Publications

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

- Astruc, L., Mora, E. Rew, S. (2010) .  ‘Venezuelan Andean Spanish intonation’. In P. Prieto and P. Roseano (eds) Transcription of the intonation of the Spanish Language, 191-226. Muenchen: Lincom Europa.

- Ortiz-Lira, H., Fuentes, M., Astruc, L. (2010) ‘Chilean Spanish intonation’. In P. Prieto and P. Roseano (eds) Transcription of the intonation of the Spanish Language, 255-285.  Muenchen: Lincom Europa.

- Payne, E., Post, B., Astruc, L., Prieto, P.,  Vanrell, M.M.  (2010). ‘Rhythmic modification in Child Directed Speech’. In M. Russo (Ed.) Atti del convegno di Prosodia. Gli universali prosodici: confronto e ricerche sulla modellizzazione ritmica e sulle tipologie ritmiche, 147-183. Roma: Aracne Biblioteca di Linguistica.

- Astruc, L. and Nolan, F. (2007) ‘Variation in the intonation of sentential adverbs in English and Catalan’. In C. Gussenhoven and T. Riad (eds) Tones and Tunes, Volume I: Typological and Comparative Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 233-263.

- Astruc, L.  and Nolan, F. (2007)  ‘A cross-linguistic study of extra-sentential elements’ . In P. Prieto, J. Mascaró, and M.J. Solé (eds.) Segmental and prosodic issues in Romance phonology. John Benjamins, 85-107.

- Ramírez, Mª D., Astruc, L., B. Morán (2007) ‘Entonación interrogativa en español y en inglés’ . In J. Dorta et al (eds) La prosodia en el ámbito románico. Colección Universidad. Madrid: La Página Ediciones S.L, 210-232

ARTICLES ON MOTIVATION TO LEARN FOREIGN LANGUAGES
- J.A. Coleman, Galaczi, Á., Astruc. L. (2007)  ‘Motivation of UK school pupils towards foreign languages: a large-scale survey at Key Stage 3’. Language Learning Journal 35: 2, 258-280.

ARTICLES ON DYSLEXIA
- Goswami, U., Gerson, D.,  Astruc L. (2010) ‘Amplitude envelope perception, phonology and prosodic sensitivity in children with developmental dyslexia’. Reading and Writing, 23(8), pp. 995–1019.

ARTICLES ON PROSODY 

- Astruc, L., Payne, E., Post, B., Prieto, P., Vanrell, M.M.  (submitted) ‘Tonal targets in early child Catalan, Spanish, and English’. Language and Speech.

- Prieto, P., Vanrell M.M., Astruc, L., Payne, E., Post, B. (in press).  ‘Phonotactic and phrasal properties of speech rhythm. Evidence from Catalan, English, and Spanish’.  Speech Communication.

- Payne, E., Eftychiou, E., Post, B.,  Astruc, L., Prieto, P., Vanrell, M.M. (2011). ‘The status of variable phonetic output in early speech’  ICPhS 2011.

- Vanrell, M.M., Prieto, P.,  Astruc, L., Payne, P., Post, B. (2011). ‘Adquisició dels patrons d’alineació i de camp tonal en català i espanyol’. Quaderns de Filologia.

- Payne, E., Post, B.,  Astruc, L., Prieto, P., Vanrell, M.M. (2011). 

- Astruc, L., Payne, E., Post, B., Prieto, P.,  Vanrell, M.M. (2010). ‘Word prosody in early child Catalan, Spanish and English’. Speech Prosody 2010 100173: 1-4, ISBN: 978-0-557-51931-6

- Payne, E., Post, B.,  Astruc, L., Prieto, P., Vanrell, M.M. (2010). ‘A cross-linguistic study of prosodic lengthening in child-directed speech’. Speech Prosody 2010 100319: 1-4, ISBN: 978-0-557-51931-6.

- Prieto, P.,  Vanrell, M.M., Astruc, L., Payne, E., Post, B. (2010). ‘Speech rhythm as durational marking of prosodic heads and edges. Evidence from Catalan, English, and Spanish’. Speech Prosody 2010 100951: 1-4, ISBN: 978-0-557-51931-6.

- Vanrell, M.M, Prieto, P., Astruc, L., Payne, P., Post, B.  (2010). ‘Early Acquisition of F0 Alignment and Scaling Patterns in Catalan and Spanish’. Speech Prosody 2010 100839: 1-4, ISBN: 978-0-557-51931-6.

- Astruc, L., Prieto, P., Payne, P.,  Post, B., Vanrell, M.M. (2009). ‘Acquisition of tonal targets in Catalan, Spanish, and English’. In A. Appleton, E. Lash and M. L. Jøhndal (eds) Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics, Volume 5, 1-14. Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

- Payne, E., Post, B., Astruc, L., Prieto, P., Vanrell, M.M. (2009). ‘Rhythmic modification in Child Directed Speech’. In O. Parker Jones and E. Payne (eds.) Oxford University Working Papers in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, Volume 12, Papers in Phonetics and Computational Linguistics, 123-144 (http://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/publications).

- Astruc, L. (2008) ‘Cortesía y entonación: las interrogativas absolutas en catalán’. Revista de Letras, Departamento de Letras, Centro de Estudos em Letras. Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro. Vol. 7, 41-53.

- Vizcaíno Ortega, F., Cabrera Abreu, M., Estebas Vilaplana, E. and Astruc, L.  (2008) ‘The phonological representation of edge tones in Spanish alternative questions’ . Language Design, 31-38. Vizcaino_et_al_2008.

- Toledo, G.A, and Astruc, L. (2008) ‘Los acentos tonales ascendentes en el español de Chile’ . Language Design, 65-72.

- Astruc, L., and Prieto, P. (2006) ‘Acoustic cues of stress and accent in Catalan’. In R. Hoffmann and H. Mixdorff (eds) Proceedings of Speech Prosody, 2006, 337-340, TUDpress Verlag der Wissenschaften GmbH Dresden. View and download in pdf format.

- Astruc, L. and Prieto, P. (2006) ‘Stress and accent: acoustic correlates of metrical prominence in Catalan’, Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Experimental Phonetics, 2006. View and download in pdf format.

- Astruc, L. (2005) ‘The form and function of extra-sentential elements’, Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 2. View and download in pdf format here: Astruc_Copil_05

- Astruc, L. (2004) ‘Right-dislocations: influence of information structure on prosodic phrasing and intonation’, Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 1. View and download in pdf format.

- Astruc, L. (2003) ‘Sentence external-elements in Catalan’. In Pilar Prieto (ed) Catalan Journal of Linguistics, Romance Intonation, Vol. 2. View and download in pdf format.

- Astruc, L. (2003) ‘Intonation of right-dislocations in Catalan’, Proceedings of the International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Barcelona. View and download in pdf format.