Publications

PhD thesis Thesis here
Department of Linguistics, Cambridge University 2005
Supervisor: Prof Francis J. Nolan
Examiners: Prof Alan Cruttenden and Dr Pilar Prieto

Chapters in books
- Astruc, L. and Nolan, F. (in press) ‘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. View and download in pdf format (219KB)

- Ramírez, Mª D., Astruc, L. and B. Morán (in press) ‘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.

- Astruc, L. And Nolan, F. (2007) ‘A cross-linguistic study of extra-sentential elements’. in P. Prieto, J. Mascaró, and M.J. Solé (eds.) Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia. John Benjamin, 85-107. View and download in pdf format (215KB)

Articles on motivation to learn Modern Languages
- J.A. Coleman, Galaczi, Á. and L. Astruc. (in press) ‘Motivation of UK school pupils towards foreign languages: a large-scale survey at Key Stage 3′. Language Learning Journal.

Review articles
- Astruc-Aguilera, L. (in press) review of The Phonology of Catalan by Max Wheeler. Journal of the International Phonetics Association, 36:2, 215-219. View and download in pdf format (336KB)

- Astruc, L. (to appear July 2007) review of The Verbal Complex in Romance, by Paola Monachesi. Journal of Linguistics, 43:2.

Articles on prosody
- 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 (257KB)

- 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 (30,4KB)

- Astruc, L. (2005) ‘The form and function of extra-sentential elements’, Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 2. View and download in pdf format (279KB)

- Astruc, L. (2004) ‘Right-dislocations: influence of information structure on prosodic phrasing and intonation’, Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 1.
Three experiments studying the intonation of right-dislocated phrases are described here. The prosodic form of such constructions is interpreted as following from their role in the information structure of the discourse. View and download in pdf format (529KB)

- Astruc, L. (2003) ‘Sentence external-elements in Catalan’. In Pilar Prieto (ed) Catalan Journal of Linguistics, Romance Intonation, Vol. 2.
The article identifies and describes the intonational patterns used to mark some part of the phrase as extra-sentential. View and download in pdf format (339KB)

- Astruc, L. (2003) ‘Intonation of right-dislocations in Catalan’, Proceedings of the International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Barcelona.
This article presents an experiment involving 6 Catalan speakers aimed at testing the hypothesis that right-dislocations are completely deaccented in Catalan. View and download in pdf format (207KB)