16:00 hrs. Sala María Moliner 1F Por María del Mar Vanrell (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Catalan and Spanish, two closely-related languages, are considered to mark focus by syntactic means, although recent studies show that prosodic strategies are acceptable as well (Face & D’Imperio 2005, Estebas-Vilaplana 2000). Regarding these prosodic strategies, in Catalan and Spanish it is assumed that intonational prominence falls on clause-final position and that prominence shift is not an available mechanism (Vallduví 1991, Zubizarreta 1998). However, it remains unclear which prosodic...