A dependency prosodic grammar for Italian
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2024/15/0019/000644Keywords:
dependency grammar, Italian, prosodic structure, intonation, Siwis corpusAbstract
Research on Italian intonation is mainly based on the autosegmental-metrical framework, aiming to provide a prosodic grammar that adequately accounts for all well formed sequences of phonological prosodic events. An alternative approach to account for sequences of tone patterns, or alternatively melodic contours, is presented here, using a set of dependency rules operating on accent phrases pitch events. The resulting prosodic dependency grammar was tested on a large set of more than 2700 recorded sentences read by up to 10 speakers, allowing to detect the prosodic invariants among the realizations observed between speakers when the dependency rules are applied.
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