A tonal scaling contrast in Majorcan Catalan interrogatives by Vanrell, Maria del Mar

“…This paper reports the application of the Categorical Perception paradigm to a pitch height contrast in the nuclear accent between yes-no and what-questions in…”
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Els universals lingüístics i el marcatge en l’ensenyament de la pronunciació del català com a llengua estrangera by Francesc Torres-Tamarit, Maria del Mar Vanrell Bosch

“…Aquest article explora la contribució que poden fer els universals lingüístics i la noció del marcatge tipològic a l’ensenyament i aprenentatge del sistema…”
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Oraciones hendidas y marcación del foco estrecho en español: una aproximación desde la teoría de la optimidad estocástica by Feldhausen, Ingo, del Mar Vanrell, Maria

“…Nuestro estudio arroja algo de luz sobre la realización del foco neutro y el foco contrastivo en español y propone un enfoque siguiendo la teoría de la…”
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Variació a les interfícies en iberoromànic : ordre de paraules i prosòdia en espanyol i en català by Vanrell Bosch, Maria del Mar, Fernández Soriano, Olga

“…En aquest estudi investiguem la interacció entre l’ordre de mots i la prosòdia a l’hora d’expressar la modalitat i diferents construccions de focus en una…”
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Sobre alguns contrastos fonològics en l'entonació del català by Prieto, Pilar, Vanrell, Maria del Mar

“…The main goal of this article is to provide evidence in favor of the phonological character of some intonational contrasts in Catalan. First, the article shows…”
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Multilingüismo y turismo: visiones desde la península de Yucatán y Mallorca by Uth, Melanie, Vanrell Bosch, María del Mar

“…El turismo es un fenómeno territorial de contacto lingüístico-cultural que tiene impactos importantes tanto en las sociedades receptoras como, aunque en menor…”
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