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2009-12-31
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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AESLA: Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada. Universitat Politècnica de València
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Resumen
The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between focus and downstep in Central Catalan declaratives produced with two peaks. In particular, we examine the hypothesis that broad focus is associated to a downstepped second peak whereas narrow focus blocks the downstep movement. In utterances produced with narrow focus two variables were taken into account: 1) the position of the focused material within the sentence (medial or final) and 2) the type of focus (contrast vs. new information). The results indicate that in Central Catalan broad focus is always associated with downstep but the link between narrow focus and non-downstep is not so categorical, but shows a continuum of downstep degrees. This seems to indicate that downstep is not a phonological property of an accent but a realizational option. These results are relevant for the implementation of intonation to systems of speech synthesis and speech recognition.
Descripción
The registered version of this article, first published in “RAEL: Revista Electrónica De Lingüística Aplicada, 8(1), 45–62", is available online at the publisher's website: https://matrix.aesla.org.es/RAEL/article/view/149
La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en “RAEL: Revista Electrónica De Lingüística Aplicada, 8(1), 45–62", está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: https://matrix.aesla.org.es/RAEL/article/view/149
La versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en “RAEL: Revista Electrónica De Lingüística Aplicada, 8(1), 45–62", está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: https://matrix.aesla.org.es/RAEL/article/view/149
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Palabras clave
downstep, focus, contrast, new information, Autosegmental-Metrical framework
Citación
Estebas Vilaplana, E. (2009). Downstepping sequences in Central Catalan broad and narrow focus declaratives. Revista Electrónica De Lingüística Aplicada, 8(1), 45–62. Recuperado a partir de https://matrix.aesla.org.es/RAEL/article/view/149
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Facultad de Filología
Departamento
Filologías Extranjeras y sus Lingüísticas