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Studies in bilingualism, Oct 14, 2023
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jul 31, 2023
Language, Sep 1, 1998
Accent, tone, and intonation in Lekeitio Basque• GORKA ELORDIETA Gorka Elordieta principled way, ... more Accent, tone, and intonation in Lekeitio Basque• GORKA ELORDIETA Gorka Elordieta principled way, empirical and theoretical problems that previous studies faced concerning the distribution of L and H tones not associated with pitch accents at the word level. The explanatory account we suggest avoids having to make recourse to extratonality and bidirectionality in the spreading of tones. At a more general level, it also provides theoretical support for a prosodic hierarchy theory of tonology, such as the one suggested by Pierrehumbert and Beckman (1988), based on Japanese. Of course, one should bear in mind that the observations on the intonational properties of this dialect do not necessarily extend to all other dialects of Basque. This language is divided into several dialects and local varieties, with phonological, morphological, and, to a lesser extent, syntactic differences among them. A cross-dialectal survey would be necessary to determine whether there exist substantial differences in intonation properties among Basque dialects. Such a task remains one of the pending issues in Basque dialectology, from which undoubtedly important observations on the grammatical structure of Basque can be drawn. This study will thus be a first step toward understanding the main characteristics of Basque intonation. This article is organized as follows: in section 1 I introduce the theoretical framework on which I base my analysis. In section 2 I present a discussion of the accentual system of Lekeitio Basque. Section 3 contains a discussion of the tonal patterns of words and phrases, with a criticism of past proposals to account for the facts. Section 4 is a review of the tone structure of Tokyo Japanese, as a preview to my analysis of Lekeitio Basque tone structure, P!"esented in section 5. Section 6 deals with the prosodic constraints on focalization, and section 7 is dedicated to an analysis of the basic intonational contours of the major sentence types in Lekeitio Basque. Finally, I summarize the conclusions drawn from the paper in section 8. 'watch' txakur 'dog' euli 'fly' itxurri 'fountain' ardi 'sheep' la gun 'friend' abade ' priest' etxe 'house' (2) a. pre.si.den.te (<Sp. presidente) 'president' hen. ta. na (< Sp. ventana) ' window' ar. b6. la (< Sp: arbol) 'tree' ma.kl.fla (<Sp. maquina) 'machine' bo.li.gra.fo (<Sp. bol{grafo) 'pen' le. ku (<Lat. locus) ' place' b. len.gu.su 'cousin' au.rre 'front' {n.txaur 'walnut' e.gi ' truth' a.tze 'back' bes.te 'other' be. la.rri 'ear' ha.so 'drinking glass' o.llas.ko 'chicken' bas.ka.ri 'lunch' 2.1 Stress in accented words ' 'watch' 'fly' 'sheep' 'priest' e te 'president' ' window' 'tree' 'machine' 'pen' 'place' 'front' 'truth' 'other' 'drinking glass' ka. ri 'lunch' ;ents an interesting difference such as Gernika or Getxo, nmediately preceding the one ded or to a lexically specified){), 199la, Hualde and Bilbao nted root sagar 'apple' in the 1 ffixes are added. From this emes /-'ak/ and /-'ata/, the 'tik/ are accented morphemes :y assign stress to the syllable included (taken from Hualde, Accent, tone, and intonation in Lekeitio Basque 9 (3) Indefinite Singular Plural ABS sa.gar sa.ga.rra sa.ga.rrak ERG sa.ga.rrek sa.ga.rrak sa.ga.rrak DAT sa. ga. rre. ri sa. ga. rra. ri sa. ga. rra. ri GEN sa.ga.rren sa.ga.rran sa.ga.rran BEN sa. ga. rren. tza. ko sa. ga. rran. tza. ko sa. ga. rran. tza. ko COM/INST sa. ga. rre. gas sa. ga. rra. gas sa. ga. rra. kas INES sa. ga. rre. tan sa.ga.rran sa. ga. rra. tan ALL sa. ga. rre. ta. ra sa. ga. rre. ra sa. ga. rra. ta. ra ABL sa. ga. rre. ta. tik sa. ga. rre. tik sa. ga. rra. ta. tik GEN-LOC sa. ga. rre. ta. ko sa. ga. rre. ko sa. ga. rra. ta. ko
Georgetown University Press eBooks, 1999
... conocimiento especial para Gail Grella, así como para Patricia Rayner y el personal de la cas... more ... conocimiento especial para Gail Grella, así como para Patricia Rayner y el personal de la casa editorial de Georgetown University por la ayuda técnica y paciencia que nos ... Rafael A. Núñez Cedeño University of Illinois at Chicago Alfonso Morales-Front Georgetown University ...
