Maria Del Mar Vanrell
Biographic Data
| ID | 143909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Del Mar Vanrell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria Del Mar |
| FAMILY NAME | Vanrell |
| SIGNATURE | VANRELL M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4332-481X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Children’s Comprehension of Evidentiality Through Intonation in Majorcan Catalan
This paper investigates the developmental trajectory for children’s comprehension of evidential marking of directly perceived evidence through intonation in Majorcan Catalan (MC). Additionally, we aimed to explore children’s general source monitoring abilities and their capacity to make inferences based on directly perceived information. Given that evidential comprehension tends to develop relatively late when marked morphosyntactically, we hypot…
Hypocoristic truncation in Sardinian
This article focuses on hypocoristic truncation in Sardinian. Besides disyllabic truncation, hypocoristic truncation in Sardinian also yields trisyllabic truncated forms by means of a process of reduplicative prefixation (e.g.,Totore ← Servatore) and, more interestingly, a process of copy of what is analyzed as an internally layered ternary foot (e.g.,(Va(tore)) ← Servatore). In this paper we develop an OT analysis of hypocoristic truncation base…
Opacity in Campidanian Sardinian metaphony
Experimental Evidence for the Role of Intonation in Evidential Marking
This paper investigates the role of intonation in the marking of directly-perceived information in Majorcan Catalan polar questions. We conducted a perception experiment in which a total of 72 participants were introduced to a set of twins who were exposed to different types of evidence for a given p (roposition). One twin inferred p based on direct sensory information (via one of the five senses), while the other had been told that p by a third …
The role of pitch range in establishing intonational contrasts
One of the unresolved issues in the field of intonational phonology is whether pitch accent range differences are used by languages to express discrete linguistic distinctions. In Catalan, as in some other Romance languages, a rising-falling nuclear pitch contour - i.e. a rising pitch accent associated with the utterance-final stressed syllable followed by a Low boundary tone - can be used to convey three different pragmatic meanings depending on…
Intonation as an Encoder of Speaker Certainty: Information and Confirmation Yes-No Questions in Catalan
Recent studies in the field of intonational phonology have shown that information-seeking questions can be distinguished from confirmation-seeking questions by prosodic means in a variety of languages (Armstrong, 2010, for Puerto Rican Spanish; Grice & Savino, 1997, for Bari Italian; Kügler, 2003, for Leipzig German; Mata & Santos, 2010, for European Portuguese; Vanrell, Mascaró, Prieto, & Torres-Tamarit, 2010, for Catalan). However, all these st…
Tonal Targets in Early Child English, Spanish, and Catalan
This study analyses the scaling and alignment of low and high intonational targets in the speech of 27 children – nine English-speaking, nine Catalan-speaking and nine Spanish-speaking – between the ages of two and six years. We compared the intonational patterns of words controlled for number of syllables and stress position in the child speech to the adult target speech provided by their mothers, and to a dataset of adult-directed speech record…
Prosodic manifestations of the Effort Code in Catalan, Italian and Spanish contrastive focus
This paper investigates the relevance of three prosodic parameters (alignment, duration and scaling) in the conveyance of contrastive focus in Catalan, Italian and Spanish. In particular, we seek to determine how the Effort Code is instantiated in the expression of contrastive focus in both production and perception. According to the Effort Code, putting more effort into speech production will lead to greater articulatory precision (de Jong 1995,…
Is prosodic development correlated with grammatical and lexical development? Evidence from emerging intonation in Catalan and Spanish
This investigation focuses on the development of intonation patterns in four Catalan-speaking children and two Spanish-speaking children between 0 ; 11 and 2 ; 4. Pitch contours were prosodically analyzed within the Autosegmental Metrical framework in all meaningful utterances, for a total of 6558 utterances. The pragmatic meaning and communicative function were also assessed. Three main conclusions arise from the results. First, the study shows …
Measuring Child Rhythm
