Abstract
The edited volume, Intonation in Romance, comprises eleven chapters: nine content chapters summarise the results of detailed prosodic analysis of intonation patterns across varieties of a particular Romance language, and are framed by an introduction and conclusion by the editors. The languages treated include those whose intonation systems have received much attention (Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish), alongside less-studied languages (Friulian, Occitan, Romanian and Sardinian). All chapters used the same methods of data collection and analysis: parallel data across languages was elicited with a common set of dialogue completion tasks; intonation patterns in the data are analysed on the basis of a shared implementation of the Tone and Break Indices (ToBI) model of prosodic annotation, within the Autosegmental-Metrical framework. These shared methods inform direct comparison of Romance intonation patterns and systems, within and across languages, to identify the scope and potential causes of variation, as well as avenues for future research.
Highlights
The edited volume Intonation in Romance brings together the work of more than 40 researchers across nine research teams, each working on a different Romance language, who participated in the Romance Tones and Break Indices workshop held in Tarragona, Spain, in June 2011
Each research team developed an analysis of the intonation patterns in their language using i) data collected by means of a common data elicitation methodology, and ii) a shared set of Tone and Break Indices (ToBI) labels for qualitative prosodic annotation of the data
The ToBI notation used in the earlier project is adapted here to match the agreed label set adopted for Romance, but some potentially non-contrastive distinctions are retained in the annotation, for example, in the case of differing alignment in rising accents with increasingly delayed peaks: L + H*, L +
Summary
The edited volume Intonation in Romance brings together the work of more than 40 researchers across nine research teams, each working on a different Romance language, who participated in the Romance Tones and Break Indices workshop held in Tarragona, Spain, in June 2011. Each research team developed an analysis of the intonation patterns in their language using i) data collected by means of a common data elicitation methodology (parallel set of discourse completion tasks), and ii) a shared set of ToBI labels for qualitative prosodic annotation of the data.
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