Research methods in applied linguistics, Feb 3, 2023
Advances in higher education and professional development book series, 2016
Despite intuitive and theoretically motivated claims that Study Abroad (SA) is an optimal environ... more Despite intuitive and theoretically motivated claims that Study Abroad (SA) is an optimal environment for language development, including pronunciation gains, research on its effectiveness has produced contradictory results. Furthermore, there is little known about short-term study abroad programs, where matriculation numbers are increasing faster than ever before. This chapter analyzes pre-and post-SA oral production data from 18 advanced learners of Spanish, focusing on stop consonants (/p, t, k, b, d, g/). Development was defined in terms of voice onset time for /p, t, k/ and a 5-point lenition measure for /b, d, g/. Learners produced significantly shorter VOT values after the SA program, though there was not a similar improvement in lenition score. Therefore, the intensive, six-week SA experience yielded substantial gains in L2 pronunciation for these advanced learners of Spanish. Results are discussed in light of advances in both research methodology and study abroad program design.
Hispania, Dec 1, 1998
This collection explores current issues in the phonology and morphology of the major Iberian lang... more This collection explores current issues in the phonology and morphology of the major Iberian languages: Basque, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish. Most of the essays are based on innovative theoretical frameworks and show how recent revolutions in theoretical ideas have affected the study of these languages. Distinguished scholars address a diverse range of topics, including: stress assignment, phonological variability, distribution of rhotics, the imperative paradigm, focus, pluralization, spirantization, intonation, prosody, apocope, epenthesis, palatalization, and depalatalization.
Routledge eBooks, Jun 22, 2018
John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, 1995
ON DELETION RULES IN CATALAN* ALFONSO MORALES University of Illinois 0. Introduction The problem ... more ON DELETION RULES IN CATALAN* ALFONSO MORALES University of Illinois 0. Introduction The problem of the interaction between rules and ... Clements and Keyser 1983; Prince 1984; Kiparsky 1985; Itô 1986; Archangeli and Pulleyblank 1986; Mascaró 1989; Scobbie 1991 ...
The Routledge Handbook of Study Abroad Research and Practice, 2018
John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, Feb 3, 2023
Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica (NRFH), 2000
Se reseñó el libro: Fonología generativa contemporánea de la lengua española.
The Handbook of Research on Study Abroad Programs and Outbound Mobility offers a comprehensive lo... more The Handbook of Research on Study Abroad Programs and Outbound Mobility offers a comprehensive look into motivations for and opportunities through all forms of outbound mobility programs. By providing empirically-based research, this publication establishes the benefits, difficulties, and rewards of building a framework to support international students and programs. It is an invaluable resource for academics, students, policy makers, course developers, counselors, and cross-cultural student advisors.
Journal of Linguistics, 1999
... Jaap van der Does & Jan van Eijck (eds.), Quantifiers, logic, and language (CSLI Lect... more ... Jaap van der Does & Jan van Eijck (eds.), Quantifiers, logic, and language (CSLI Lecture Notes ). ... The introduction 'Basic quantifier theory', by Jaap van der Does & Jan van Eijck, is the most explicit about relating logical and linguistic issues. ...
The Handbook of Advanced Proficiency in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
This comprehensive book provides an introduction to the latest concepts and principles of phonolo... more This comprehensive book provides an introduction to the latest concepts and principles of phonological analysis and applies these theories to the study of the Spanish language. With this helpful text, scholars and teachers of Hispanic linguistics will at last have access to the pertinent phonological issues, arguments, and data - all in one place, and in Spanish. This research-oriented study presents the most recent generative phonological theories and uses them to interpret Spanish data. In its discussion of phonological developments since the publication in 1968 of the revolutionary study, Chomsky's and Halle's "The Sound Pattern of English", the book demonstrates how newer models of understanding are able to explain linguistic phenomena that older hypotheses could not adequately address. This essential reference will bring scholars of Spanish linguistics to the forefront of knowledge in phonological research. Containing numerous examples and easily adapted for c...
