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Article: Spanish evidence for pitch-accent structure *.
- Article from:
- Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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Abstract
This paper considers the ability of the standard view of the pitch accent and two alternative views to account for the tonal-alignment data of two bitonal rising pitch accents in Spanish (one of which is used in cases of broad focus and the other in cases of contrastive focus). It is shown that there is a difference in the relationship between the tones from one pitch accent to the other. The standard view of the pitch accent, which does not assume that pitch accents have an internal structure, is unable to account for such a difference. Postulating that pitch accents have an internal structure allows for an analysis of the two Spanish pitch accents that ...
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Dictionary definition: stress
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics;
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... ... into stress accents , in which the differences reflect or are thought to reflect greater muscular energy in the production of an accented syllable, and pitch accents . The accent in English, as in below and billow , is a stress accent.
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