TY - BOOK ID - 87657706 TI - Prosodies: with special reference to Iberian languages AU - Frota, Sónia AU - Vigário, Marina AU - Freitas, Maria João PY - 2005 SN - 9783110184440 3110184443 9786612073113 3119167088 1282073117 3110197588 PB - Berlin Mouton de Gruyter DB - UniCat KW - Phonetics KW - Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Phonetics. KW - Phonology. KW - Articulatory phonetics KW - Orthoepy KW - Phonology KW - Linguistics KW - Speech KW - Multidimensional phonology KW - Polysystemic phonology KW - Prosodic phonology KW - Speaking styles KW - Philology KW - Grammar, Comparative and general Phonology KW - linguistic typology. KW - phonetics. KW - phonology. KW - syntax. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:87657706 AB - Prosodies, in the broad Firthian sense, covers phenomena that extend over stretches of segmental and featural units that must be examined with respect to their interaction with other features to fully appreciate their role in the phonetics and phonology of a given language. The papers deal with a wide range of subjects, from intonational prominence and prosodic phrasing to the acoustic properties of segments and features. Prosodies significantly broadens our knowledge of languages and dialect varieties that as yet have not been carefully investigated such as Cairene and Lebanese Arabic, Catalan including Central Catalan and the insular dialects of Majorcan, Minorcan and Alguer Catalan, Galician, Italian, various dialects of Portuguese (Standard European, Northern European, and Brazilian Portuguese), and different varieties of Argentine Spanish as well as Peninsular Spanish. However, well-known West Germanic languages, English, Dutch and German, have not been neglected. Many of the contributions are the first account of the phenomena addressed in the language(s) under consideration thus bringing new data to light. Moreover, most papers take a cross-linguistic or cross-dialectal view favouring a better understanding of language similarities and differences, as well as of language variation and change. This approach is crucial in the case of neighbouring languages/varieties and is an important contribution to the development of language typologies. And as is characteristic of the series, the research presented in Prosodies cover laboratory approaches as well as theoretical investigations. ER -