An innovative and unified grammar of sentence intonation, applied to six Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Romanian).
Philippe Martin is a Professor in the Linguistics Department at Université Paris Diderot.
1. Introduction; 2. The role of technological advances; 3. Transcription systems; 4. The autosegmental-metrical prosodic structure; 5. The incremental prosodic structure; 6. Lexical stress in Romance languages; 7. The incremental prosodic structure in six Romance languages; 8. Macrosyntax; 9. Applications; 10. Conclusion.