Pilar Prieto’s scientific contributions

... The standard analysis of the syllabic affiliation of onset consonant clusters is not generally regarded as a controversial topic in Spanish phonology (Colina 2009(Colina , 2012Harris 1983;Hualde 1991Hualde , 2005Morales-Front 2018;Real Academia Española 2011;Saporta and Contreras 1962). Under this standard view, Spanish onset clusters (either word-initially or word-medially) may have at most two consonants and their structure is very constrained. ...

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Probing syllabic affiliation of word-initial and word-medial consonant sequences in north-central Peninsular Spanish

... Nuclear contours of Spanish statements and questions produced by Mandarin speakers with advanced Spanish proficiency varying syntactic structures and pragmatic functions. We mainly focus on two types of sentences: statements and yn-questions and only analyze the nuclear pitch contours of these sentences, as nuclear pitch accent and boundary tones are central to Spanish intonation (Prieto & Roseano, 2018). Additionally, we consider variations in the lexical stress of nuclear words to explore the stress-intonation interplay in L2 prosody. ...

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Nuclear contours of Spanish statements and questions produced by Mandarin speakers with advanced Spanish Proficiency