The role of pitch range in establishing intonational contrasts

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• dc.contributor.author Borràs Comes, Joan Manel, 1984-
• dc.contributor.author Vanrell, Maria del Mar
• dc.contributor.author Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-
• dc.date.accessioned 2023-06-22T07:23:59Z
• dc.date.available 2023-06-22T07:23:59Z
• dc.date.issued 2014
• dc.description.abstract One of the unresolved issues in the field of intonational phonology is whether pitch accent range differences are used by languages to express discrete linguistic distinctions. In Catalan, as in some other Romance languages, a rising-falling nuclear pitch contour – i.e. a rising pitch accent associated with the utterance-final stressed syllable followed by a Low boundary tone – can be used to convey three different pragmatic meanings depending on its pitch range properties: information focus statements (IFSs), corrective focus statements (CFSs), and counter-expectational questions (CEQs). In order to investigate how these pragmatic meanings are distributed across the pitch range continuum and whether Catalan listeners use these tonal scaling distinctions to identify such meanings, we performed an identification task and a congruity test. The results show that CEQs differ from both IFSs and CFSs in a discrete way, yet the perceived difference between IFSs and CFSs cannot be exclusively explained by scaling differences. These findings provide further evidence that pitch range differences can be used to make intonational distinctions in some languages, and strengthen the argument that pitch range features need to be represented descriptively at the phonological level.
• dc.description.sponsorship This research has been funded by projects FFI2009-07648, FFI2011-23829, FFI2012-31995, and CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010 Program CSD2007-00012 (both awarded by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación) and by project 2009 SGR 701 (awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya).
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• dc.identifier.citation Borràs-Comes J, Vanrell MM, Prieto P. The role of pitch range in establishing intonational contrasts. J Int Phon Assoc. 2014;44(1):1-20. DOI: 10.1017/S0025100313000303
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025100313000303
• dc.identifier.issn 0025-1003
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57293
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Cambridge University Press
• dc.relation.ispartof Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 2014;44(1):1-20.
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/FFI2009-07648
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/FFI2011-23829
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/FFI2012-31995
• dc.rights © Cambridge University Press. The published version of the article: Borràs-Comes J, Vanrell MM, Prieto P. The role of pitch range in establishing intonational contrasts. J Int Phon Assoc. 2014;44(1):1-20 is available at http://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100313000303
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• dc.subject.other Català -- Fonologia
• dc.subject.other Català -- Entonació
• dc.title The role of pitch range in establishing intonational contrasts
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