Prosody and Focus in European Portuguese: Phonological Phrasing and Intonation (Hardcover)

Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Introduction; Prosodic Phonology; Intonational Phonology; Prosodic and Intonational Structure; Focus; Work on the Intonation of EP; Work on the Prosodic Structure of EP; A Note on Laboratory Phonology Research; Outline of this study; Chapter 2: On Sandhi; Introduction; The Experiment; Results and Discussion; Conclusions and Theoretical Consequences: the EP facts and the Prosodic Hierarchy; Chapter 3: On Clashes; Introduction; The Experiment; Results and Discussion; Conclusions and Final Discussion; Chapter 4: On Boundary Strength; Introduction; Results and Discussion; Final Conclusions and Consequences: on the Status of the f and I in EP; Chapter 5:On Intonation and Prosodic Phrasing; Introduction; Declaration Intonation; Neutral, Focus and Topic Utterances: a Final Production Experiment; Intonational Structure; An Integrated View: Intonation and Prosodic Phrasing (concluding remarks); Chapter 6: On the Perception of Focus: An Experiment ; Introduction; Background and Predictions; The Experiment; Speech Materials; Results and Discussion; Conclusions and Final Discussion; Chapter 7: Conclusion and Further Issues; Summary; Directions of Future Research; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.