Intonation of Wh-questions in Northern British English Spontaneous Speech

  1. Sola, Alicia 1
  2. Torregrosa-Azor, José 1
  1. 1 Universitat de Barcelona
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    Universitat de Barcelona

    Barcelona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/021018s57

Revista:
IJES: international journal of English studies

ISSN: 1578-7044,  1989-6131

Año de publicación: 2023

Volumen: 23

Número: 1

Páginas: 1-25

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.6018/IJES.559521 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDIGITUM editor

Otras publicaciones en: IJES: international journal of English studies

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Resumen

En este artículo reportamos el análisis del comportamiento melódico de las preguntas whdel norte de Inglaterra. El corpus contiene 107 enunciados emitidos por 19 informantes nativos diferentes en situaciones comunicativas reales, extraídos de grabaciones de entrevistas callejeras publicadas en YouTube y realizadas en las ciudades de York, Manchester, Sheffield y Liverpool. El análisis se realiza a través del método Melodic Analysis of Speech (MAS) (Cantero, 2002) que nos permite cuantificar, estandarizar y comparar configuraciones melódicas. Los resultados describen cuatro patrones de entonación diferentes para este tipo de preguntas. Un patrón de inflexión final ascendente (E1: 27%); un patrón de inflexión final descendente (E2: 58%); un patrón de inflexión final circunfleja ascendente-descendente (E3: 5%); y un patrón de caída de núcleo alto (E4: 10%). Después de describir y cuantificar cada uno de estos patrones.

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