Prosody and Focus in European Portuguese: Phonological Phrasing and Intonation

Cover
Title Page
Original Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
	1.0. Introduction
	1.1. Prosodic Phonology
	1.1.1. The Syntax-Phonology Mapping
	1.1.2. The Prosodic Domains
	1.1.3. The Properties of Prosodic Structure
	1.2. Intonational Phonology
	1.2.1. The Phonological Approach to Intonation
	1.2.2. The Tonal Events
	1.2.3. The Properties of Intonational Structure
	1.3. Prosodic and Intonational Structure
	1.3.1. The Intonational View
	1.3.2. On Intonational Phrasing
	1.3.3. An Integrated View
	1.4. Focus
	1.4.1. Notion(s) of Focus
	1.4.2. On Focus from three different angles
	1.4.3. Focus Discourse-Configurational Languages
	1.4.4. Focus in Prosody
	1.5. Work on the Intonation of EP
	1.5.1. The 'Phonetic' Approach
	1.5.2. The 'Phonological' Approach
	1.5.3. On Prominence
	1.6. Work on the Prosodic Structure of EP
	1.7. A Note on Laboratory Phonology Research
	1.8. Outline of this study
Chapter 2: On sandhi
	2.0. Introduction
	2.1. The Experiment
	2.2. Results and Discussion
	2.2.1. Fricative Voicing
	2.2.2. Syllable Degemination
	2.2.3. Vowel Adjacency Resolution Processes
	2.2.4. Focus and Phonological Phrasing
	2.3. Conclusions and Theoretical Consequences: the EP facts and the Prosodic Hierarchy
Chapter 3: On Clashes
	3.0. Introduction
	3.1. The Experiment
	3.2. Results and Discussion
	3.2.1. Duration
	3.2.2. Fundamental Frequency
	3.2.3. Focus and Clashes
	3.3. Conclusions and Final Discussion
Chapter 4: On Boundary Strength
	4.0. Introduction
	4.1. The Experiment
	4.2. Results and Discussion
	4.2.1. General Results
	4.2.2. The φ-boundary
	4.2.3. The I-boundary
	4.3. Final Conclusions and Consequences: on the Status of φ and I in EP
Chapter 5: On Intonation and Prosodic Phrasing
	5.0. Introduction
	5.1. Declarative Intonation
	5.1.1. Neutral Utterances
	5.1.2. Focus: Prominence and Intonation
	5.2. Neutral, Focus, and Topic Utterances: a Final Production Experiment
	5.2.1. Background and Claims
	5.2.2. The Experiment
	5.2.3. Prosodic Phrasing
	5.2.4. Intonation and Phrasing
	5.3. Intonational Structure
	5.3.1. Globality or Locality
	5.3.2. Association, Alignment and Meaning: two HL Nuclei
	5.3.3. A Postnuclear Pitch Accent?
	5.3.4. Summary
	5.4. An Integrated View: Intonation and Prosodic Phrasing (Concluding Remarks)
Chapter 6. On the Perception of Focus: an Experiment
	6.0. Introduction
	6.1. Background and Predictions
	6.2. The Experiment
	6.2.1. Speech Materials
	6.2.2. Procedure
	6.3. Results and Discussion
	6.3.1. General Results
	6.3.2. 'Category' Type: Focus, Topic and Neutral
	6.3.3. Position in the Utterance: Early or Late
	6.3.4. Distance between Stresses or Accents
	6.4. Conclusions and Final Discussion
Chapter 7: Conclusion and Further Issues
	7.1. Summary
	7.2. Final Remarks: the EP Facts in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective
	7.2.1. On the Syntax-Phonology Mapping
	7.2.2. On the Phonology of Focus: Two Major Types of Languages?
	7.3. Directions of Future Research
Appendices
	Appendix I (Chapter 2)
	Appendix II (Chapter 3)
	Appendix III (Chapter 4)
	Appendix IV (Chapter 5)
	Appendix V (Chapter 6)
Bibliography
Index