Maria del Mar Vanrell Bosch

Research interests

- Catalan intonation
- Acquisition of intonation
- Dialectology
- Phonetics and phonology

Current projects

- Intonational contrasts in Catalan (Thesis project)
- Atles interactiu de l'entonació del català [http://prosodia.upf.edu/atlesentonacio/]
- Corpus Oral de l'Alguerès [http://prosodia.upf.edu/coalgueres/]
- Acquisition of intonation

Selected Publications

Prieto, P.; Cabré, T.; Vanrell, M.M. (to appear) «L'Atles interactiu de l'entonació del català i el traçat de les isoglosses entonatives del català». Caplletra.

Vanrell, M.M. (to appear). «Pitch accent types and the perception of focus in Majorcan Catalan wh-questions». Proceedings ProsIco. Rouen, France, 9-10 April, 2009.

Vanrell, M.M.; Mascaró, I.; Prieto, P.; Torres-Tamarit, F. (2010) Preguntar per saber i preguntar per confirmar: l'entonació de les interrogatives absolutes informatives i confirmatòries en català central i balear. Randa 64, 77-95.

Vanrell, M.M.; Mascaró, I.; Prieto, P.; Torres-Tamarit, F. (2010) «When intonation plays the main character: information- vs. confirmation-seeking questions in Majorcan Catalan». Proceedings Speech Prosody 2010. Chicago, USA, 11.14 May 2010.

Vanrell, M.M. (2006) A tonal scaling contrast in Majorcan Catalan interrogatives. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics 5/6, 147-178.

Selected Presentations

Thorson, J.; Borràs, J.; Crespo, V.; Vanrell, M. M.; Prieto, P. (2009). The acquisition of melodic form and meaning by Catalan and Spanish speaking children. Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia 2009. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 17-19 de juny de 2009.

Vanrell, M. M. «Atles interactiu de l'entonació del català: current state, future perspectives and related research». Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italia, 16-20 February 2009.

Vanrell, M.M. «L'acquisizione dell'intonazione e del suo significato pragmatico nella lingua materna: uno studio sul catalano e sullo spagnolo». Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere. Lecce, Italy, 29 March, 2010.

Vanrell, M. M. Pitch accent types and the perception of focus in Majorcan Catalan Wh-questions. Conference on Prosody and Iconicity. Rouen, France, 9-10 April, 2009.

Vanrell, M.M.; Mascaró, I.; Torres-Tamarit, F.; Prieto, P. «When intonation plays the main character: information- vs. confirmation-seeking questions in Majorcan Catalan». Speech Prosody. Chicago, USA, 11-14 May, 2010.