The Intonation of Interrogation in Palermo Italian : : Implications for intonation theory / / Martine Grice.
In Palermo Italian yes-no interrogatives, if the last syllable of a phrase is unstressed, the nuclear pitch contour is rising-falling, whereas if it is stressed, the contour is simply rising. Such context-dependent variation cannot be adequately accounted for within a British-style approach to inton...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Linguistische Arbeiten ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (219 p.) :; Zahlr. Abb. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- I. Introduction
- II. The British nucleus-plus-head approach
- III. A British-style analysis of Palermo Italian
- IV. Auditory studies of Italian intonation
- V. Association in intonation models
- VI. Alignment
- VII. Reanalysis of interrogative intonation in Palermo Italian
- VIII. Summary and conclusion
- Bibliography