The most debated syntactic reflex that is typically associated with contrast is the movement
of a contrastive constituent to a dedicated, left-peripheral position. For Italian and Spanish, it …

The growing interest in the interfaces of prosody with other areas, notably pragmatics, has
led to an interesting cross-fertilization of methods such as the Discourse Completion Task …

In this paper, we investigate the phonological and prosodic effects of lenition in Canary
Islands Spanish using new methodology. In the course of a motion capture study conducted …

Are our concepts from prosodic typology, like word stress, pitch accent, head-/edge-
prominence, really that tightly linked to individual languages? How are meanings often …

Focus is a key notion to understand processes of syntactic and prosodic readjustments in
Romance. Since, prosodically, it must be the most prominent constituent in the sentence …

Greek and Spanish are two languages that display a similar subject distribution with
unergative/unaccusative verbs, but different word orders with focused subjects (SV in Greek …

A production experiment was run to examine how information structure and verbal
semantics affect word ordering and nuclear stress placement in intransitive sentences in …

La generalización de Zubizarreta (1998, 1999), según la cual en español los sujetos que
reciben el foco informativo no pueden permanecer en la posición inicial y deben moverse …

In Catalan,/n/deletes in word-final position when it is preceded by a stressed vowel. In this
paper, we present an analysis that combines the representations of Strict CV and the …

The literature on focus in Spanish contains a divide between theoretical claims and
quantitative empirical evidence: While Spanish is often regarded as resorting to syntactic …