Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (August 4, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0199685339
ISBN-13: 978-0199685332
This book offers the first comprehensive description of the prosody of nine Romance languages that takes into account internal dialectal variation. Teams of experts examine the prosody of Catalan, French, Friulian, Italian, Occitan, Portuguese, Romanian, Sardinian, and Spanish using the Autosegmental Metrical framework of intonational phonology and the Tones and Breaks Indices (ToBI) transcription system.