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This book explores recurring topics in Romance phonetics and phonology. Topics studied range 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 main aim of this book is to contribute to our understanding of the acquisition of second language intonation, by comparing Czech learners of Spanish with German learners of Spanish and Czech learners of Italian. By means of a large production database, the study seeks to uncover how L1-to-L2 intonational transfer works and what role prosodic (dis)similarities between languages play. Contrary to most previous research, the work presents an original multidirectional cross-linguistic comparison and examines different types of sentence, such as neutral and non-neutral statements, yes/no questions, wh-questions, exclamatives and vocatives. The findings reveal positive and negative transfer fr...
The Continuity of Linguistic Change presents a collection of selected papers in honour of Professor Juan Andrés Villena-Ponsoda. The essays revolve around the study of linguistic variation and the mechanisms and processes associated with linguistic change, a field to which Villena-Ponsoda has dedicated so many years of research. The authors are researchers of renowned international prestige who have made significant contributions in this field. The chapters cover a range of related topics and provide modern theoretical and methodological perspectives, addressing the structural, cognitive, historical and social factors that underlie and promote linguistic change in varieties of Dutch, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish and Swedish. The reader will find contributions that explore topics such as phonology, acoustic phonetics and processes deriving from the contact between languages or linguistic varieties, specifically levelling, koineisation, standardisation and the emergence of ethnolects.
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El objetivo central de este libro es contribuir a llenar el vacío de la bibliografía introductoria en la lingüística mexicana. Se brindan para ello temáticas distintas, se plantean muchas y diversas preguntas de investigación, se ofrecen diferentes marcos teóricos, métodos de trabajo e incluso estilos de redacción para responderlas; se plantea un acercamiento a la fonología del zapoteco, a la lengua de señas mexicana, al tratamiento del español desde la sintaxis, la semántica, la terminología y el discurso; se ofrecen posibilidades de análisis desde la ingeniería lingüística, la dialectología perceptual y la historia de la lexicografía. Mirado como un todo, este libro plantea un rico mosaico de inquietudes e invita al lector a sumarse al eco de nuestras Voces...