Continuation tunes in two central varieties of Italian: phonetic patterns and phonological issues
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2008/02/0025/000084Keywords:
intonation, Italian, continuation, non-finality, spontaneous speechAbstract
This paper presents the phonetic analysis of the intonational patterns conveying the pragmatic contents of continuation and/or marking syntactic relations in Rome and Perugia Italian: data show the type and the distribution of accents and boundaries occurring in spontaneous task-oriented dialogues. Results imply considerations about issues concerning systemic, phonotactic and realizational aspects of the intonational system of Italian: the co-presence of accents and boundaries marking continuation contents; their distribution in the intonation group; the phonetic features correlated, in Italian, to phonological contrast and to phonetic variation.
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