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Gorka Elordieta

Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
gorka.elordieta@ehu.eus

I received my PhD degree in Linguistics in 1997 from the University of Southern California (USC). After that, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). I am currently a tenured professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies at the University of the Basque Country, Spain, where I teach introductory courses in Linguistics at the undergraduate level and courses in phonetics and phonology at the graduate level. My area of specialization is phonology, more concretely prosody, intonation and the syntax-phonology interface. I am a theoretical linguist by training, but I couch my work in the framework or spirit of laboratory phonology. That is, I am interested in understanding about structural aspects of language based on experimental empirical evidence, gathering phonetic data from speakers of different languages and analyzing it qualitatively and quantitatively. Also, my most recent work on bilingual populations has led me to investigate the role of social aspects of language (language attitudes, degree of language contact, ethnolinguistic identity) in explaining the degree of variation in the performance of speakers. Since 2019 I am the Principal Investigator of the Basque Research Group in Theoretical Linguistics of the University of the Basque Country (HiTT in its acronym in Basque), classified as an A group by the Basque Government since 2007.

Academic Degrees

 

Ph.D. in Linguistics (University of Southern California). 1997

M.A. in Linguistics (University of Southern California). 1993

M.A. in Spanish (University of Southern California). 1991

B.A. in English Linguistics and Literature (University of Deusto, Spain). 1988

Publications

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For downloadable papers, go to Google Scholar Citations [https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=qMSZUasAAAAJ&hl=es] and Academia.edu [https://ehu.academia.edu/GorkaElordieta]

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In preparation:

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“The prosodic realization of information focus in Majorcan Catalan” (Gorka Elordieta, Francesc Torres-Tamarit and María del Mar Vanrell).

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de la Cruz-Pavía; Elordieta, G.; Laka, I. (in preparation). “Prosody-frequency interaction in bilingual speech segmentation”.

 

Elordieta, G.; Hualde, J. I. (in preparation). “La variación fonológica del español en contacto con el vasco”. Invited contribution in M. Díaz-Campos & J. Hernández-Campoy (eds.), Enciclopedia Concisa de los Dialectos del Español (ENCODES). New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers.

 

Elordieta, G.; Egurtzegi, A. (in preparation). “A revision of the tonal configuration of the lexical accent and phonological phrases in Northern Bizkaian Basque”.  

 

Elordieta, G.; Romera, M. (in preparation). “Rising-falling final contours in Spanish in the Basque Country and Navarre”.

 

Elordieta, G.; Egurtzegi, A. (to appear). “Bizkaiko iparraldeko euskararen doinu-azentuaren berrikusketa” [“A revision of Northern Bizkaian pitch accent”]. To appear in I. Barberia & A. Iribar (eds.), Papers on Basque Linguistics in honor of Jon Andoni Franco Elorza. University of Deusto Press.

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In press:

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​​“Entonación y discurso” (Gorka Elordieta & Magdalena Romera). In Juana Gil & Joaquim Llisterri (eds.), Fonética y fonología descriptivas de la lengua española. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.

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2022:

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Egurtzegi, A.; Elordieta, G. (2022). “A history of the Basque accentual systems”. To appear in Diachronica 39.

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Elordieta, G.; Selkirk, E. (2022). “Unaccentedness and the formation of prosodic structure in Lekeitio Basque”. In H. Kubozono, J. Ito & A. Mester (eds.), Prosody and prosodic interfaces, 374-419. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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de la Cruz-Pavía, I.; Elordieta, G.; Villegas, J.; Gervain, J.; Laka, I. (2022). “Segmental information drives adult bilingual phrase segmentation preference”. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 25, 676-695.

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2021:

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Elordieta, G.; Lee, S.; Selkirk, E.; Johnson, K.; Kato, K.; Tuaño, C.M. (2021). “Basque: 2015 Data (ICULD-0028)”. ICU Working Papers in Linguistics 11, 167-169.

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Elordieta, G.; Lee, S.; Selkirk, E.; Johnson, K.; Kato, K.; Tuaño, C.M. (2021). “Basque: 2016 Data (ICULD-0029)”. ICU Working Papers in Linguistics 11, 171-173.

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“The influence of social factors on the prosody of Spanish in contact with Basque” (Gorka Elordieta & Magdalena Romera). International Journal of Bilingualism 25, 286-317.

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2020: 

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"Los tonemas de la fala en habla conversacional y leída: similitudes y diferencias con el español, gallego y portugués¨" (Gorka Elordieta & Lucía Masa). Huarte de San Juan. Filología y Didáctica de la Lengua 20, 51-76.

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“Prosodic systems: Iberia” (Sónia Frota, Pilar Prieto & Gorka Elordieta). In Carlos Gussenhoven & Aoju Chen (eds.), The Oxford handbook of language prosody, 251-270. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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“Information-seeking question intonation in Basque Spanish and its correlation with degree of contact and language attitudes” (Magdalena Romera & Gorka Elordieta). Languages 5(4), 70 (Special Issue Exploring Cross-linguistic Effects and Phonetic Interactions in the Context of Bilingualism).

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“Intonational analysis of the variety of Spanish spoken in Cáceres” (Gorka Elordieta, Lucía Masa & Magdalena Romera). Estudios de Fonética Experimental XXIX, 215-239.

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“The intonation of information-seeking absolute interrogatives in Madrid Spanish” (Gorka Elordieta & Magdalena Romera). Estudios de Fonética Experimental XXIX, 195-213.

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“Comparación de la entonación de la fala con el castellano, gallego y portugués” (Lucía Masa & Gorka Elordieta). In Iñaki Camino, Xabier Artiagoitia, Irantzu Epelde & Koldo Ulibarri (eds.), Eibartik Zuberoara euskalkietan barrena (Festschrift volume for Professor Koldo Zuazo), 535-544. Bilbao: University of the Basque Country. 

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​“Segmental information drives adult bilingual phrase segmentation preference” (Irene de la Cruz-Pavía, Gorka Elordieta, Julián Villegas, Judit Gervain & Itziar Laka). International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism [online first: https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2020.1713045].

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2019:  

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“La entonación en habla leída de pacientes con disartria” (Ander Aparicio & Gorka Elordieta). In Irantzu Epelde & Oroitz Jauregi (eds.), Bihotz ahots: M.L. Oñederra irakaslearen omenez, 41-66. Bilbao: University of the Basque Country Press.

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“Inguru soziolinguistikoaren eragina haurren hizkuntza jabekuntzan: euskarazko txistukarien ekoizpena haur elebidunengan” ["The influence of the sociolinguistic environment in child language acquisition: the production of Basque sibilants in bilingual children"] (Garazi Goienetxe & Gorka Elordieta). In Aintzane Etxebarria, Aitor Iglesias, Hiart Legarra & Asier Romero (eds.), Traineru bete lagun: Iñaki Gaminde omenduz (Festschrift for Prof. Iñaki Gaminde), 93-110. Bilbao: University of the Basque Country Press.

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2018:  

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“Notes on prosodic headedness and tone in Tokyo Japanese, Standard English, and Northern Bizkaian Basque”. (Gorka Elordieta & Elisabeth Selkirk). In Ryan Bennett, Andrew Angeles, Adrian Brasoveanu, Dhyana Buckley, Nick Kalivoda, Shigeto Kawahara, Grant McGuire & Jaye Padgett (eds.), Hana-bana: A Festschrift for Junko Ito and Armin Mester. Available in http://itomestercelebration.sites.ucsc.edu/.

