Pilar Prieto
List of John Benjamins publications in which Pilar Prieto is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2213-3887
Titles
The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition
Edited by Pilar Prieto and Núria Esteve-Gibert
Prosodic development is increasingly recognized as a fundamental stepping stone in first language acquisition. Prosodic sensitivity starts developing very early, with newborns becoming attuned to the prosodic properties of the ambient language, and it continues to develop during childhood until… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 23] 2018. vi, 368 pp.
Segmental and prosodic issues in Romance phonology
Edited by Pilar Prieto, Joan Mascaró and Maria-Josep Solé
This volume is a collection of cutting-edge research papers written by well-known researchers in the field of Romance phonetics and phonology. An important goal of this book is to bridge the gap between traditional Romance linguistics — with its long and rich tradition in data collection,… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 282] 2007. xvi, 262 pp.
2024 Towards a novel conceptualization of prosody that accounts for spoken and visual signals: The modality-neutral prosodic framework hypothesis Gesture 23:1/2, pp. 119–159 | Article
Prosody influences speech organization by signaling phrasal prominence, grouping patterns, and speakers’ pragmatic intentions. While traditionally viewed as restricted to speech, research shows prosody is also conveyed visually. This article reviews research showing strong parallels between… read more
2023 A pedagogical note on teaching L2 prosody and speech sounds using hand gestures Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 9:3, pp. 340–349 | Article
This paper reports the pedagogical decisions in Li et al. (2023) “The effectiveness of embodied prosodic training in L2 accentedness and vowel accuracy” published in Second Language Research. The study revealed that embodied prosodic training improved the overall pronunciation skills of… read more
2018 Chapter 12. Early development of the prosody-meaning interface The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition, Prieto, Pilar and Núria Esteve-Gibert (eds.), pp. 227–246 | Chapter
This chapter reviews evidence on how infants up to 18 months of age develop the ability to use prosody as a sign of the expression of pragmatic meanings, from both a comprehension and a production point of view. Developmental research reveals that pre-lexical infants use prosodic information not… read more
2018 Chapter 1. Introduction: An overview of research on prosodic development The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition, Prieto, Pilar and Núria Esteve-Gibert (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter
2016 Cost of the action and social distance affect the selection of question intonation in Catalan Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields, Armstrong, Meghan E., Nicholas Henriksen and Maria del Mar Vanrell (eds.), pp. 93–114 | Article
This chapter examines how politeness in offers and requests is encoded by intonation in Catalan, a language which uses two distinct intonational pitch contours for unbiased yes-no questions. Fifteen Central Catalan speakers participated in a Discourse Completion Task that elicited offers and… read more
2016 Prosodic and gestural features distinguish the intention of pointing gestures in child-directed communication Intonational Grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields, Armstrong, Meghan E., Nicholas Henriksen and Maria del Mar Vanrell (eds.), pp. 251–276 | Article
Previous literature had found that infants rely on the social-contextual information to understand the pragmatic meaning of a pointing gesture. Our study investigates the prosodic and gesture features accompanying a pointing gesture that infants may also use to infer its meaning. Nine… read more
2009 Perception of word stress in Castilian Spanish: The effects of sentence intonation and vowel type Phonetics and Phonology: Interactions and interrelations, Vigário, Marina, Sónia Frota and M. João Freitas (eds.), pp. 35–50 | Article
We provide evidence for the perception of the stress contrast in unaccented contexts in Spanish. Twenty participants were asked to identify oxytone words which varied orthogonally in two bi-dimensional paroxytone-oxytone continua: one of duration and spectral tilt, and the other of duration and… read more
2009 Do complex pitch gestures induce syllable lengthening in Catalan and Spanish? Phonetics and Phonology: Interactions and interrelations, Vigário, Marina, Sónia Frota and M. João Freitas (eds.), pp. 51–70 | Article
In both Spanish and Catalan, narrow contrastive focus and presentational broad focus in nuclear position have different pitch accent choices, namely a rising or a falling pitch accent, respectively. In words with final stress, narrow contrastive focus displays a rise-fall complex pitch gesture in… read more
2007 The phonetics and phonology of intonational phrasing in Romance Segmental and prosodic issues in Romance phonology, Prieto, Pilar, Joan Mascaró and Maria-Josep Solé (eds.), pp. 131–153 | Article
This paper examines the phonetics and phonology of intonational boundaries in five Romance languages/varieties. A typology of the boundary cues used is given, as well as their relative frequency. The phonology of the tonal boundary gesture is described by means of the inventory of nuclear accents… read more
2007 Disentangling stress from accent in Spanish: Production patterns of the stress contrast in deaccented syllables Segmental and prosodic issues in Romance phonology, Prieto, Pilar, Joan Mascaró and Maria-Josep Solé (eds.), pp. 155–176 | Article
According to Sluijter and colleagues (1996b, 1997), stress is independent from accent because it has its own phonetic cues: stressed vowels are longer and have flatter spectral tilts than their unstressed counterparts. However, Campbell and Beckman (1997) show that, for American English, these… read more
2006 Exceptional hiatuses in Spanish Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology, Martínez-Gil, Fernando and Sonia Colina (eds.), pp. 205–238 | Article
This paper provides a close examination of how Spanish speakers syllabify sequences of vocoids of rising sonority within the lexicon (e.g., piano ‘piano’, persiana ‘blind’ or historia ‘history’). A survey with 246 words administered to 15 Peninsular Spanish speakers has enabled us to examine in a… read more
2006 Phonological phrasing in Spanish Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology, Martínez-Gil, Fernando and Sonia Colina (eds.), pp. 39–61 | Article
This article investigates the role of syntactic and prosodic markedness constraints on the construction of phonological phrases (φ- or p-phrases) in Peninsular Spanish. The data come from a reading task of a corpus composed of 85 utterances with a wide variety of structures and constituent lengths.… read more
2000 Vowel Lengthening in Milanese Phonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy, Repetti, Lori (ed.), pp. 255–272 | Article
1996 The absence or presence of a declination effect on the descent of F0 peaks? Evidence from Mexican Spanish Grammatical Theory and Romance Languages: Selected papers from the 25th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL XXV) Seattle, 2–4 March 1995, Zagona, Karen (ed.), pp. 197–208 | Article
1993 The PA effect of coronals on vowels in Romance Linguistic Perspectives on Romance Languages: Selected Papers from the XXI Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Santa Barbara, February 21–24, 1991, Ashby, William J., Marianne Mithun and Giorgio Perissinotto (eds.), pp. 85–96 | To be specified