Intonation of Tuvan and Teleut narrative statements
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2021/12/0056/000529Keywords:
Tuvan language, Teleut language, phonetic processes, intonationAbstract
We study the intonation of the Teleut and Tuvan folk statements. In the study, audio-visual methods of computer processing of the speech signal in Praat are used. The material under study is simple two-part sentences and simple statements as a part of complex sentences with the topic and focus. In the Teleut and Tuvan languages, a rise-fall contour of the fundamental frequency tone is realized in narrative statements. On predicates in simple statements, the fundamental frequency tone declines. In compound sentences, the incompleteness of the utterance fragment is marked by the raising fundamental frequency tone on the predicate. There are not only similarities, but different intonation features when comparing these two Turkic South-Siberian languages. The Tuvan intonation is influenced by pharyngalization, which is phonologically relevant in this language.
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