Spanish was classified as a language that only exploits syntactic mechanisms to mark focus. Recent experimental studies, nonetheless, have shown that speakers of different dialects are also able to use prosody to different degrees. This study aims to provide further understanding on the role played by prosody in the realization of focus in Spanish by looking at Asturian Spanish, a dialect in contact with another Romance language, Asturian. The data from a contextualized sentence completion task revealed that a phonological distinction between specific pitch categories (L+

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阿斯图里亚斯西班牙语中焦点的实现

西班牙语被分类为仅利用句法机制标记焦点的语言。尽管如此，最近的实验研究表明，不同方言的说话者也能够在不同程度上使用韵律。这项研究旨在通过考察阿斯图里亚斯西班牙语（一种与另一种浪漫语言阿斯图里亚斯人接触的方言），进一步了解韵律在西班牙语中实现焦点的作用。来自上下文化句子完成任务的数据表明，特定音高类别之间的语音区别（L +