The Routledge Handbook of Study Abroad Research and Practice
Studies in bilingualism, Oct 14, 2023
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jul 31, 2023
Language, Sep 1, 1998
Accent, tone, and intonation in Lekeitio Basque• GORKA ELORDIETA Gorka Elordieta principled way, ... more Accent, tone, and intonation in Lekeitio Basque• GORKA ELORDIETA Gorka Elordieta principled way, empirical and theoretical problems that previous studies faced concerning the distribution of L and H tones not associated with pitch accents at the word level. The explanatory account we suggest avoids having to make recourse to extratonality and bidirectionality in the spreading of tones. At a more general level, it also provides theoretical support for a prosodic hierarchy theory of tonology, such as the one suggested by Pierrehumbert and Beckman (1988), based on Japanese. Of course, one should bear in mind that the observations on the intonational properties of this dialect do not necessarily extend to all other dialects of Basque. This language is divided into several dialects and local varieties, with phonological, morphological, and, to a lesser extent, syntactic differences among them. A cross-dialectal survey would be necessary to determine whether there exist substantial differences in intonation properties among Basque dialects. Such a task remains one of the pending issues in Basque dialectology, from which undoubtedly important observations on the grammatical structure of Basque can be drawn. This study will thus be a first step toward understanding the main characteristics of Basque intonation. This article is organized as follows: in section 1 I introduce the theoretical framework on which I base my analysis. In section 2 I present a discussion of the accentual system of Lekeitio Basque. Section 3 contains a discussion of the tonal patterns of words and phrases, with a criticism of past proposals to account for the facts. Section 4 is a review of the tone structure of Tokyo Japanese, as a preview to my analysis of Lekeitio Basque tone structure, P!"esented in section 5. Section 6 deals with the prosodic constraints on focalization, and section 7 is dedicated to an analysis of the basic intonational contours of the major sentence types in Lekeitio Basque. Finally, I summarize the conclusions drawn from the paper in section 8. 'watch' txakur 'dog' euli 'fly' itxurri 'fountain' ardi 'sheep' la gun 'friend' abade ' priest' etxe 'house' (2) a. pre.si.den.te (<Sp. presidente) 'president' hen. ta. na (< Sp. ventana) ' window' ar. b6. la (< Sp: arbol) 'tree' ma.kl.fla (<Sp. maquina) 'machine' bo.li.gra.fo (<Sp. bol{grafo) 'pen' le. ku (<Lat. locus) ' place' b. len.gu.su 'cousin' au.rre 'front' {n.txaur 'walnut' e.gi ' truth' a.tze 'back' bes.te 'other' be. la.rri 'ear' ha.so 'drinking glass' o.llas.ko 'chicken' bas.ka.ri 'lunch' 2.1 Stress in accented words ' 'watch' 'fly' 'sheep' 'priest' e te 'president' ' window' 'tree' 'machine' 'pen' 'place' 'front' 'truth' 'other' 'drinking glass' ka. ri 'lunch' ;ents an interesting difference such as Gernika or Getxo, nmediately preceding the one ded or to a lexically specified){), 199la, Hualde and Bilbao nted root sagar 'apple' in the 1 ffixes are added. From this emes /-'ak/ and /-'ata/, the 'tik/ are accented morphemes :y assign stress to the syllable included (taken from Hualde, Accent, tone, and intonation in Lekeitio Basque 9 (3) Indefinite Singular Plural ABS sa.gar sa.ga.rra sa.ga.rrak ERG sa.ga.rrek sa.ga.rrak sa.ga.rrak DAT sa. ga. rre. ri sa. ga. rra. ri sa. ga. rra. ri GEN sa.ga.rren sa.ga.rran sa.ga.rran BEN sa. ga. rren. tza. ko sa. ga. rran. tza. ko sa. ga. rran. tza. ko COM/INST sa. ga. rre. gas sa. ga. rra. gas sa. ga. rra. kas INES sa. ga. rre. tan sa.ga.rran sa. ga. rra. tan ALL sa. ga. rre. ta. ra sa. ga. rre. ra sa. ga. rra. ta. ra ABL sa. ga. rre. ta. tik sa. ga. rre. tik sa. ga. rra. ta. tik GEN-LOC sa. ga. rre. ta. ko sa. ga. rre. ko sa. ga. rra. ta. ko
Georgetown University Press eBooks, 1999
... conocimiento especial para Gail Grella, así como para Patricia Rayner y el personal de la cas... more ... conocimiento especial para Gail Grella, así como para Patricia Rayner y el personal de la casa editorial de Georgetown University por la ayuda técnica y paciencia que nos ... Rafael A. Núñez Cedeño University of Illinois at Chicago Alfonso Morales-Front Georgetown University ...
