On the intonation of tag questions in Italian: samples from central varieties
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2024/15/0013/000638Keywords:
intonation, Italian, tag questions, prosody, spontaneous speechAbstract
The paper presents the phonetic description of the prosodic form of tag-questions in Rome and Perugia Italian. The analysis is based on a sample of confirmation-seeking questions in check dialogic moves in semi-spontaneous speech selected from the CLIPS Corpus of Italian. The phonetic-acoustic analysis shows that rising or high boundaries (L)H, preceded by a HL accent configuration, frequently occur. This shape is similar to the prosodic pattern of confirmation-seeking questions in the same varieties, identified in previous studies; therefore, data support the hypothesis of a homogeneous prosodic form for the class of confirmation-seeking questions.
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