TY - GEN
T1 - Tonal structure and constituency in Neapolitan Italian
T2 - 4th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2008, SP 2008
AU - Petrone, Caterina
AU - D'Imperio, Mariapaola
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - In this paper, we report on some acoustic data suggesting the existence of the Accentual Phrase (AP) in Neapolitan Italian. In late narrow focus utterances in which intonation modality was varied, there was a difference in the shape and slope of the interaccentual region linking the H target of the prenuclear rise with the L target of the following nuclear rise. We hypothesized that such difference is due to the presence of a tone marking the end of an Accentual Phrase (AP), whose domain roughly correspond to the phonological phrase (φ). It is tentatively proposed that the phrasal tone is L for statements and HL for questions.
AB - In this paper, we report on some acoustic data suggesting the existence of the Accentual Phrase (AP) in Neapolitan Italian. In late narrow focus utterances in which intonation modality was varied, there was a difference in the shape and slope of the interaccentual region linking the H target of the prenuclear rise with the L target of the following nuclear rise. We hypothesized that such difference is due to the presence of a tone marking the end of an Accentual Phrase (AP), whose domain roughly correspond to the phonological phrase (φ). It is tentatively proposed that the phrasal tone is L for statements and HL for questions.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84902670152
SN - 9780616220030
T3 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2008
SP - 301
EP - 304
BT - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Speech Prosody, SP 2008
PB - International Speech Communications Association
Y2 - 6 May 2008 through 9 May 2008
ER -