Research methods in applied linguistics, Feb 3, 2023
Advances in higher education and professional development book series, 2016
Despite intuitive and theoretically motivated claims that Study Abroad (SA) is an optimal environ... more Despite intuitive and theoretically motivated claims that Study Abroad (SA) is an optimal environment for language development, including pronunciation gains, research on its effectiveness has produced contradictory results. Furthermore, there is little known about short-term study abroad programs, where matriculation numbers are increasing faster than ever before. This chapter analyzes pre-and post-SA oral production data from 18 advanced learners of Spanish, focusing on stop consonants (/p, t, k, b, d, g/). Development was defined in terms of voice onset time for /p, t, k/ and a 5-point lenition measure for /b, d, g/. Learners produced significantly shorter VOT values after the SA program, though there was not a similar improvement in lenition score. Therefore, the intensive, six-week SA experience yielded substantial gains in L2 pronunciation for these advanced learners of Spanish. Results are discussed in light of advances in both research methodology and study abroad program design.
Hispania, Dec 1, 1998
This collection explores current issues in the phonology and morphology of the major Iberian lang... more This collection explores current issues in the phonology and morphology of the major Iberian languages: Basque, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish. Most of the essays are based on innovative theoretical frameworks and show how recent revolutions in theoretical ideas have affected the study of these languages. Distinguished scholars address a diverse range of topics, including: stress assignment, phonological variability, distribution of rhotics, the imperative paradigm, focus, pluralization, spirantization, intonation, prosody, apocope, epenthesis, palatalization, and depalatalization.
Routledge eBooks, Jun 22, 2018
John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, 1995
ON DELETION RULES IN CATALAN* ALFONSO MORALES University of Illinois 0. Introduction The problem ... more ON DELETION RULES IN CATALAN* ALFONSO MORALES University of Illinois 0. Introduction The problem of the interaction between rules and ... Clements and Keyser 1983; Prince 1984; Kiparsky 1985; Itô 1986; Archangeli and Pulleyblank 1986; Mascaró 1989; Scobbie 1991 ...
The Routledge Handbook of Study Abroad Research and Practice, 2018
John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, Feb 3, 2023
Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica (NRFH), 2000
Se reseñó el libro: Fonología generativa contemporánea de la lengua española.
The Handbook of Research on Study Abroad Programs and Outbound Mobility offers a comprehensive lo... more The Handbook of Research on Study Abroad Programs and Outbound Mobility offers a comprehensive look into motivations for and opportunities through all forms of outbound mobility programs. By providing empirically-based research, this publication establishes the benefits, difficulties, and rewards of building a framework to support international students and programs. It is an invaluable resource for academics, students, policy makers, course developers, counselors, and cross-cultural student advisors.
Journal of Linguistics, 1999
... Jaap van der Does & Jan van Eijck (eds.), Quantifiers, logic, and language (CSLI Lect... more ... Jaap van der Does & Jan van Eijck (eds.), Quantifiers, logic, and language (CSLI Lecture Notes ). ... The introduction 'Basic quantifier theory', by Jaap van der Does & Jan van Eijck, is the most explicit about relating logical and linguistic issues. ...
The Handbook of Advanced Proficiency in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
This comprehensive book provides an introduction to the latest concepts and principles of phonolo... more This comprehensive book provides an introduction to the latest concepts and principles of phonological analysis and applies these theories to the study of the Spanish language. With this helpful text, scholars and teachers of Hispanic linguistics will at last have access to the pertinent phonological issues, arguments, and data - all in one place, and in Spanish. This research-oriented study presents the most recent generative phonological theories and uses them to interpret Spanish data. In its discussion of phonological developments since the publication in 1968 of the revolutionary study, Chomsky's and Halle's "The Sound Pattern of English", the book demonstrates how newer models of understanding are able to explain linguistic phenomena that older hypotheses could not adequately address. This essential reference will bring scholars of Spanish linguistics to the forefront of knowledge in phonological research. Containing numerous examples and easily adapted for c...
The Routledge Handbook of Study Abroad Research and Practice