Remanence of sentence prosody in Romance languages
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2016/07/0001/000260Keywords:
intonation, prosody, Romance languages, stress, prosodic grammarAbstract
Romance languages uses surprisingly similar melodic contours to encode the sentence prosodic structure. The fact that these contours are governed by similar prosodic grammars and that similar stress rules are also applicable to these languages (except on French deprived of lexical stress) suggests that these phonological facts are inherited from Latin without much change, despite the constant evolution occurred during twenty centuries.
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