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Este libro recoge las voces de Cristina Alberdi, Jimena Alonso, María del Carmen Costa, Desideria Contreras, Juana López, Lourdes Ortiz, Ramona Parra, Rosa Pereda, Empar Pineda, Concha Selgás y Aurora (pseudónimo). Son 11 mujeres de la generación del 68 cuyas palabras constituyen un testimonio de las movilizaciones visibles así como de las luchas cotidianas, calladas, de tantas mujeres muchas veces ignoradas, son preciosos materiales para la reflexión y la acción. Estos relatos de vida ponen bien de manifiesto que la emancipación de las mujeres no es ajena a la lucha contra las dictaduras, y contra los fundamentalismos de todo tipo, incluido el neoliberal. Son aportaciones lúcidas para poder enfrentarnos con mayor conocimiento de causa a escenarios nuevos en los que habrá que renovarse e inventar nuevas formas de resistencia.

Located at the intersection of phonology, psycholinguistics and phonetics, this volume offers the latest research findings in key areas of prosodic theory, including: •The relationship between intonation and pragmatics in speech production •Sentence modality prosody characterization •The role of pitch in quantity-based sound systems •Consonant-conditioned tone depression phonology across languages •The encoding of intonational contrasts in both intonational and tonal languages Featuring new data and ground-breaking results, the papers draw on empirical approaches that analyze production, perception and comprehension experiments such as the prepared speech paradigm and semantic scaling tasks. These are discussed in a variety of languages, some underrepresented in the literature (such as French and Estonian) while others, such as Shekgalagari, are examined in this way for the first time. This collection of cutting-edge material will be of interest to a broad range of language researchers.

Based on the Workshop on Prosody and Meaning in Barcelona on September 17-18, 2009, this volume brings together researchers working on issues of the prosodic encoding and expression of sentence-level meaning.The contributions to the book resultfroma vivid exchange ofresearch ideas and research methodologies on issues related to the relationship between prosody and meaning andfrom stimulating discussions and collaborative work between researchers coming from different perspectives.

The goal of this dissertation is to argue that a wide variety of historical and synchronic processes of vowel lengthening in many languages can be motivated as a way of optimizing segmental and prosodic structures. The northern Italian dialects are chosen as the main pool of data for the study of vowel lengthening and its conditionings, since in a relatively small area we find a great variety of vowel length developments. Moreover, some of the vowel developments are compelling for recent prosodic theory. A set of phonological optimization tendencies are proposed to be active in these dialects, and it is shown that the interaction between the prosodic and segmental optimization constraints are resolved by language-particular parametrization. Historical vowel lengthening produced in the central part of the Romania has been interpreted by Romanists such as Lausberg, Leonard, and Weinreich as a result of the so-called 'bimoraic conspiracy' or 'open-syllable lengthening'. That is, while open syllables lengthened and sometimes diphthongized, vowels in closed syllables remained short. Yet, the present dissertation shows that there are many other types of vowel length conditionings in the Northern Italian area which can be explained by optimization tendencies at different levels: (1) Syllabic Optimization (e.g. 'Stressed syllables tend to be heavy', 'syllables optimize their "contact" with other syllables', 'unstressed syllables tend to be light'); (2) Foot Optimization (e.g. 'Feet tend to be analyzed as binary', 'vowels in word-final positions tend to be short', 'sonorous segments tend to license moraic or weight units'); and (3) Segmental Optimization (e.g. 'Sonorous segments tend to be long'). In sum, it is contended that vowel length, a prosodic phenomenon, is constrained by feet structure on the one hand and by segmental conditions based on sonority on the other. These results are in complete accordance with the basic tenets of the recent Optimality Theory, proposed by Prince (1991), Prince & Smolenski (1992), McCarthy & Prince (1993), and Mester (to appear), where phonological conditions and rules operate in order to increase the well-formedness of representations.

Modern plant breeding is considered a discipline originating from the science of genetics. It is a complex subject, involving the use of many interdisciplinary modern sciences and technologies that became art, science and business. Revolutionary developments in plant genetics and genomics and coupling plant "omics" achievements with advances on computer science and informatics, as well as laboratory robotics further resulted in unprecedented developments in modern plant breeding, enriching the traditional breeding practices with precise, fast, efficient and cost-effective breeding tools and approaches. The objective of this Plant Breeding book is to present some of the recent advances of 21st century plant breeding, exemplifying novel views, approaches, research efforts, achievements, challenges and perspectives in breeding of some crop species. The book chapters have presented the latest advances and comprehensive information on selected topics that will enhance the reader's knowledge of contemporary plant breeding.