Estebas Vilaplana, Eva2026-03-112026-03-112007-12-01Estebas-Vilaplana, E. (2007). “The phonological status of English and Spanish prenuclear F0 peaks”. Atlantis 29 (2): 39-57https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/32086The registered version of this article, first published in “Atlantis 29 , 2007", is available online at the publisher's website: Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. AEDEANLa versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en “Atlantis 29 , 2007", está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. AEDEANThe aim of this paper is to examine the importance of phonetic detail in the phonological interpretation of intonation by analysing the case of rising prenuclear accents in English and Spanish declarative sentences. In order to find out the phonological units that better account for the rising Fo trajectories in the two languages, I recorded one English and one Spanish native speaker producing· 45 declarative sentences which contained words with different stress distributions (oxytones, paroxytones and proparoxytones) in prenuclear position. An acoustic analysis was carried out for both languages so as to examine the alignment patterns of the prenuclear rising accents. The results showed that the similar phonetic properties of English and Spanish prenuclear accents respond to two different phonological interpretations, namely an H* pitch accent for English and an H word-edge tone for Spanish.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess5505.10 Filologíaartículoprenuclear accentsFo alignmentpitch accentsword-edge tonesAutosegmental-Metrical phonology0210-6124