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“Menpeko perpausetako hitz azentugabeen foku azentuaz” [“On focal accent of unaccented words in subordinate clauses”]. (Arantzazu Elordieta, Gorka Elordieta & José I. Hualde). Fontes Linguae Vasconum 126, 415-433.

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“Arabako herri izenen azentueraz”. [“On the accentuation of place names in Alava”]. (Garazi de Olano & Gorka Elordieta). ASJU - International Journal of Basque Linguistics and Philology 52, 577-604.

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2017:  

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“Prosodic accommodation and salience: The nuclear contours of Andalusian Spanish speakers in Asturias” (Aurora Troncoso-Ruiz & Gorka Elordieta). Loquens 4.

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“Aproximación a la entonación de a fala” (Lucía Masa & Gorka Elordieta). Estudos de Lingüística Galega 9, 87-110.

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2016:  

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“Evidencia segmental del sintagma fonológico en español” (Nuria Polo & Gorka Elordieta). Lingüística Española Actual XXXVIII, 5-29.

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“Pitch accent tonal alignment in declarative sentences in the Spanish of The Basque Country: A language contact study” (Gorka Elordieta & Aritz Irurtzun). In Meghan Armstrong, Nicholas Henriksen & María del Mar Vanrell (eds.), Intonational grammar in Ibero-Romance: Approaches across linguistic subfields, 25-44. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

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2015:  

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“Recursive phonological phrasing in Basque”. Phonology 32, 1-30.

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“Prosodic phrasing of relative clauses with two possible antecedents in Spanish: a comparison of Spanish native speakers and L1Basque bilingual speakers” (Irene de la Cruz-Pavía & Gorka Elordieta). Folia Linguistica 49, 185-204.

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“On the role of frequency-based cues in the segmentation strategies of adult OV/VO bilinguals” (Irene de la Cruz-Pavía, Gorka Elordieta, Núria Sebastián-Gallés & Itziar Laka). International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 18, 225-241.

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2014:  

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“The word in phonology”. In Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano & José-Luis Mendívil-Giró (eds.), To be or not to be a word: New reflections on the definition of word, 6-65. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

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“Intonation in Basque”. (Gorka Elordieta & José I. Hualde). In Sun-Ah Jun (ed.), Prosodic Typology II: The phonology of intonation and phrasing, 405-463. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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2013:  

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“Euskal azentueren historiaz”. [“On the history of the Basque accentual systems”] (Ander Egurtzegi & Gorka Elordieta). In Ricardo Gómez, Joaquín Gorrochategui, Joseba Lakarra & Céline Mounole (eds.), 3rd Conference of the Luis Michelena Chair, 163-186. Bilbao: University of the Basque Country Press.

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“Prosodic accommodation in language contact: Spanish intonation in Majorca”. (Magdalena Romera & Gorka Elordieta). International Journal of the Sociology of Language 221, 127-151.

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2012:  

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“Estudio comparativo de alineamiento tonal en el castellano de Bilbao” (Gorka Elordieta & Aritz Irurtzun). [“A comparative study of tonal alignment in Bilbao Spanish”]. In Bruno Camus-Bergareche & Sara Gómez-Seibane (eds.), El castellano del País Vasco, 119-137. Supplements of ASJU - International Journal of Basque Linguistics and Philology LXX. Bilbao: University of the Basque Country.  

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“Movimiento y prosodia”. [“Movement and prosody”] (Gorka Elordieta & Aritz Irurtzun). In José M. Brucart & Ángel Gallego (eds.), El movimiento de constituyentes, 213-234. Madrid: Visor.

 

Prosody and Meaning (Gorka Elordieta & Pilar Prieto, eds.). Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

 

2011:  

 

“Euskal azentu eta intonazioari buruzko ikerketa: status quaestionis”. [“Research on Basque accent and intonation: status quaestionnis”]. In Joseba A. Lakarra, Joaquin Gorrochategui & Blanca Urgell (eds.), 2nd Conference of the Luis Michelena Chair, 389-428. Bilbao: University of the Basque Country Press.

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“Basque word accents in the sentence”. In Gotzon Aurrekoetxea & Iñaki Gaminde (eds.), I Symposium on Prosody and Education, 47-62. Bilbao: University of the Basque Country Press.

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Review of Trancription of intonation of the Spanish language, P. Prieto & P. Roseano (eds.). Munich: Lincom Europa. Estudios de Fonética Experimental XX, 179-193.

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“Euskal azentuaren bilakaera: hipotesiak eta proposamenak”. [“The development of the Basque accentual system: hypotheses and proposals”]. In Andoni Sagarna, Joseba Lakarra and Patxi Salaberri (eds.), Pirinioetako Hizkuntzak: Lehena eta Oraina, Iker 26, 989-1014. Bilbao: Euskaltzaindia.

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Prosodic Categories: Production, Perception and Comprehension (Sónia Frota, Gorka Elordieta & Pilar Prieto, eds.). Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory series. Dordrecht: Springer.

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2010:  

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“The relationship between meaning and intonation in non-exhaustive answers: evidence from Basque” (Gorka Elordieta & Aritz Irurtzun). The Linguistic Review 27, 261-291.

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2009:  

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“The prosody and interpretation of non-exhaustive narrow focus in Basque” (Gorka Elordieta & Aritz Irurtzun). ASJU - International Journal of Basque Linguistics and Philology 43  – Festschrift for Bernard Oyharçabal, 205-230.

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2008:  

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“An overview of theories of the syntax-phonology interface”. ASJU - International Journal of Basque Linguistics and Philology 42, 209-286.

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2007:  

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“A constraint-based analysis of the intonational realization of focus in Northern Bizkaian Basque”. In Tomas Riad & Carlos Gussenhoven (eds.), Tones and Tunes: Volume I, Typological Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody (Phonology and Phonetics. Series editor: Aditi Lahiri), 199-232. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

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“Minimum size constraints on Intermediate Phrases”. In Jürgen Trouvain & William J. Barry (eds.), Proceedings of the XVI International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1021-1024. Universität Saarland.

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Co-editor of issues 5:2 and 6:1 of Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, “Prosody in Ibero-Romance and related languages” (co-edited with Marina Vigário).

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“The phonetics and phonology of intonational phrasing in Romance”. (Sónia Frota Mariapaola D’Imperio, Gorka Elordieta, Pilar Prieto & Marina Vigário). In Pilar Prieto, Joan Mascaró & María-Josep Solé (eds.), Segmental and Prosodic Issues in Romance Phonology, 131-153. Amsterdam and Boston: John Benjamins.    

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“Segmental phonology and syntactic structure”. In Gillian Ramchand & Charles Reiss (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces, 125-178. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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“Constraints on intonational prominence of focalized constituents”. In Chungmin Lee, Matthew Gordon & Daniel Büring (eds.), Topic and Focus: Meaning and Intonation from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective, 1-22. Dordrecht: Springer.

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2006:  

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“Spanish pitch accent alignment by Northern Bizkaian Basque speakers”. In Beatriz Fernandez & Itziar Laka (eds.), Andolin Gogoan. Essays in Honour of Profesor Eguzkitza, 269-290. Bilbao: Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco.

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“Evidence for soft preplanning in tonal production: Initial scaling in Romance”. (Pilar Prieto, Mariapaola D’Imperio, Gorka Elordieta, Sónia Frota & Marina Vigário). In Rüdiger Hoffmann & Hansjörg Mixdorff (eds.), Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2006, 803-806. TUDpress Verlag der Wissenschaften GmbH: Dresden. ISBN 3-938863-57-9.

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2005:  

 

“Microvariation in accentual tonal alignment in Basque Spanish” (Gorka Elordieta & Nagore Calleja). Language and Speech 48, 397-439.

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“Intonational phrasing in Romance: The role of syntactic and prosodic structure” (Mariapaola D’Imperio, Gorka Elordieta, Sónia Frota, Pilar Prieto & Marina Vigário). In Sónia Frota, Marina Vigário & Maria João Freitas (eds.), Prosodies, 59-97. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

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“Subjects, objects and intonational phrasing in Spanish and Portuguese” (Gorka Elordieta, Sónia Frota & Marina Vigário). Studia Linguistica 59, 110-143.

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2004:  

 

“Estudio experimental de las unidades prosódicas del discurso y sus funciones” [Experimental study of prosodic credits in discourse and their functions] (Gorka Elordieta & Magdalena Romera). Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación 18. [http://www.ucm.es/info/circulo/no18/elorrome.htm]

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“Euskal azentuaren ezaugarri akustikoez” [“On the acoustic properties of Basque accent”] (Gorka Elordieta & José Ignacio Hualde). In Pablo Albizu & Beatriz Fernández (eds.), Euskal Gramatika XXI. mendearen atarian: arazo zaharrak, azterbide berriak [Basque grammar at the beginning of the XXI century: old problems, new approaches], 62-87. Vitoria-Gasteiz: Diputación Foral de Álava & Universidad del País Vasco.

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“Reflexiones acerca de la adquisición fonológica de la primera lengua” [“Reflections on first language phonological acquisition”]. In Teresa Cabré, ed., Lingüística teòrica: anàlisi i perspectives I, 145-151. Monograph # 2 of Catalan Journal of Linguistics. Barcelona: Servei de Publicacions.

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2003:  

 

“The Spanish intonation of speakers of a Basque pitch-accent dialect”. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 2, 67-95.

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“Intonation”. In José Ignacio Hualde & Jon Ortiz de Urbina (eds.), A Grammar of Basque, 72-113. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

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“Experimental test of a hypothesized diachronic change in Basque accentuation” (Gorka Elordieta & José Ignacio Hualde). In María-Josep Solé, Daniel Recasens & Joaquín Romero (eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 67-70. Causal Productions Pty Ltd.: Barcelona. [Reedited in José Ignacio Hualde & Joseba Lakarra (eds.), Studies in Basque and Historical Linguistics in memory of R. L. Trask, 293-301. International Journal of Basque Linguistics and Philology 40, 2006].

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"Effects of constituent weight and syntactic branching on intonational phrasing in Ibero-Romance” (Gorka Elordieta, Sónia Frota, Pilar Prieto & Marina Vigário). In María-Josep Solé, Daniel Recasens & Joaquín Romero (eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 487-490. Causal Productions Pty Ltd.: Barcelona.

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“Peak alignment and intonational change in Basque” (Kiwako Ito, Gorka Elordieta & José Ignacio Hualde). In María-Josep Solé, Daniel Recasens & Joaquín Romero (eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2929-2932. Causal Productions Pty Ltd.: Barcelona.

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“Tonal and durational correlates of accent in contexts of downstep in Lekeitio Basque” (Gorka Elordieta & José Ignacio Hualde). Journal of the International Phonetic Association 33, 195-209.

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2002:  

 

“Prosody and meaning in interaction: the case of the Spanish discourse functional unit entonces ‘then’” (Gorka Elordieta & Magdalena Romera). In Bernard Bel & Isabelle Marlien (eds.), Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2002, 263-266. Aix-en-Provence: Laboratoire Parole et Langage. 

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“From pitch-accent to stress-accent in Basque” (José Ignacio Hualde, Gorka Elordieta, Iñaki Gaminde & Rajka Smiljanić). In Carlos Gussenhoven & Natasha Warner (eds.), Laboratory Phonology 7, 547-584. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

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“Características prosódicas de la unidad funcional del discurso entonces: implicaciones teóricas” [“Prosodic features of the discourse functional unit entonces: theoretical implications”] (Magdalena Romera & Gorka Elordieta). Oralia 5, 247-263.

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“La duración como correlato acústico del acento en dialectos de acento tonal del euskera” [“Duration as an acoustic correlate of accent in pitch-accent dialects of Basque”] (Gorka Elordieta & José Ignacio Hualde). Actas del II Congreso de Fonética Experimental, 156-160. Universidad de Sevilla, Spain.

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2001:  

 

“The role of duration as a correlate of accent in Lekeitio Basque” (Gorka Elordieta & José Ignacio Hualde). Proceedings of Eurospeech 2001 - Scandinavia, 115-118.

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“R. M. de Azkueren euskal azentuari buruzko deskribapenak” [“R. M. de Azkue’s descriptions of stress in Basque”]. Euskera 46, 243-255.

           

Conference report on Topic and Focus: A Workshop on Intonation and Meaning (July 20-21, 2001, University of California, Santa Barbara). Glot International vol. 5, issue 7.  [http://www.linguistlistplus.com/glot/conferences.asp#5-09/3].

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2000:  

 

“French liaison as phonological realization of morphosyntactic categories”. Proceedings of the Twenty-third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 95-110.

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“Mendebaldeko intonazioaren inguruan” [“On Western Basque intonation”]. In Mendebaldeko berbetearen formalizazinoa  [A formalization of Western Basque speech], 111-156. Bilbao: Mendebalde Kultur Alkartea.

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1999:  

 

“Phonological cohesion as a reflex of morphosyntactic feature chains”. Proceedings of the Seventeenth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 175-189. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

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 “Another step in the modeling of Basque intonation: Bermeo” (Gorka Elordieta, Iñaki Gaminde, Inmaculada Hernáez, Jasone Salaberria & Igor Martín de Vidales). In Václav Matoušek, Pavel Mautner, Jana Ocelíková & Petr Sojka (eds.), Text, Speech and Dialogue, 361-364. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

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“Primer estudio comparativo de la entonación de tres variedades dialectales vascas” [“First comparative study of the intonation of three varieties of Basque”]. Proceedings of the I Congreso de Fonética Experimental, 209-215. Universitat Rovira i Virgili and Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.

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1998:  

 

“The phonological import of syntactic features”. GLOW Newsletter 40, 32-33.

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“Euskal azentua gaur eta bihar” [”Basque accentuation today and tomorrow”] (Gorka Elordieta, Iñaki Gaminde & José Ignacio Hualde). Euskera 43, 399-423.

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“Intonation in a pitch accent variety of Basque”. ASJU - International Journal of Basque Linguistics and Philology 32, 511-569.

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1997:  

 

“Accent, tone, and intonation in Lekeitio Basque”. In Fernando Martínez-Gil & Alfonso Morales-Front (eds.), Issues in the Phonology and Morphology of the Major Iberian Languages, 3-78. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.

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“Intonational structure of Lekeitio Basque” (Sun-Ah Jun & Gorka Elordieta). In Antonis Botinis, Georgios Kouroupetroglou & George Carayiannis (eds.), Intonation: Theory, Models and Applications, 193-196. Athens, Greece.

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“Feature licensing, morphological words and phonological domains in Basque”. In Amaya Mendikoetxea & Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria (eds.), Theoretical Issues at the Morphology-Syntax Interface, 171-205. Supplements of ASJU - International Journal of Basque Linguistics and Philology, XL. Bilbao: University of the Basque Country.

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1996:  

 

“An Optimality theoretic analysis of Spanish diminutives” (Gorka Elordieta & María Carreira). Chicago Linguistic Society 32: Papers from the Main Session, 49-60. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.

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1995:  

 

“On the status of sequences of liquids in Romance” (Gorka Elordieta & Jon Franco). In Jon Amastae, Grant Goodall, Mario Montalbetti & Marianne Phinney (eds.), Contemporary Research in Romance Linguistics, 1-12. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

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1994:  

 

The Basque Dialect of Lekeitio (José Ignacio Hualde, Gorka Elordieta & Arantzazu Elordieta). Bilbao and Donostia/San Sebastián: University of the Basque Country Press/Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa.

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 “Vowel assimilation in Lekeitio Basque and its implications for the minimalist theory”. Proceedings of the Twenty-third Western Conference on Linguistics, University of Washington, 81-94.

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“Sobre la disimilación de líquidas no contiguas en romance” [”On non-contiguous liquid dissimilation in Romance”] (Jon Franco & Gorka Elordieta). Revista de Lingüística Teórica y Aplicada 32, 83-100.

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“On prosodic government”. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 23, Proceedings of the Sixth Student Conference in Linguistics, University of Rochester, 115-133.

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1993:  

 

“Focalización y prosodia en vascuence vizcaíno” [”Focalization and prosody in Bizkaian Basque”] (José Ignacio Hualde, Gorka Elordieta & Arantzazu Elordieta). ASJU – International Journal of Basque Linguistics and Philology 27, 731-749.

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“Arau lexikoen eta lexiko-ostekoen ezberdintasunaz: bokalen asimilazioa Lekeitioko euskaran” [”On the lexical/postlexical distinction: Vowel assimilation in Lekeitio Basque”] (José Ignacio Hualde & Gorka Elordieta). ASJU - International Journal of Basque Linguistics and Philology 27, 361-369.

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1992:  

 

“On the lexical/postlexical distinction: Vowel assimilation in Lekeitio Basque” (José Ignacio Hualde & Gorka Elordieta). Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 22, 159-164.

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​Invited Talks

 

“Euskararen azentuak eta intonazioak”. Workshop Euskararen Atlasak: Eginikoak eta Egitekoak [Basque Atlases: What has been done and what remains to be done] (Mugazgaindiko Uda Ikastaroak), Bayonne, July 22, 2022.

 

“My academic experience during covid-19”. Graduate Portuguese and Hispanic Symposium (GRAPHSY), Georgetown University (Academia: cuarentena y crisis /quarentena e crise), February 18, 2021.

 

“Phonological markedness constraints on prosodic recursivity in Basque” (Gorka Elordieta & Elisabeth Selkirk). Workshop Recursivity in Phrasal Phonology, Göthe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, July 2-3, 2020. Postponed.

 

“Lexical lack of accent and dephrasing in Northern Bizkaian Basque” (Gorka Elordieta & Elisabeth Selkirk). 6th NINJAL International Conference on Phonetics and Phonology, Tokyo, December 13-15, 2019.

 

“Accents, heads and phrases (and lack thereof) in Basque”. Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego, June 3, 2019.

 

“On the phrasal dependency of unaccented words in Basque”. P-interest Workshop, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University, May 31, 2019.

 

“Phonological well-formedness constraints on the mapping from syntactic to prosodic structure in Northern Bizkaian Basque”. Phonological Research Weekend (PHREND), University of California, Berkeley, April 6, 2019.

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“Unaccented words, headedness, and phonological phrasing in Lekeitio Basque”. Linguistics Colloquium Series, Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz. December 7, 2018.

 

“El foco estrecho no exhaustivo en español” (Gorka Elordieta & Aritz Irurtzun). Workshop "Gramática y estructura informativa". XXI Congreso de la Asociación Alemana de Hispanistas (HispanistenTag 2017), Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, March 29-April 2, 2017.

 

“Prosodic contexts of application of spirantization and /s/-voicing in Spanish”. Going Romance 2016, Göthe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, December 10, 2016.

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“The phrasing of unaccented words in Lekeitio Basque” (Gorka Elordieta & Elisabeth Selkirk). Workshop "Effects of constituency on sentence phonology", University of Massachusetts Amherst, July 29-31, 2016.

 

“Basque accentuation: From word-level to phrase-level and back” (Ander Egurtzegi y Gorka Elordieta). 1st International Workshop on Basque-Japanese and Neighbouring Languages, Universidad del País Vasco-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, December 14-16, 2015.

 

“Prosodia y actitudes lingüísticas: euskera-castellano en contacto en Bilbao” (Gorka Elordieta y Magdalena Romera). Seminario de Investigación Contacto euskera-castellano en el ámbito fonético-fonológico, Departamento de Filología y Didáctica de la Lengua, Universidad Pública de Navarra, October 29, 2015.

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“Contacto de lenguas y actitudes lingüísticas. El español y el vasco en España” (Gorka Elordieta & Magdalena Romera). Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Club del Español, University of Nevada, Reno, November 14, 2014.

 

“The impact of social factors on language transfer: The prosody of Spanish in contact with Basque” (Gorka Elordieta & Magdalena Romera). Lecture Series Basque Studies Fall 2014, Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, October 23, 2014.

 

“Minimal and non-minimal phonological phrases in Basque”. Plenary speaker at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, University of California, Berkeley, February 7-9, 2014.

 

“Phonological phrases in Northern Bizkaian Basque”. Workshop “La phrase dans la langue basque et les langues voisines: une approache comparative”, CNRS-Iker (UMR 5478), Bayonne, France, June 3, 2013.

 

“Intonation in language contact”. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, November 27, 2012.

 

“Intonational phrasing in Northern Bizkaian Basque revisited”. Workshop “Syntax-Phonology Interface from a Cross-linguistic Perspective”, ZAS, Berlin, November 2-4, 2012.

 

“Euskal azentueren historiaz” (Gorka Elordieta & Ander Egurtzegi). Plenary speaker of the III Conference of the Koldo Mitxelena Chair, University of the Basque Country, October 8-11, 2012.

 

“Phonological representation and the phonetic realization of Focus”. Plenary speaker of the North American Phonology Conference 7, Concordia University, Montreal, May 4-5, 2012.

 

“Aproximación a la prosodia de las unidades narrativo-argumentativas”. [“On the prosody of narrative-argumentative movements”]. Plenary speaker of the section on Prosody, pragmatics and discourse analysis, V Congreso Internacional de Fonética Experimental, Universidad de Extremadura, October 25-28, 2011.

 

 “Prosodic accommodation in language contact: Spanish intonation in Majorca”. Plenary speaker of the III Cat-ToBI Workshop, University of Barcelona, July 7, 2011.

 

“Variedades en contacto y acomodación entonativa: el caso del castellano en Baleares”.   [“Varieties in contact and intonational accommodation: the case of Spanish in the Balearic Islands”]. Plenary speaker of Jornadas de Lingüística 2011, University of the Balearic Islands, April 12-14, 2011.

 

 “Basque word accents in the sentence”. Plenary speaker of the I Workshop on Prosody and Education, University of the Basque Country, January 27-28, 2011.

 

“The role for prosodic markedness constraints in phonological phrase formation in two pitch accent languages” (Gorka Elordieta & Elisabeth Selkirk). Plenary speaker at the Workshop of the project Silent Constituents in the Grammar of Portuguese, University of Lisbon, November 5, 2010.

 

“La palabra desde una perspectiva fonológica”. [“The word from a phonological perspective”]. Jornadas SYLEX 2010, Sobre la naturaleza de la palabra [On the nature of the word]. Universidad de Zaragoza, October 7-8, 2010.

 

“Accent, Binarity and Prosodic Phrasing in Tokyo Japanese and Lekeitio Basque” (Elisabeth Selkirk & Gorka Elordieta). Workshop Word Accent: Theoretical and Typological Issues, University of Connecticut, April 30, 2010.

 

“The prosody of non-exhaustive narrow focus”. Workshop on Experimental Studies on Intonation: Phonetic, Phonological and Psycholinguistic Aspects of Sentence Prosody. University of Potsdam, January 5-7, 2009.

 

“Constraints on the intonational realization of focus in Northern Bizkaian Basque”. Workshop on Prosody and Information Structure, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, January 21-22, 2008.

 

“Euskal azentu eta intonazioari buruzko ikerketa: egindakoa eta egin beharrekoa” [“Research on Basque stress and intonation: what has been done and what needs to be done”]. II Conference of the Koldo Mitxelena Chair, University of the Basque Country, October 8-11, 2007.

 

“Segmental phonology and syntactic structure”. Plenary speaker, ConSOLE XV, University of the Basque Country, December 15-17, 2005.

 

“Accentual alignment in two Basque Spanish varieties” (Gorka Elordieta & Nagore Calleja). III Workshop on Tone and Intonation in Europe, University of Lisbon, March 31-April 3, 2004.

 

Commentary on a talk by Conxita Lleó, “La recerca de l’adquisició fonològica de la primera llengua: dels segments a la prosòdia”. [“Research on first language phonological acquisition: from segments to prosody”]. III Meeting of the Xarxa Temàtica de Gramàtica Teòrica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, November 21, 2003.

 

“Experimental test of a hypothesized diachronic change in Basque accentuation” (Gorka Elordieta & José Ignacio Hualde). Invited talk in the symposium ‘Evolutionary typology of accentual systems’, XV International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, August 3-9, 2003.

 

“Sintaxis y agrupación prosódica en catalán y español” [“Syntax and intonation phrasing in Catalan and Spanish”] (Pilar Prieto & Gorka Elordieta). II Meeting of the Xarxa Temàtica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, September 13, 2002.

 

“Euskal azentua eta hizkuntz tipologia prosodikoa” [“Basque accent and its classification in a prosodic typology of languages”]. XXI Summer Courses/XIV European Courses of the University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastián, July 15-16, 2002.

 

“Acoustic correlates of accent in Northern Bizkaian Basque: pitch and duration”. Seminari de Sintaxi i Semàntica & Seminari de Fonologia (Grup de Gramàtica Teòrica), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, June 8, 2002.

 

“Duration as an acoustic correlate of accent in Lekeitio Basque” (Gorka Elordieta and José Ignacio Hualde). Workshop on Tone and Intonation in Europe, University of the Basque Country, June 28-30, 2001.

 

“R. M. de Azkueren euskal azentuari buruzko deskribapenak” [“R. M. de Azkue’s descriptions of stress in Basque”]. Colloquium on R. M. Azkue’s work in the 50th Anniversary of his death. Lekeitio, February 22, 2001.

 

Round table on the syllable in Basque. Linguistic Courses, Udako Euskal Unibertsitatea [Basque Summer University]. Pamplona, Spain, July 21, 2000.

 

“Euskal intonazioa aztertzeko lehen urratsak” [“Preliminary steps towards analyzing Basque intonation”]. Seminar on Basque speech: research directions. University of Bayonne, France, December 13-14, 2000.

 

“Categorización prosódica de dialectos vascos e implicaciones teórico-tipológicas” [“Prosodic categorization of Basque dialects and theoretical and typological implications”]. Phonology Colloquium, University of Deusto, Spain, December 22, 2000.

 

“Mendebaldeko intonazioaren inguruan”. [“On Western Basque intonation”]. Linguistic Symposium of “Mendebalde” Euskal Kultur Elkartea [“Mendebalde” Basque Cultural Association]. Bilbao, Spain, May 12-13, 2000.

 

“The interaction of tone and intonation in Basque”. Workshop on Tone and Intonation, Schloss Freudental, Germany, December 15-18, 1999.

 

“Basque intonation: A comparison of three dialects”. Workshop on Basque Linguistics, 1999 Linguistic Society of America Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, July 17, 1999.

 

“Foco y prosodia en el euskera de Lekeitio”. [“Focus and prosody in Lekeitio Basque”]. (Arantzazu Elordieta & Gorka Elordieta). Linguistics Colloquium, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, May 28, 1999.

 

“Cadenas de rasgos sintácticos y la interfaz sintaxis-fonología”. [”Syntactic feature chains and the syntax-phonology interface”]. Seminari de Sintaxi i Semàntica & Seminari de Fonologia (Grup de Gramàtica Teòrica), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, February 25, 1999.

 

“Euskal azentua gaur eta bihar”. [“Basque accentuation today and tomorrow”] (Gorka Elordieta, Iñaki Gaminde & José Ignacio Hualde). IV Meeting of the Academy of the Basque Language on the Standardization of Pronunciation in Basque, Doneztebe, Spain, September 25-26, 1998.

 

“On the existence of postlexical phonological domains not prosodically determined”. Department of Linguistics, University of California, Irvine. May 29, 1997.

 

“Sobre las categorías léxicas y funcionales y la creación de dominios morfofonológicos”. [”On lexical and functional categories and the creation of morphophonological domains”]. Linguistics Colloquium. University of Deusto, Spain. January 10, 1997.

 

“On weak morphological and phonological words”. Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. April 4, 1996.

 

“Acento, tono y entonación en el euskera de Lekeitio” [”Accent, tone and intonation in Lekeitio Basque”]. Linguistics Colloquium. University of Deusto, Spain. August 10, 1995.

 

“Fonología e inflexión” [”Phonology and inflection”]. Linguistics Colloquium. University of Deusto, Spain. January 4, 1995.

 

“Acento de frase en el euskera de Lekeitio” [”Phrase accent in Lekeitio Basque”]. Linguistics Colloquium. University of Deusto, Spain. January 3, 1994.

 

“Lexical subjects in Spanish infinitival adjuncts”. USC/UCLA Romance Syntax Workshop. University of California, Los Angeles. March 1993.

 

“Cierre de vocales en el euskera de Lekeitio: un análisis en la teoría fonológica de la rección” [”Vowel raising in Lekeitio Basque: a Government Phonology approach”]. Linguistics Colloquium. University of  Deusto, Spain. August 1991.

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Conference presentations

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“Lexical and non-lexical tones in Basque revisited” (Gorka Elordieta & Ander Egurtzegi). 31st Colloquium on Generative Grammar, University of the Balearic Islands, June 1-3, 2022.

 

“Sociophonetic variation in the Cabuerniga Valley” (Alejandra Mella, Magdalena Romera & Gorka Elordieta). 14th Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS14), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, February 25-26, 2022.  

 

“Lexical and non-lexical tones in Basque revisited” (Gorka Elordieta & Ander Egurtzegi). 19th Old World Conference in Phonology, University of Deusto, San Sebastian, January 26-28, 2022.

 

“Lexical and non-lexical tones in Basque revisited” (Gorka Elordieta & Ander Egurtzegi). UD Workshop 2021 on Basque Linguistics, University of Deusto, Bilbao, December 17, 2021.

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“La entonación de las interrogativas absolutas de búsqueda de información en español de Madrid” (Gorka Elordieta & Magdalena Romera). VIII Congreso Internacional de Fonética Experimental, Universitat de Girona, June 28-30, 2021.

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“Fronted information focus in Catalan at the phonology/phonetics interface” (Gorka Elordieta, Francesc Torres-Tamarit & Maria del Mar Vanrell). Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2021, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, June 21-23, 2021.

 

“Basque prosodic features in Spanish: language contact and social factors” (Gorka Elordieta & Magdalena Romera). Workshop ‘Prosodic Variation: the role of past and present contact in multilingual societies’. Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2021, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, June 21-23, 2021.

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“Phrasing unaccented words in a recursive prosodic structure in Basque” (Gorka Elordieta & Elisabeth Selkirk). Workshop “Recursivity in phonology above and below the word”. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, November 21-22, 2019.

 

“Las interrogativas absolutas circunflejas del español del País Vasco y su correlación con actitudes lingüísticas”. Congreso Internacional I ALFALito “Dinámicas lingüísticas de las situaciones de contacto”. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, October 28-30, 2019.

 

"Prosody, attitudes and identity in Spanish in contact with Basque" (Magdalena Romera & Gorka Elordieta). 27th Conference on Spanish in the US & 12th Conference on Spanish in Contact with Other Languages. Cleveland State University, Cleveland (EE.UU.), 4-6 de abril de 2019.

 

"Absolute interrogatives in Basque Spanish: The role of degree of contact and social attitudes" (Gorka Elordieta & Magdalena Romera). VII Congreso Internacional de Fonética Experimental, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, November 22-24, 2017.

 

"Así se fala nus tres lugaris: Entonación de a fala y comparación con el español, portugués y gallego". (Lucía Masa & Gorka Elordieta). VII Congreso Internacional de Fonética Experimental, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, November 22-24, 2017.

 

"Breve aproximación entonativa al español hablado en Cáceres" (Lucía Masa & Gorka Elordieta). VII Congreso Internacional de Fonética Experimental, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, November 22-24, 2017.

 

"La prosodia como rasgo identitario en comunidades bilingües castellano-euskera" (Magdalena Romera & Gorka Elordieta). VI Jornadas de Lingüística Hispánica, Universidade de Lisboa, April 3-5, 2017.

 

"Cross-dialectal prosodic accommodation: Evidence from Andalusian Spanish in Asturias” (Aurora Troncoso-Ruiz & Gorka Elordieta). Tone and Intonation in Europe 2016, University of Kent, September 1-3, 2016.

 

"The Basque substratum in the intonation of Spanish in the Basque Country and the influence of linguistic attitudes" (Gorka Elordieta, Magdalena Romera & Lucía Masa). Tone and Intonation in Europe 2016, University of Kent, September 1-3, 2016.

 

"The phrasing of lexically unaccented words in Lekeitio Basque" (Gorka Elordieta & Lisa Selkirk). Tone and Intonation in Europe 2016, University of Kent, September 1-3, 2016.

 

"Acomodación prosódica: español andaluz en Asturias” (Aurora Troncoso-Ruiz & Gorka Elordieta). XII Congreso Internacional de Lingüística General. Universidad de Alcalá, May 23-25, 2016.

 

“Actitudes lingüísticas y transferencia prosódica del euskera al español en Bilbao” (Gorka Elordieta, Magdalena Romera & Lucía Masa). XII Congreso Internacional de Lingüística General, Universidad de Alcalá, May 23-25, 2016.

 

“Intonation in Fala and its comparison with Spanish, Portuguese and Galician” (Lucía Masa & Gorka Elordieta). International Workshop on Linguistics of Ibero-Romance Languages (Ibero-Romance in Contact and in Contrast), University of Ghent, December 14-16, 2015.

 

“Spanish intonation in the Basque Country: the influence of social factors” (Gorka Elordieta, Magdalena Romera & Lucía Masa)”. International Workshop on Linguistics of Ibero-Romance Languages (Ibero-Romance in Contact and in Contrast), University of Ghent, December 14-16, 2015.

 

“The phrasing of sequences of unaccented words in Northern Bizkaian Basque” (Gorka Elordieta & Lorea Unamuno). Poster presented in Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2015, University of Cambridge, June 29-30, 2015.

 

“Segmental cues to the Phonological Phrase in Spanish” (Nuria Polo & Gorka Elordieta). Poster presented in Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2015, University of Cambridge, June 29-30, 2015.

 

“Intonation in Fala and its comparison with Spanish, Portuguese and Galician” (Lucía Masa & Gorka Elordieta). Poster presented in Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2015, University of Cambridge, June 29-30, 2015.

 

“The Basque substratum in the intonation of Spanish in the Basque Country and the relevance of social factors” (Magdalena Romera, Gorka Elordieta y Lucía Masa). Poster presented in Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2015, University of Cambridge, June 29-30, 2015.

 

“Variación en la formación de constituyentes prosódicos con palabras no acentuadas en vizcaíno septentrional” (Lorea Unamuno, Gorka Elordieta & Gotzon Aurrekoetxea). VI Congreso Internacional de Fonética Experimental, University of Valencia, November 5-7, 2014.

 

“Doinu-azentuen alineazio tonala Donostiako gaztelaniako baieztapen perpausetan” [“Pitch accent tonal alignment in declarative sentences in Donostia Spanish”] (Gorka Elordieta & Aritz Irurtzun). IV Jornadas de Lingüística Vasco-Románica, University of Deusto, Bilbao, November 29, 2013.

 

“Pitch accent tonal alignment in Spanish by L1 Basque and monolingual/L1 Spanish speakers” (Gorka Elordieta & Aritz Irurtzun). Poster presented at the 6th Workshop on Cognitive Neuroscience and Bilingualism, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, September 19-20, 2013.

 

“Pitch accent tonal alignment in Basque Spanish declaratives” (Gorka Elordieta & Aritz Irurtzun). Poster presented at Phonetics and Phonology in Language Contact, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, August 21-23, 2013.

 

“A cross-dialectal comparative study of pitch accent tonal alignment in the Spanish of The Basque Country” (Gorka Elordieta & Aritz Irurtzun). Poster presented at Poster presented at Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia 2013, University of Lisbon, June 25-27, 2013.

 

“On the role of frequency and prosody in the segmentation strategies of adult bilinguals”. (Irene de la Cruz-Pavía, Gorka Elordieta & Itziar Laka). 11th Symposium of Psycholinguistics, Tenerife, March 20-23, 2013.

 

“Historical development of modern Basque accentuation systems”. (Ander Egurtzegi & Gorka Elordieta). Workshop Tone: Theory and Practice, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, September 28-29, 2012.

 

“Bilingual segmentation: effect of context language in Basque-Spanish bilinguals”. (Irene De La Cruz-Pavía, Judit Gervain, Nuria Sebastián-Gallés, Gorka Elordieta & Itziar Laka). Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanism for Language Processing (AMLaP), Riva del Garda, September 6-8, 2012.

 

“Segmentation strategies in bilinguals”. (Irene De La Cruz-Pavía, Judit Gervain, Nuria Sebastián-Gallés, Gorka Elordieta & Itziar Laka). Poster presented at In Search of New Ways to Understand Language Variation, Change and Acquisition, San Sebastian, June 25-26, 2012.

 

“The role for prosodic markedness constraints in phonological phrase formation in two pitch accent languages”. (Elisabeth Selkirk & Gorka Elordieta). Tone and Intonation in Europe 4, Stockholm, September 9-11, 2010.

 

“Prosodic accommodation in language contact: Spanish intonation in the Basque Country and Majorca”. (Gorka Elordieta & Magdalena Romera). Workshop Modelling language contact: linguistic data and interdisciplinary approaches (Johannes Kabatek & Lucía Loureiro-Porto, organizers), 43rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Vilnius, September 2-5, 2010.

 

“Pitch Accent, Stress Prominence and Prosodic Phrasing in Tokyo Japanese and Lekeitio Basque”. (Gorka Elordieta & Elisabeth Selkirk). Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 5, University of California at Santa Cruz, May 7-9, 2010.

 

“Análisis de la prosodia de las unidades discursivas en la conversación en español”. (Gorka Elordieta & Magdalena Romera). 39th Symposium of the Spanish Linguistics Society, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, February 1-4, 2010.

 

“The prosody of ambiguous relative clauses in Spanish: a study of monolinguals and Basque-Spanish bilinguals”. (Irene de la Cruz Pavía & Gorka Elordieta). Poster presented at the Workshop on Prosody and Meaning, Barcelona, September 17-18, 2009.

 

“Non-Exhaustive answers to wh-questions as split foci”. (Gorka Elordieta & Aritz Irurtzun). Workshop on Prosody and Meaning, Barcelona, September 17-18, 2009.

 

“Prosodic properties of non-exhaustive answers and their relationship to verum focus constructions”. (Gorka Elordieta & Aritz Irurtzun). Poster presented at Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia 2009, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, June 17-18, 2009.

 

“The prosody of ambiguous relative clauses in Spanish: a study of monolinguals and Basque-Spanish bilinguals”. (Irene de la Cruz Pavía & Gorka Elordieta). Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia 2009, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, June 17-18, 2009.

 

“The prosody of ambiguous relative clauses in Spanish: a study of monolinguals and Basque-Spanish bilinguals”. (Irene de la Cruz Pavía & Gorka Elordieta). IX Simposio de Psicolingüística, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, April 23-25, 2009.

 

“Las parafasias fonológicas en un bilingüe: la representación fonológica y los límites de su activación”. (Amaia Munarriz, María José Ezeizabarrena & Gorka Elordieta). IX Simposio de Psicolingüística, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, April 23-25, 2009.

 

“Non-exhaustive narrow focus: a case of a mismatch between information structure and prosody”. (Gorka Elordieta & Aritz Irurtzun). Mapping Asymmetries: Phonology, Syntax and Information Structure, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 3-5, 2009.

 

“La prosodia del foco estrecho no-exhaustivo” (Gorka Elordieta & Aritz Irurtzun). Special session on Spanish intonation, 38th Symposium of the Spanish Linguistics Society, Madrid, February 2-4, 2009.

 

“Euskal azentuaren bilakaera tonala”. [“Tonal evolution of Basque accent”]. XVI International Conference of Euskaltzaindia/The Royal Academy of the Basque Language “Pirinioetako hizkuntzak: lehena eta oraina” (“The languages of the Pyrenees: past and present”). Pamplona, October 6-10, 2008.

 

“Minimum size constraints on Intermediate Phrases”. XVI International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Universität Saarland, Germany, August 6-10, 2007.

 

“Evidence for soft preplanning in tonal production: Initial scaling in Romance”. (Pilar Prieto, Mariapaola D’Imperio, Gorka Elordieta, Sónia Frota & Marina Vigário). Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden, Germany, May 2-5, 2006.

 

“Binarity at the left edge of Intonational Phrases”. GLOW Workshop on Prosodic Phrasing, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, April 5, 2006.

 

“The phonetics and phonology of intonational phrasing in Romance”. (Sónia Frota, Mariapaola D’Imperio, Gorka Elordieta, Pilar Prieto & Marina Vigário). Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia 2005 (PaPI 2005). Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, June 20-21, 2005.

 

“Acoustic correlates of accent in different word-prosodic systems of Basque”. (Gorka Elordieta & Aritz Irurtzun). Conference ‘Between Stress and Tone’, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, June 16-18, 2005.

 

 “Microvariation in the alignment of Spanish pitch accents: a comparison of three varieties”. (Nagore Calleja & Gorka Elordieta). International Conference on Tone and Intonation, Santorini, Greece, September 9-11, 2004. 

 

“Effects of constituent weight and syntactic branching on intonational phrasing in Ibero-Romance” (Gorka Elordieta, Sónia Frota, Pilar Prieto & Marina Vigário). 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, August 3-9, 2003.

 

“Peak alignment and intonational change in Basque” (Kiwako Ito, Gorka Elordieta & José Ignacio Hualde). 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, August 3-9, 2003.

 

“Intonational phrasing and constituent length in Romance” (Mariapaola D’Imperio, Gorka Elordieta, Sónia Frota, Pilar Prieto & Marina Vigário). Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia 2003 (PaPI 2003). University of Lisbon, Portugal, June 11-12, 2003.

 

“Subjects, objects and intonational phrasing in Spanish and Portuguese” (Gorka Elordieta, Sónia Frota & Marina Vigário). GLOW Workshop on Boundaries in Intonational Phonology. Lund University, Sweden, April 12, 2003.

 

“Tonal and durational correlates of accent in contexts of downstep in Northern Bizkaian Basque” (Gorka Elordieta & José Ignacio Hualde). Eighth Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 8), Yale University & Haskins Laboratories, USA, June 27-30, 2002.

 

“Prosody and meaning in interaction: the case of the Spanish discourse functional unit entonces ‘then’” (Gorka Elordieta & Magdalena Romera). Speech Prosody 2002. Aix-en-Provence, France, April 11-13, 2002.

 

“The role of duration as a correlate of accent in Lekeitio Basque” (Gorka Elordieta & José Ignacio Hualde). Eurospeech 2001, Aalborg, Denmark, September 3-7, 2001.

 

“Syntactic and prosodic constraints on focus in pitch-accent dialects of Basque”. Topic and Focus: A Workshop on Intonation and Meaning, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA, July 20-21, 2001.

 

“Binarity constraints on Intermediate Phrases”. Workshop on Prosody in Processing, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, July 5-6, 2001.

 

“La duración como correlato acústico del acento en dialectos pitch-accent del euskera“ (Gorka Elordieta & José Ignacio Hualde)”. Segundo Congreso de Fonética Experimental, University of Seville, Spain, March 5-7, 2001.

 

“From pitch-accent to stress-accent in Basque and the typology of accentual systems” (José Ignacio Hualde, Gorka Elordieta, Iñaki Gaminde & Rajka Smiljanić). Seventh Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 7), University of Nijmegen & Max Planck Institute for Psicolinguistics, The Netherlands, June 29-July 1, 2000.

 

“Another step in the modeling of Basque intonation: Bermeo” (Gorka Elordieta, Iñaki Gaminde, Inmaculada Hernáez, Jasone Salaberria & Igor Martín de Vidales). Poster presented at the Workshop on Text, Speech and Dialog, Pilsen, Czech Republic, September 13-17, 1999.

 

“Primer estudio comparativo de la entonación de tres variedades dialectales vascas”. I Congreso de Fonética Experimental (CFE99), University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, February 22-24, 1999.

 

“French liaison and morphosyntactically-derived phonological domains”. 1999 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles, USA, January 7-10, 1999.

 

“The phonological import of syntactic features”. Twenty-First GLOW Colloquium (GLOW 21), Tilburg University, The Netherlands, April 15-18, 1998.

 

“Phonological cohesion as a reflex of feature chains”. Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL XVII), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, February 20-22, 1998.

 

“Intonational structure of Lekeitio Basque” (Sun-Ah Jun & Gorka Elordieta). ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Intonation: Theory, Models and Applications. Athens, Greece, September 18-20, 1997.

 

“French liaison as phonological realization of morphosyntactic relationships”. Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS 23), University of California, Berkeley USA, February 14-17, 1997.

 

“An Optimality theoretic analysis of Spanish diminutives” (Gorka Elordieta & María Carreira). Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 32), University of Chicago, USA, April 11-13, 1996. 

 

“Mora conservation in Optimality Theory: evidence from Spanish diminutives” (Gorka Elordieta & María Carreira). Northwest Linguistics Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, March 30-31, 1996.

 

“On the direct mapping between syntax and PF”. Fifth Annual Meeting of the Formal Linguistic Society of Mid-America (FLSM V), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, May 20-22, 1994.

 

“On prosodic government”. Sixth Student Conference in Linguistics (SCIL VI), University of Rochester, Rochester, USA, May 8-9, 1994.

 

“Vowel assimilation in Lekeitio Basque and its implications for the minimalist theory”. Twenty-third Annual Meeting of the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL 23), University of Washington, Seattle, USA, October 22-24, 1993.

 

“On the status of sequences of liquids in Southwestern Romance” (Gorka Elordieta & Jon Franco). Twenty-second Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 22), University of Texas at El Paso, USA, February 1992.

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Principal Investigator

 

Research Group in Theoretical Linguistics (HiTT). Funded by the Basque Government (IT1396-19; 54,781 euros). January 1, 2019-December 31, 2021.

 

"El castellano en contacto con el euskera: prosodia y factores sociales". ["Spanish in contact with Basque: prosody and social factors"]. Funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FFI2016-80021-P; 42,350 euros). December 30, 2016-December 29, 2020.

 

“La prosodia del castellano en contacto con el euskera”. [“The prosody of Spanish in contact with Basque”]. Funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FFI2012-38064-C02-01; 24,570 euros). January 1, 2013-December 31, 2016.

 

“Effects of syntactic constituency on the phonology and phonetics of tone” [Principal Investigator: Elisabeth Selkirk, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Co-Principal Investigators: Gorka Elordieta and Seunghun Lee]. Funded by the National Science Foundation (BCS-1147083; 108,143 US dollars to the subgrant at the U. of the Basque Country, 499,056 US dollars to the whole grant). July 1, 2012-December 31, 2015.

 

“Análisis de la prosodia de las unidades discursivas en la conversación en español”. [“Analysis of the prosody of discourse credits in Spanish conversation”]. Funded by the Ministry of Educaton and Science (HUM2006-12695; 72,600 euros). October 1, 2006-March 31, 2010.

 

“Principales aspectos de la entonación del discurso en español. Estudio experimental de las unidades prosódicas del discurso y sus funciones”. [“Main aspects of discourse intonation in Spanish. Experimental study of prosodic credits in discourse and their functions”]. Funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Spain (BFF2001-1593; 19,956.78 euros). December 28, 2001-December 27, 2004.

 

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Member of Research Group

 

“Bilingüismo y neurociencia cognitiva”. [Bilingualism and cognitive neuroscience”]. Main researcher: Prof. Dr. Núria Sebastián-Gallés (University of Barcelona). Funded by the Consolider Program (Enhancement of Top Research Groups in Spain), Ministry of Education and Science, Spain (CSD2007-00012; 5,000,000 euros). November 28, 2007-November 27, 2013.

 

“Silent Constituents in the Grammar of Portuguese”. Main researcher: Prof. Dr. Gabriela Matos (Universidade de Lisboa). Funded by Fundaçao para a Ciencia e a tecnología, Portugal (45,000 euros). December 1, 2007-November 30, 2010.

 

Subvención General a Grupos de Investigación. Director: Dr. Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria Goti (Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies, University of the Basque Country). Funded by the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU 9 UPV 00114.130-160.09-2004 U; 40,000 euros). January 1, 2005 – December 31, 2007.

 

“La arquitectura del lenguaje: Estructura multidireccional de las interfaces lingüísticas”. [The architecture of language: Multidirectional structure of linguistic interfaces]. Director: Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria Goti (Department of Basque Philology, University of the Basque Country). Funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Spain (BFF2002-04238-C02-01; 99,360 euros). January 1, 2003 - December 31, 2005.

 

Subvención General a Grupos de Investigación [research project on the architecture of grammar and organization and structure of interfaces]. Director: Dr. Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria (Department of Basque Philology, University of the Basque Country). Funded by the University of the Basque Country (9/UPV 00033.130-13888/2001; 60,882.52 euros). November 20, 2001 – November 19, 2004.

 

“Egungo euskal ahoskeraren analisia: gaztelera eta frantserarekiko elkar-ukituen azterketa”. [Analysis of modern Basque pronunciation, with particular reference to the contact with Spanish and French”.] Director: Dr. Lourdes Oñederra (Department of Basque Philology, University of the Basque Country). Funded by the University of the Basque Country (UPV-HA-8025/20; 4,742 euros). November 1, 2000-October 31, 2002.

 

“Ordenadorearen bidez lagundutako euskara-gaztelera tutore baterako sintaxi eta morfologia egituren azterketa linguistikoa”. [”Linguistic analysis of the syntactic and morphological structure of a computer-aided Basque-Spanish tutor”]. Directors: Dr. Jon Ortiz de Urbina (Department of English Philology, University of Deusto), and Dr. Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria (Department of Basque Philology, University of the Basque Country). Funded by the Department of Education, Research and Universities of the Basque Government (PI-1998-127; 72,241.65 euros). January 1, 1999 - December 31, 2001.

 

“El desarrollo fonético, léxico, sintáctico y discursivo en la adquisición del inglés: la influencia de elementos lingüísticos, psicosociales y pedagógicos”. [”Phonetic, lexical, syntactic and discourse development in the acquisition of English: linguistic, psicosocial and pedagogic aspects”]. Director: Dr. Jasone Cenoz (Department of English Philology, University of the Basque Country). Funded by the Department of Education, Research and Universities of the Basque Government (PI-1998-96; 26,558.12 euros). January 1, 1999 - December 31, 2001.

 

“Diseño y adquisición telefónica de una base de datos para el reconocimiento automático del habla en euskera”. [“Design and telephonic acquisition of a speech data base for speech recognition of Basque”]. Director: Dr. María Inés Torres (Department of Electricity and Electronics, University of the Basque Country). Funded by Telefónica I+D, Spain (60,822.42 euros). July 1, 1998-December 31, 2001.

 

“Obtención de información para el desarrollo de una primera edición de un conversor texto a voz en vasco”. [“Obtaining information for the development of a first edition of a text-to-speech converter in Basque”]. Director: Dr. Inmaculada Hernáez (Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, University of the Basque Country). Funded by Telefónica I+D, Spain. October 1, 1997-February 1, 1999.

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