Intonational Phrasing in Romance and Germanic -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Part I. Phrasing across languages -- Correlates of phrasing in French and German from an experiment with semi-spontaneous speech -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Experiment -- 2.1 Materials and procedure -- 2.2 Participants, recordings and analysis -- 3. Correlates of phrasing in German -- 3.1 Tones and scaling of register -- 3.2 Postnuclear deaccenting -- 3.3 Duration -- 4. Correlates of phrasing in French -- 4.1 Scaling of tones -- 4.2 Demarcative function of tones -- 4.3 Duration -- 5. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- The multi-facetted relation between phrasing and intonation contours in French -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 How phrasing constrains intonational realization -- 1.2 How phrasing constrains pitch accent distribution -- 1.3 Rate effects on phrasing and intonation -- 1.4 Hypotheses -- 2. Methods -- 2.1 Materials -- 2.2 Participants and procedure -- 2.3 Auditory and acoustic analysis -- 3. Results -- 3.1 The algorithm for PP formation and PP final accents -- 3.2 Rate effects on Phonological Phrase formation -- 3.3 Rate effects on pitch accent distribution -- 3.4 Rate effects on pitch accent realization -- 4. Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B. Experimental items -- Phrasing, register level downstep and partial topic constructions in Neapolitan Italian -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Syntax and phrasing -- 1.2 Discourse structure and phrasing -- 1.3 Signaling information structure and pitch accent types in Italian -- 1.4 Hypotheses -- 2. Method -- 2.1 Corpus -- 2.2 Procedure -- 2.3 Measurements -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Lengthening at boundary -- 3.2 Postboundary range compression -- 4. Discussion -- References.

Part II. Phrasing of languages in contact -- Phrase boundary distribution in Catalan -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aims and predictions -- 3. Data corpus and methodology -- 3.1 Data corpus -- 3.2 Data collection and processing -- 3.3 Methodology -- 4. Analysis of boundary cue production -- 4.1 Boundary cues signaled by pitch -- 4.2 Boundary cues signaled by duration -- 4.3 Boundary cues signaled by intensity -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Frequency of boundary cues -- 5.2 Phrase accents, boundary tones and nuclear pitch accents -- 5.3 Agreement on boundary distribution -- 6. Discussion -- 6.1 Boundary cues signaled by pitch -- 6.2 Boundary cues signaled by duration -- 6.3 Boundary cues signaled by intensity -- 6.4 Agreement on boundary distribution -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Prosodic phrasing in the spontaneous speech of an Occitan/French bilingual -- 1. Introduction: A research project on "Intonation in language contact: Occitan and French" -- 2. Language contact between Occitan and French -- 3. Intonation in Romance -- 3.1 The Autosegmental-Metrical framework -- 3.2 The adaptation of the AM framework to French and Occitan -- 3.3 Studies on bilingual intonation -- 4. Analysis of Occitan and French conversation from a bilingual speaker -- 4.1 General remarks -- 4.2 The Occitan text segment -- 4.3 The MF text segment -- 5. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Prosodic phrasing in Porteño Spanish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Porteño Spanish -- 3. Prosodic phrasing in (Peninsular) Spanish and Italian -- 4. Methods and data -- 5. Results -- 5.1 Tonal marking of ip boundaries -- 5.2 Durational marking of ip boundaries -- 5.3 Discussion -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Broad-focus declaratives in Argentine Spanish contact and non-contact varieties -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Buenos Aires Spanish intonation: A contact-induced change?.

1.2 Spanish intonation: Argentine Spanish vs. other Spanish varieties -- 2. Intonation of the languages in contact with Argentine Spanish and contact varieties of Spanish -- 2.1 Italian intonation -- 2.2 Guarani intonation -- 2.3 Intonation and contact -- 3. Current study -- 3.1 Prolegomena: Laboratory speech vs. spontaneous speech -- 3.2 Goals and predictions -- 3.3 Methodology -- 4. Results of current study -- 4.1 Prenuclear accents -- 4.2 Nuclear accents -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1 BAS vs. other Argentine varieties -- 5.2 The contact hypothesis revisited -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Comparing cues of phrasing in German and Spanish child monolingual and bilingual acquisition -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Phrase boundaries and their phonetic cues -- 1.2 Phonetic cues in Spanish and in German -- 2. The empirical study: Aims, data and methodology -- 2.1 Data -- 2.2 Methodology -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Monolinguals -- 3.2 Bilinguals -- 3.3 Summary of results and discussion -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix -- Index -- The series Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism.