Intonation in European and Brazilian Portuguese

Frota, Sónia; Moraes, João Antônio de

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“…Although the alignment of the leading peak in the neutral accent is not consistently adult-like until 2;00, with a delayed peak relative to the adult pattern, there is still a systematic difference in the alignment of the two accents . In child speech (like in adult speech), this difference is evident even in cases where the nuclear syllable is the last one in the utterance, as shown in Figure 4 (from Frota and Vigário 2008) .…”

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“…In recent work on early intonational development in EP, it was found that the contrast between the neutral and the focus contour is present very early on in the second year of life, and its use is appropriate according to context (Frota and Vigário 2008) . Although the alignment of the leading peak in the neutral accent is not consistently adult-like until 2;00, with a delayed peak relative to the adult pattern, there is still a systematic difference in the alignment of the two accents .…”

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A focus intonational morpheme in European Portuguese: Production and perception

Frota¹

2012

Prosody and Meaning

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Production studies of the intonational signalling of focus in European Portuguese (EP) have shown that focus is expressed by a specific pitch accent type, thus revealing a systematic contrast between nuclear accents associated with different meanings . In declarative utterances, the contrast between the neutral/ broad focus reading and the narrow/contrastive focus reading is essentially realized as an alignment difference: H+L* (neutral accent) and H*+L (focus accent) . A pilot perceptual study using natural stimuli has shown that subjects are able to distinguish between members of neutral/focus minimal pairs and to match them to the appropriate production context . However, the perception of the contrast found in production has not yet been investigated in detail . The present paper revisits the production contrast and investigates its categorical nature using a multiple methodology approach that resorts to semantically motivated tasks . Several experiments tested whether differences in F0 peak and valley alignment would trigger a perceptual change from one meaning to the other, and whether the alignment differences pattern alike in stimuli based on a neutral and a focus sentence . In Experiment 1, stimuli were classified in a context-matching identification task . In Experiment 2, participants rated appropriateness of stimulus to context in a semantic scaling task . Finally, in Experiment 3, pairs of stimuli were discriminated in a context-matching discrimination task . The results of the three experiments provide converging evidence for the distinction between H+L* and H*+L . Moreover, they support the claim that the neutral/focus accent distinction is primarily an alignment contrast phonologically encoded at the pitch accent level . These findings have implications for the understanding of the nature of intonational contrasts, and the discussion about the approaches and methods to define prosodic categories .

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Section: The Production Contrast Revisited: H+l* and H*+lmentioning

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A focus intonational morpheme in European Portuguese: Production and perception

Frota¹

2012

Prosody and Meaning

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“…The variation in the alignment of peak in the rising-falling contour in the varieties from the Center area was reported in previous work. In a recent study (Frota & Moraes, 2016), the association pattern of the rising-falling contour in interrogatives produced by speakers of the Rio de Janeiro variety is not phonologically specified. In our data, the L*+H analysis is adopted.…”

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Chapter 4. The yes-no question contour in Brazilian Portuguese

Castelo¹,

Frota²

2017

Studies on Variation in Portuguese

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The main goal of this paper is to provide a phonological analysis of neutral yes-no questions in Brazilian Portuguese in seven varieties (Paraíba, Sergipe, Bahia, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul), most of them along the Atlantic Coast. The analysis followed the autosegmental-metrical framework (Ladd, 2008), and the P-ToBI system for intonational labeling (Frota et al. 2015a). The distribution of the nuclear contour indicates a geographical continuum, where a rising contour is found in the North and a rising-falling contour in the Center-Southern regions.

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“…PIERREHUMBERT, 1980;LADD, 2008LADD, [1996), apresentando duas melodias principais distintas: vocative chant (L+H* !H%) e low call (L+H* L%). No entanto, cada uma dessas variedades de português utiliza tais melodias, acompanhadas de combinações diferentes de alongamento silábico extra e variação da gama tonal, de forma distinta para expressar o mesmo significado pragmático SILVA, 2011;FROTA et al, 2015;MORAES, 2016).…”

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Bertotti¹,

Alves²,

Florencio³

2019

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Intonation in European and Brazilian Portuguese

Cited by 16 publications

References 23 publications

A focus intonational morpheme in European Portuguese: Production and perception

A focus intonational morpheme in European Portuguese: Production and perception

Chapter 4. The yes-no question contour in Brazilian Portuguese

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