摘要:This paper contains the acoustic description of two prenuclear rising pitch accents(L+>H* and L*+H) found in Central Catalan. The analysis of the 330 utterancesthat build up the corpus focuses on pitch range and on the alignment of the tonaltargets. According to the acoustic data collected for this research, L+>H* is arising movement of about 6 st between the valley and peak and is characterized bya significant F0 rise in the stressed syllable. The L target of L+>H* accents isusually aligned with the beginning of the stressed syllable, while the H target isgenerally in the middle of the second post-tonic syllable. L*+H is a risingmovement of about 10.2 st between the valley and peak and shows no significantF0 rise in the stressed syllable. The L target of L*+H accents is usually alignedwith the end of the stressed syllable and the H target is usually in the second halfof the second post-tonic syllable.