1. Introduction This paper analyses a number of word order alternations observed in relative clauses in Spanish and concludes that they are the result of intonational considerations. However, it is shown that the relevant intonational factors are not the same as those related to focalization (which is well-known to induce word order alternations in Spanish), but rather they relate to the relati...

Aim of this paper is providing a preliminary account of some intonational features useful for identifying a large number of Italian accents, estimated as representative of Italian regional variation, by analysing a corpus of comparable speech materials consisting of Map Task dialogues. Analysis concentrates on the intonational characteristics of yes-no questions, which can be realised very diff...

3 Introduction 3 Stress 6 Pause 6 Intonational contour 6 Method 8 Participants 8 Materials 8 Data analysis 9 Syntactic labeling 9 Identical words and SSWU 10 Prosodic labeling 11 Results 14 Intonational contour 14 Pauses 15 Syntactic categories 16 Conclusion 19 References 22