Phrasal Prominences do not need Pitch Movements: Postfocal Phrasal Heads in Italian
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Informationally Given phrases following an instance of focus are generally realized in a compressed pitch range and are assumed to lack prosodic prominences above the word level. In this paper, we address the question of the metrical representation of postfocal constituents in Tuscan Italian. The results of a production experiment show that, despite their being realized with a low and flat F0 contour, postfocal constituents are not extrametrical, but are phrased and assigned metrical prominences of phrasal level. The impact of our results on the prosodic representation of Italian is discussed.
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