The role of f0 and intensity in distinguishing yes/no questions from neutral statements in the nuclear region of the dialect of people from Curitiba
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https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-4876.2017v20n3p265Keywords:
Prosody, F0 and e Intensity, Dialect from Curitiba.Abstract
This study aims at investigating whether acoustical parameters such as F0 and intensity have a role in distinguishing neutral statements from neutral yes/no questions of the dialect of people from Curitiba, Paraná. For the corpus, two informants (a woman and a man) who were born in Curitiba were recorded following the methodology of the project Multimedia Prosodic Atlas for Romance Languages - Portuguese (AMPER-POR) to which the present research is link to. Based on the analysis of the data, it was possible to conclude that both acoustical parameters play a role in distinguishing the sentences. The values for F0 comparing yes/no questions and neutral sentences are significantly different mainly in the pre-tonic syllables and some of the pos-tonic. Intensity has also shown different patterns with significantly different values for pre-tonic syllables of the oxytones, pre-tonic and tonic slyllables of the paroxytones and for pre-tonic, tonic and pos-tonic slyllables of the proparoxytones. It can be concluded that F0 and intensity are two important prosodic features in order to distinguish a statement from a yes/no question.
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