The Intonational Phonology of Catalan
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This chapter presents an analysis of the prosodic and intonational structure of Catalan within the Autosegmental-Metrical (AM) framework (Pierrehumbert 1980, Pierrehumbert and Beckman 1988, Ladd 1996, Gussenhoven 2004, Jun 2005, and Beckman et al. 2005, among others). Based on this analysis, we have developed the Cat_ToBI system of prosodic annotation of Catalan corpora (Prieto, Aguilar, Mascaró, Torres & Vanrell 2009). This chapter will concentrate mainly on a description of the Catalan prosodic phrasing and intonation, by describing the basic intonational tunes found in the language and by exemplifying the intonational categories with utterances that provide evidence for minimal phonological contrasts.
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