This work has been carried out in the light of one main general area of study in phonetics and phonology: nucleus placement. It is aimed at revealing how nucleus placement may differ from one speaker to another. Adopting the analysis of broad and narrow focus, nucleus placement will also be dealt with considering other notions that are taught in…

IntroducciónLas lenguas naturales cuentan con recursos sintácticos, prosódicos y morfológicos para indicar al oyente qué parte delcontenido es informativa. Generalmente se considera que las lenguas de origen latino (español, francés, catalán, etc.) recurren a la sintaxis para expresar la estructura informativa, mientras que las lenguas de origen…

Argentinian Spanish intonation has been the focus of intensive research, at least since the second half of the 20th century. Overall, this research has centred around one variety, i.e. Buenos Aires or ‘porteño’ Spanish, and on one type of sentence, namely declaratives, with a particular emphasis on broad focus declaratives. We also draw on this…