Interval-based rhythm metrics were applied to the speech of English, Catalan and Spanish 2, 4 and 6 year-olds, and compared with the (adult-directed) speech of their mothers. Results reveal that child speech does not fall into a well-defined rhythmic class: for all three languages, it is more ‘vocalic’ (higher %V) than adult speech and has a tendency towards lower variability (when normalized for speech rate) in vocalic interval duration. Consona…
The relevance of prosodic structure in tonal articulation Edge effects at the prosodic word level in Catalan and Spanish
Intonation as an Encoder of Speaker Certainty: Information and Confirmation Yes-No Questions in Catalan
Recent studies in the field of intonational phonology have shown that information-seeking questions can be distinguished from confirmation-seeking questions by prosodic means in a variety of languages (Armstrong, 2010, for Puerto Rican Spanish; Grice & Savino, 1997, for Bari Italian; Kügler, 2003, for Leipzig German; Mata & Santos, 2010, for European Portuguese; Vanrell, Mascaró, Prieto, & Torres-Tamarit, 2010, for Catalan). However, all these st…
Measuring Child Rhythm
Interval-based rhythm metrics were applied to the speech of English, Catalan and Spanish 2, 4 and 6 year-olds, and compared with the (adult-directed) speech of their mothers. Results reveal that child speech does not fall into a well-defined rhythmic class: for all three languages, it is more ‘vocalic’ (higher %V) than adult speech and has a tendency towards lower variability (when normalized for speech rate) in vocalic interval duration. Consona…
Experimental Evidence for the Role of Intonation in Evidential Marking
This paper investigates the role of intonation in the marking of directly-perceived information in Majorcan Catalan polar questions. We conducted a perception experiment in which a total of 72 participants were introduced to a set of twins who were exposed to different types of evidence for a given p (roposition). One twin inferred p based on direct sensory information (via one of the five senses), while the other had been told that p by a third …
The role of pitch range in establishing intonational contrasts
One of the unresolved issues in the field of intonational phonology is whether pitch accent range differences are used by languages to express discrete linguistic distinctions. In Catalan, as in some other Romance languages, a rising-falling nuclear pitch contour - i.e. a rising pitch accent associated with the utterance-final stressed syllable followed by a Low boundary tone - can be used to convey three different pragmatic meanings depending on…
Prosodic manifestations of the Effort Code in Catalan, Italian and Spanish contrastive focus
This paper investigates the relevance of three prosodic parameters (alignment, duration and scaling) in the conveyance of contrastive focus in Catalan, Italian and Spanish. In particular, we seek to determine how the Effort Code is instantiated in the expression of contrastive focus in both production and perception. According to the Effort Code, putting more effort into speech production will lead to greater articulatory precision (de Jong 1995,…
Hypocoristic truncation in Sardinian
This article focuses on hypocoristic truncation in Sardinian. Besides disyllabic truncation, hypocoristic truncation in Sardinian also yields trisyllabic truncated forms by means of a process of reduplicative prefixation (e.g.,Totore ← Servatore) and, more interestingly, a process of copy of what is analyzed as an internally layered ternary foot (e.g.,(Va(tore)) ← Servatore). In this paper we develop an OT analysis of hypocoristic truncation base…
Tonal Targets in Early Child English, Spanish, and Catalan
This study analyses the scaling and alignment of low and high intonational targets in the speech of 27 children – nine English-speaking, nine Catalan-speaking and nine Spanish-speaking – between the ages of two and six years. We compared the intonational patterns of words controlled for number of syllables and stress position in the child speech to the adult target speech provided by their mothers, and to a dataset of adult-directed speech record…
Opacity in Campidanian Sardinian metaphony
The relevance of prosodic structure in tonal articulation Edge effects at the prosodic word level in Catalan and Spanish
The relevance of prosodic structure in tonal articulation Edge effects at the prosodic word level in Catalan and Spanish
Is prosodic development correlated with grammatical and lexical development? Evidence from emerging intonation in Catalan and Spanish
