Aproximació als contorns tonals del català central
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>The present study provides a preliminary description of a wide variety of pitch contours in Central Catalan, </span></span></span><sp...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Catalan |
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Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana (IIFV); Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat (PAM)
2015-10-01
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| Series: | Caplletra: Revista Internacional de Filologia |
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| Online Access: | https://ojs.uv.es/index.php/caplletra/article/view/7370 |
| Summary: | <p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>The present study provides a preliminary description of a wide variety of pitch contours in Central Catalan, </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>and shows that the phonological framework developed by Pierrehumbert (1980) and her colleagues successfully </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>accounts for their relevant intonational distinctions. Compared to English, Central Catalan seems to make use of a wider inventory of pitch accents, namely, H*, L*, !L+</span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>H</span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>*, L*+</span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>H</span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>, H+L*, H+!, H*+L, and L+H*+H (a summary of the pitch accent plus boundary tone combina</span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>t</span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>ions is given at the end). As the model predi</span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>c</span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>ts, the relative </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>alignment of the H and L levels with respect to the accented syllable triggers intonational oppositions in Catalan. </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>For example, the distinction between an echo and a neutral pronunciation of a question like </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span><em>Què volia ahir en </em></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span><em>Jo</em></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span><em>an? </em></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span>can be expressed with the use of H+L* vs. H*+L pitch accents respectively.</span></span></span></p> |
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| ISSN: | 0214-8188 2386-7159 |