Intonational differences between speech tasks in school context
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2012/05/0021/000227Keywords:
intonational variation, oral presentations, adolescentsAbstract
This paper investigates intonational differences between speech tasks using a corpus of spontaneous and prepared non-scripted speech collected in Portuguese high schools during the final year of compulsory education. It offers evidence that speakers’ choices of intonation contours vary depending on the degree of planning and the specific nature of scholarly oral presentations. Specifically, non-falling contours are overall less common in spontaneous presentations than in prepared ones, while prepared speech displays a more balanced distribution of the main nuclear contours. Additionally, the speaker’s status, age, and gender are also sources of the observed variation.
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