This investigation focuses on the development of intonation patterns in four Catalan-speaking children and two Spanish-speaking children between 0 ; 11 and 2 ; 4. Pitch contours were prosodically analyzed within the Autosegmental Metrical framework in all meaningful utterances, for a total of 6558 utterances. The pragmatic meaning and communicative function were also assessed. Three main conclusions arise from the results. First, the study shows …
Measuring Child Rhythm
Interval-based rhythm metrics were applied to the speech of English, Catalan and Spanish 2, 4 and 6 year-olds, and compared with the (adult-directed) speech of their mothers. Results reveal that child speech does not fall into a well-defined rhythmic class: for all three languages, it is more ‘vocalic’ (higher %V) than adult speech and has a tendency towards lower variability (when normalized for speech rate) in vocalic interval duration. Consona…
Intonation as an Encoder of Speaker Certainty: Information and Confirmation Yes-No Questions in Catalan
Recent studies in the field of intonational phonology have shown that information-seeking questions can be distinguished from confirmation-seeking questions by prosodic means in a variety of languages (Armstrong, 2010, for Puerto Rican Spanish; Grice & Savino, 1997, for Bari Italian; Kügler, 2003, for Leipzig German; Mata & Santos, 2010, for European Portuguese; Vanrell, Mascaró, Prieto, & Torres-Tamarit, 2010, for Catalan). However, all these st…
Tonal Targets in Early Child English, Spanish, and Catalan
This study analyses the scaling and alignment of low and high intonational targets in the speech of 27 children – nine English-speaking, nine Catalan-speaking and nine Spanish-speaking – between the ages of two and six years. We compared the intonational patterns of words controlled for number of syllables and stress position in the child speech to the adult target speech provided by their mothers, and to a dataset of adult-directed speech record…
Prosodic manifestations of the Effort Code in Catalan, Italian and Spanish contrastive focus
This paper investigates the relevance of three prosodic parameters (alignment, duration and scaling) in the conveyance of contrastive focus in Catalan, Italian and Spanish. In particular, we seek to determine how the Effort Code is instantiated in the expression of contrastive focus in both production and perception. According to the Effort Code, putting more effort into speech production will lead to greater articulatory precision (de Jong 1995,…
The role of pitch range in establishing intonational contrasts
One of the unresolved issues in the field of intonational phonology is whether pitch accent range differences are used by languages to express discrete linguistic distinctions. In Catalan, as in some other Romance languages, a rising-falling nuclear pitch contour - i.e. a rising pitch accent associated with the utterance-final stressed syllable followed by a Low boundary tone - can be used to convey three different pragmatic meanings depending on…
Opacity in Campidanian Sardinian metaphony
Experimental Evidence for the Role of Intonation in Evidential Marking
This paper investigates the role of intonation in the marking of directly-perceived information in Majorcan Catalan polar questions. We conducted a perception experiment in which a total of 72 participants were introduced to a set of twins who were exposed to different types of evidence for a given p (roposition). One twin inferred p based on direct sensory information (via one of the five senses), while the other had been told that p by a third …
Hypocoristic truncation in Sardinian
This article focuses on hypocoristic truncation in Sardinian. Besides disyllabic truncation, hypocoristic truncation in Sardinian also yields trisyllabic truncated forms by means of a process of reduplicative prefixation (e.g.,Totore ← Servatore) and, more interestingly, a process of copy of what is analyzed as an internally layered ternary foot (e.g.,(Va(tore)) ← Servatore). In this paper we develop an OT analysis of hypocoristic truncation base…
Children’s Comprehension of Evidentiality Through Intonation in Majorcan Catalan
This paper investigates the developmental trajectory for children’s comprehension of evidential marking of directly perceived evidence through intonation in Majorcan Catalan (MC). Additionally, we aimed to explore children’s general source monitoring abilities and their capacity to make inferences based on directly perceived information. Given that evidential comprehension tends to develop relatively late when marked morphosyntactically, we hypot…
Linguistics (10 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Catalan (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Intonation (linguistics (4 works) · Language Development and Disorders (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)