Browsing by Author "Morgan, Terrell A."

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Intonation across Spanish, in the Tones and Break Indices framework
(Probus: International Journal of Romance Linguistics, 2006-01-23) Beckman, Mary E.; Díaz-Campos, Manuel; McGory, Julia Tevis; Morgan, Terrell A.
This paper describes some of the more salient intonational phenomena of Spanish, and reviews several of the most pressing questions that remain to be addressed before a definitive model of the system can be incorporated into a consensus transcription system for the language. The phenomena reviewed include the metrical underpinnings of the tune, and some of the local tone shapes that are anchored at stressed syllables or at phrase edges in several common intonation contours. The description of known facts is couched in the Autosegmental-Metrical model of intonational phonology, as is the review of outstanding questions. The description is used to motivate the preliminary transcription conventions proposed by the Spanish ToBI development group.
On the Production and Perception of Spanish Palatal Obstruents: An Acoustic Phonetic Study with Implications for Phonology, Dialectology, and Pedagogy
(Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2002) Díaz-Campos, Manuel; Morgan, Terrell A.
The present paper is just one part of a larger study, still in progress, which brings to the table an array of phonetic details that add to our understanding of the behavior of on four fronts: (1) a comparison of the production and reception of various palatal variants by native Spanish speakers and English speaking students of the language: (2) the behavior of the palatal obstruent phoneme in other Spanish dialects, especially those in which the consonant is known to weaken or delete intervocalically (Lipski 1094); (3) resyllabification of the wordy 'and' with a following vowel; and (4) resyllabification contexts in which word-final is followed by a vowel.